Auctions probably say something about the zeitgeist and the human condition, and if there isn’t a study out there, then there should be. He can really step up there, man. And because at some point everything imaginable on earth had been auctioned off at least once, the auction house Christie’s has also included extraterrestrial items in its program since 2014: Meteorites are now auctioned off once a year, those stone-like chunks from the vastness of space that do not burn up completely when they enter the earth’s atmosphere are and actually reach the bottom.
Almost three years ago, such a meteorite decided to land in Costa Rica, hissed into a garden and smashed through the roof of a kennel. The occupant, a German shepherd, was unharmed, presumably he was not inside the dwelling at the time of the impact. Through the ceiling went to Christies now, surprisingly, not the meteorite itself (it fetched 21,420 US dollars), but that corrugated iron doghouse with the hole in the roof: someone paid a whopping 44,100 US dollars for it, the auction house even had a sale price of up to 300 before that estimated at 000 dollars.
The question remains as to why people like to bid on apparently trivial things so expensively. Maybe he just likes to reach for the stars? Maybe you just have to look at it from the perspective of that Costa Rican dog. The whole thing probably didn’t matter much to him.
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