Red rain could prove that aliens have landed

Guardian Unlimited ^ | Mar 5, 2006

[Hadean]

Amelia Gentleman and Robin McKie Sunday March 5, 2006 The Observer

There is a small bottle containing a red fluid on a shelf in Sheffield University's microbiology laboratory. The liquid looks cloudy and uninteresting. Yet, if one group of scientists is correct, the phial contains the first samples of extraterrestrial life isolated by researchers. Inside the bottle are samples left over from one of the strangest incidents in recent meteorological history. On 25 July, 2001, blood-red rain fell over the Kerala district of western India. And these rain bursts continued for the next two months. All along the coast it rained crimson, turning local people's clothes pink, burning leaves on trees and falling as scarlet sheets at some points.

Investigations suggested the rain was red because winds had swept up dust from Arabia and dumped it on Kerala. But Godfrey Louis, a physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam, after gathering samples left over from the rains, concluded this was nonsense. 'If you look at these particles under a microscope, you can see they are not dust, they have a clear biological appearance.' Instead Louis decided that the rain was made up of bacteria-like material that had been swept to Earth from a passing comet. In short, it rained aliens over India during the summer of 2001.

[CommandoFrank]

A very important question....

Were these aliens Muslim's????

Better yet, perhaps it was a CIA plot to rain pigs blood on the Muslims in an effort to elimate terrorism... I mean, why blow yourself up if you don't get the 72 virgins?????

[Antonello]

How...Pern-ish.

Paging Anne McCaffrey. Time to write a 'Dragonriders of Earth' series.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"One scientist who posted a message on Louis's website described it as 'bullshit'"

Well, if it is, might everything be nice and green come springtime.

[sierrahome]

Sounds to me like some scientist did a mixed load of clothes in the washer with a new red shirt and is looking for a way not to be blamed.

[gitmo]

I seriously doubt you could find rainwater with no DNA present.

[RightWingAtheist]

The reality-based community is going to go wild over this news.

[catpuppy]

Red rain

Damn you, commie rain!

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

[CPOSharky]

An alien moose bit someone's sister.

[socialismisinsidious]

uh, huh. and maggots use to come from rotten meat.

[GreenAccord]

That site is flakier than a shrink-wrapped skid of Kellogg's cereal at Costco.

Like a lot of us here at FR, I venture over there occasionally (OK, I might call it seldomly) to see what is going on in the ant farm. I have never seen that thread area.

<Ace Ventura voice>Alrighty then.</Ace Ventura voice>

[quantim]

I saw recently this production that talked of red rain and snow due to volcanic particle fallout.

The Year Without Summer

[righttackle44]

"Red algae. Algae often grows in rainclouds."

That's what they thought until the alien tripods
emerged from under the ground surface and they
tried to kill Tom Cruise.

WWWWWWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWW-
WWWWWAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

[operation clinton cleanup]

Well, if it is, might everything be nice and green come springtime.

Alien Compost?

[mountn man]

Then there would be DNA in the sample; the article states no DNA was found in the sample.

Being an alien lifeform, maybe they don't have DNA. I think I saw a Star Trek episode with something like tha......... Oh never mind.

[albee]

If they are serious, pehaps you should guide them to this web-site:

http://www.zapatopi.net/afdb/build.html

[layman]

blood-red rain fell over the Kerala district of western India

This is kind of mild stuff compared to the fact that sometimes it rains cats and dogs where I live.

[Thumper1960]

biological material, sans DNA?

Interesting.

[Americanchild]

This is kind of mild stuff compared to the fact that sometimes it rains cats and dogs where I live.

My dad used to always tease us kids about that when we were really little. We had him figured out, but my cousin would always run to the door to see the puppies!

[PatrickHenry]

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