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illustration). Raining red in India. Traces from Aliens? © Travel Explorations.
Finally is E.T. under the Microscope for seriously scientific work?
Scientists work now further to identify the unusual particles isolated
from India's mysterious red rainwater.
In April (2006), Louis, a solid-state physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University,
published a paper in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Astrophysics and
Space Science. He reported that the samples, taken from the mysterious
blood-coloured showers that fell sporadically across Louis's home state of
Kerala in the summer of 2001, contain microbes from outer space.
Read more on Popular Science:
Raining
Aliens.
Louis and Wickramasinghe are planning further
experiments to test the cells for specific carbon isotopes. If the results fall
outside the norms for life on Earth, it would be a powerful new evidence for
Louis's idea, despite he doubt it. Time will show!
Stein Morten Lund, 29 May 2006