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Mysterious red cells might be aliens
CNN ^
| June 2, 2006
| Jebediah Reed
Posted on 06/02/2006 4:20:55 PM PDT by RWR8189
As bizarre as it may seem, the sample jars brimming with cloudy, reddish rainwater in Godfrey Louis's laboratory in southern India may hold, well, aliens.
In April, Louis, a solid-state physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University, published a paper in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Astrophysics and Space Science in which he hypothesizes that the samples -- water taken from the mysterious blood-colored showers that fell sporadically across Louis's home state of Kerala in the summer of 2001 -- contain microbes from outer space.
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 degrees Fahrenheit . (The known upper limit for life in water is about 250 degrees Fahrenheit .)
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.
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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alien; callingartbell; extraterrestrial
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To: Paladin2
Yes indeedy:
This could be Hugh! Not to mention Series! : )
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posted on
06/02/2006 4:41:54 PM PDT
by
WestVirginiaRebel
(Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
To: RWR8189
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posted on
06/02/2006 4:43:01 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Triggerhippie
Hahah!!! My bumper sticker says,
KEEP BACK! I CHEW RED MAN!
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posted on
06/02/2006 4:44:06 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Renderofveils
Well, then it's some kind of weirdo heretofore unknown microbe that looks just like red blood cells.
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posted on
06/02/2006 4:45:30 PM PDT
by
Oberon
(As a matter of fact I DO want fries with that.)
To: tet68
What was that man's name that chronicled all the wierd
stuff dropping from the sky? Fort?
Rains of cats! Rains of frogs!
Eye of newt, and pecan logs?
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posted on
06/02/2006 4:46:57 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Oberon
perhaps he just upgraded from the black and white microscope to the new G3000 color microscope? /sarc
To: RWR8189; yankeedame
I ask ya...is this Hollywood material, or is this Hollywood material?With a Theremin soundtrack.
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posted on
06/02/2006 4:50:53 PM PDT
by
aculeus
To: tet68
Charles Fort. He was an interesting character. Learn more
here.
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posted on
06/02/2006 4:53:33 PM PDT
by
WestVirginiaRebel
(Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
To: RWR8189
Cells living on a comet? Does that make sense?
To: SE Mom
"Hmmm..I may have spoken too soon...but in my family they smoked Lucky's...LSMFT!" Lord Save Me From Truman.
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posted on
06/02/2006 4:59:22 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
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posted on
06/02/2006 5:01:33 PM PDT
by
SE Mom
(God Bless those who serve.)
To: RWR8189; PeaceBeWithYou
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posted on
06/02/2006 5:02:46 PM PDT
by
sweetliberty
(Stupidity should make you sterile.)
To: dd5339
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posted on
06/02/2006 5:03:35 PM PDT
by
Vic3O3
(Jeremiah 31:16-17 (KJV))
To: PsyOp; Darksheare; null and void
"I was wondering what that strange pod under my bed was..." Looks like y'all's kind of thread.
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posted on
06/02/2006 5:04:55 PM PDT
by
sweetliberty
(Stupidity should make you sterile.)
To: WestVirginiaRebel
There was also Frank Edwards - "Stranger Than Science".
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posted on
06/02/2006 5:07:05 PM PDT
by
Argus
To: Paladin2
"They look like micro-blobs. Wasn't the blob red too?" No, that was the Killer Tomato. Hahahahahaha!
To: yankeedame
I ask ya...is this Hollywood material, or is this Hollywood material?
He’s in India more like Bollywood
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posted on
06/02/2006 5:13:12 PM PDT
by
grjr21
To: RWR8189
Paging agents Mulder & Scully!
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posted on
06/02/2006 5:18:04 PM PDT
by
Lawdoc
(Our military is the best trained and most humane in the world bar none! God bless them)
To: RWR8189
"... shortly after this article was reported, Mr. Louis mistakenly infected himself with the strange blood cells while showing them to reporters. A final pitcher of Mr. Louis is shown here:"
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posted on
06/02/2006 5:30:10 PM PDT
by
MaDeuce
(Do it to them, before they do it to you! (MaDuce = M2HB .50 BMG))
To: RWR8189
It has begun.
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posted on
06/02/2006 5:37:45 PM PDT
by
heights
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