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Topic: They're here! Aliens! Millions of them!
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Boarsbreath
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posted 05 March 2006 07:28 PM
...unfortunately, they're microbial. But hoo boy, it's a start.... quote: 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. 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... Critical to Louis's theory is the length of time the red rain fell on Kerala. Two months is too long for it to have been wind-borne dust, he says. In addition, one analysis showed the particles were 50 per cent carbon, 45 per cent oxygen with traces of sodium and iron: consistent with biological material. Louis also discovered that, hours before the first red rain fell, there was a loud sonic boom that shook houses in Kerala. Only an incoming meteorite could have triggered such a blast, he claims. This had broken from a passing comet and shot towards the coast, shedding microbes as it travelled.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1723913,00.html
From: South Seas, ex Montreal | Registered: Jul 2005
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Boarsbreath
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posted 06 March 2006 09:23 PM
Shocked at the scorn, he returns it in his mind, only more cleverly (trying not to think of the red-headed girl in that cretinous grade nine science class); and he turns again to his Cretures. He knows they are Creatures...spores! Ha! What nonsense...and then, when his head knocks against the desk before him a third time with fatigue, he finally notices. The Cretures are moving, moving to the co-ax, moving along the cable to the universal port and...disappearing.Next morning he was certain. From his simple desk-top the Creatures had found new homes all over their new world. (Even the girl's, he somehow knew that.) Screens the world over were turning red, a glorious fecund red, the colour of life for these Creatures...
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