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Boarsbreath
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posted 05 March 2006 07:28 PM      Profile for Boarsbreath   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
...unfortunately, they're microbial. But hoo boy, it's a start....

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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


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Nanuq
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posted 05 March 2006 07:44 PM      Profile for Nanuq   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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Two months is too long for it to have been wind-borne dust, he says.

Two months of fallout from a single cometary event? Unlikely.


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anne cameron
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posted 05 March 2006 10:10 PM      Profile for anne cameron     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Jesus, maybe Paul Hellyer is right!

And ain't that a scarey thought.


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Ross J. Peterson
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posted 05 March 2006 10:47 PM      Profile for Ross J. Peterson     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
The red liquid is a red-herring friends. Deconstruct. Deconstruct. -=-
Something weird happens in a colonial land. Only the white coats of the Imperial Order have the brains or the science to figure it out.
The answer to the mysterious affliction of the benighted natives lies in the hands of the Great White Microbe Hunter.
And if the story turns out to be true? Only Crocodile Dundee and Anne know.

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anne cameron
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posted 06 March 2006 12:42 AM      Profile for anne cameron     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
No, Ross, honest! I don't know! but I'm sure there's a conspiracy theory somewhere in my thick file folder of such which will shed a bit of light on it.

Red? Liquid? Over a period of a couple of months?

Beam it down, Scotty.
Aye , Captain.


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Mandos
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posted 06 March 2006 02:48 AM      Profile for Mandos   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
These are spores resultant from the recent intergalactic valentine's day bacchanale.
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skdadl
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posted 06 March 2006 09:07 AM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 

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Boarsbreath
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posted 06 March 2006 09:23 PM      Profile for Boarsbreath   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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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obscurantist
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posted 06 March 2006 09:25 PM      Profile for obscurantist     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Thread started here, dammit! Why does no one ever listen to me? Why why why?
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MartinArendt
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posted 07 March 2006 01:41 AM      Profile for MartinArendt     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Mandos:
These are spores resultant from the recent intergalactic valentine's day bacchanale.

In other words...mating aliens?


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