Alien Rain Over India?

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<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1723913,00.html">observer.guardian.co.uk/w...13,00.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Red rain could prove that aliens have landed<br><br>Amelia Gentleman and Robin McKie<br>Sunday March 5, 2006<br>The Observer<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>from a comment on slashdot:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/science/06/03/06/1247207.shtml">science.slashdot.org/scie...7207.shtml</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>The story has got the front page of the NewScientist this week (no doubt where the origional interest started), a publication i trust far more than and newspaper. In that article the scientist makes the (previously unpublished) claim that:<br><br>...<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>[if noone can prove what it is] someone will have to verify the observation that Louis [the scientist] made whicheven he finds astonishing: that the cells replicate. In earlier unpublished papers, Louis says he cultured the red rain cells in unconventional nutrients, such as cedar wood oil, and showed that these DNA devoid mcrobes divide happily at a temperature of 300oC. Louis admits he left these claims out of his latest paper because he thought they would be considered "too exaordinary"</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->(NewScientist 4th March 2006)<br><br>Non DNA based replication would seem like pretty good evidence for alien life.... if you believe him.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>this is the article but one needs a subscription<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/mg18925411.100">www.newscientistspace.com...925411.100</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>When aliens rained over India<br>Premium<br>Exclusive<br>Was the bizarre red rain that fell over India over two months in 2001 actually alien microbes that hitched a ride to Earth on a comet? Just maybe.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>the scientists website with links to his original research paper:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://education.vsnl.com/godfrey/">education.vsnl.com/godfrey/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>