Microbes from Space?

[JamesDillon]

I hardly know what to make of this; does anyone know anything more about the story?

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.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/06/02/red.rain/index.html

Assuming the guy's description of what these things are doing is accurate (i.e., they lack DNA but readily reproduce in 600-degree water), none of the government's alternative explanations sound very plausible.

 

[rex]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_rain_in_Kerala

 

[RandFan]

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