Is It Raining Aliens? - Popular Science
Blood rain in India? Sounds like something out of the National Enquirer - but here’s an article in Popular science about it.
Excerpt:
Specifically, Louis has isolated strange, thick-walled, red-tinted cell-like structures about 10 microns in size. Stranger still, dozens of his experiments suggest that the particles may lack DNA yet still reproduce plentifully, even in water superheated to nearly 600?F. (The known upper limit for life in water is about 250?F.) So how to explain them? Louis speculates that the particles could be extraterrestrial bacteria adapted to the harsh conditions of space and that the microbes hitched a ride on a comet or meteorite that later broke apart in the upper atmosphere and mixed with rain clouds above India. If his theory proves correct, the cells would be the first confirmed evidence of alien life and, as such, could yield tantalizing new clues to the origins of life on Earth.
Link to Article (Popular Science)
Thanks Trav/s for the link.
Trevor said,
06.07.06 at 11:18 am
What an interesting article. Makes you wonder what future life form will use this event as a seed.
Trevor
beesucker said,
06.07.06 at 12:03 pm
Hi Trevor! Welcome to AP. Maybe these are like space stem cells. Maybe they create a DNA structure based on their enviroment over time.