The Net is beginning to simmer with stories about the weird "red rain." Could this be unequivocal evidence of ET life?
Is mysterious 'red rain' first evidence of life in space?
Amazingly, according to Dr Louis, they seem to be able to split and replicate, despite apparently containing no DNA -- the chemical reproductive code which is common to all life on Earth.
For this and other reasons, Dr Louis and his collaborator, Santhosh Kumar, one of his research students at the Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam, Kerala, have rejected all the explanations so far offered for an Earthly origin.
(Via The Anomalist.)
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Since the "red rain" happened in the summer of 2001 (just around the time of 9/11 -- interesting synchronicity there!) I'm wondering if Spielberg didn't get the idea for the blood-red vines that the alien invaders in "War of the Worlds" spread across the New Jersey landscape?
from this incident? (To complete my sentence!)
The red vines in War of the Worlds were part of the original story.
This rain is fascinating, but what bothers me is the concept that a slurry of alien biologicals would fall upon the Earth in a "rain". We're not talking about trace amounts here, we're talking about this stuff pouring from the sky...
It seems to be me more of a spawning vector. This was not one or two microbial hitchhikers.
The red vines in War of the Worlds were part of the original story.
Thanks, dominus. I read the original Wells novel long, long ago and had forgotten that part. Re the red rain itself, here's a somewhat less credulous take on this "research news."
Red Rain
I seriously doubt the story can be taken at face value as providing any real evidence for the theory of microbes from space. The anomalous (and classically "Fortean") phenomenon itself is interesting but, frankly, I seriously doubt that this is the real explanation for it.
There you go, the perfect scenario... no saucers, no alien monsters, just good ol' biological warfare designed to kill us all...
(Im just speaking hypothetically here).
Would be pretty cheap too for the aliens!
Jon