Crimson rain, alien bacteria
Milton Wainwright, a microbiologist at Sheffield University, is testing samples from one of the strangest events in meteorological history. Starting July 25, 2001, it rained red over the Kerala district (western India), and the rain stayed red for two months. The downfall burned the leaves on trees and turned everyone’s clothing pink. If that wasn’t strange enough, hours before the first ruby drop fell, people heard a loud sonic boom that shook houses in the region. Recent analysis of samples from the incident reveal some curious particles. At 50% carbon, 45% oxygen, with pinches of iron and sodium, they just may be extra-terrestrial biological material. The theory first proposed by Godfrey Louis, physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, is that a piece may have broken off a passing comet and fell towards the coast, which could explain the sonic boom. Many scientists believe that comets may carry organic chemicals and some even suggested that we evolved from microbes that were brought to Earth via comet (Fred Hoyle). So, it’s possible that the weird stuff that made it rain blood was in fact some sort of alien biomatter, absorbed by the clouds as the meteor broke up in the atmosphere, which gave the rain it’s hue and strange properties. There have been other meteorites with organic chemicals, like the one that fell in Murchison, Australia in 1969 with high concentrations of amino acids (c. 100 ppm). Since many comets are largely ice, they can be rich in organic compounds. They may have also created the Earth’s oceans. But now that I’ve soothed you enough, aren’t crashing thunder and rain of blood things that happen on the first day of the Apocalypse?
Red rain could prove that aliens have landed, Guardian.co.uk
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