From July 25 to September 23, 2001, red rain sporadically fell on the southern Indian state of Kerala. (wikipedia entry)
Louis Godfrey analysed the rain that fell and observed that "no evidence of sand or dust. Instead, the rain water was filled with red cells that look remarkably like conventional bugs on Earth. What was strange was that Louis found no evidence of DNA in these cells which would rule out most kinds of known biological cells"
He published this in 2006 to the peer-reviewed journal Astrophysics and Space.
His latest submission on 29 Aug 2010 furthers his previous observations in that "the cells clearly reproduce at a temperature of 121 degrees C. "Under these conditions daughter cells appear within the original mother cells and the number of cells in the samples increases with length of exposure to 121 degrees C," they say. By contrast, the cells are inert at room temperature.
That makes them highly unusual, to say the least. The spores of some extremophiles can survive these kinds of temperatures and then reproduce at lower temperatures but nothing behaves like this at these temperatures, as far as we know."
In short, something looking like red rain fell in India in 2001, this "stuff" lacks DNA yet still reproduce plentifully which goes against life as we know it now.
Has alien life been found?
Louis Godfrey analysed the rain that fell and observed that "no evidence of sand or dust. Instead, the rain water was filled with red cells that look remarkably like conventional bugs on Earth. What was strange was that Louis found no evidence of DNA in these cells which would rule out most kinds of known biological cells"
He published this in 2006 to the peer-reviewed journal Astrophysics and Space.
His latest submission on 29 Aug 2010 furthers his previous observations in that "the cells clearly reproduce at a temperature of 121 degrees C. "Under these conditions daughter cells appear within the original mother cells and the number of cells in the samples increases with length of exposure to 121 degrees C," they say. By contrast, the cells are inert at room temperature.
That makes them highly unusual, to say the least. The spores of some extremophiles can survive these kinds of temperatures and then reproduce at lower temperatures but nothing behaves like this at these temperatures, as far as we know."
In short, something looking like red rain fell in India in 2001, this "stuff" lacks DNA yet still reproduce plentifully which goes against life as we know it now.
Has alien life been found?
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