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That mood when we use human ingenuity and determination to do cool shit and learn more about the universe rather than liquify brown children for the sake of billionaire pedocannibals

Yes, but you have to keep the scale of all of this in context. A direct hit would be like dropping a rock from space and hitting a random, specific baby fish in the Atlantic Ocean. It's almost certainly more likely that you get hit by lighting during your life.

As she should be. This was her excitement over the astronauts seeing flashes from micrometeorite impacts, which is so freaking cool. It's been such a pleasure to see Dr. Kelsey Young's passion for science during this mission.

On the Moon. Think of it like a shooting star on Earth, it just has no atmosphere to burn up in so it hits the surface at full speed instead.