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Raining Extraterrestrial Microbes in Kerala?

jdfox writes "World Science is reporting on a controversial paper to be published shortly in the peer-reviewed research journal Astrophysics and Space Science, describing a strange red rain that fell in India in 2001, shortly after a meteor airburst event in the area. The authors posit that the red particles found in the raindrops may be extraterrestrial microbes. The authors' last two papers on the subject were unpublished: this published paper is more cautious. The paper can be viewed online, and should obviously be considered in context. More info on the 'panspermia' hypothesis can be found at Wikipedia."

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  1. Great. Space herpes. by Unknown+Poltroon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just what we needed.

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  2. Oh That Intelligent Designer... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Spreading his Glorious seed.

    Case closed! Who wants lunch?

  3. Pern? by IdolizingStewie · · Score: 4, Funny

    At least it's not Thread.

  4. Venus by TheBlairMan · · Score: 5, Funny

    It was just Venus' time of the month, and it made it's way through space to reach us here.

  5. Nonsense by quantaman · · Score: 4, Funny

    This human researcher is clearly incorrect.

    The red particles that landed in sector omega-3 were obviously not a virus know as MindGobblers designed to manipulate the portions of your puny brains involved with sensory reception effectivly allow us to transform you into a slave race.

    I suggest you fellow humans all make bad jokes about human researcher and realize his findings are not true.

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  6. Intelligent Design by liangzai · · Score: 3, Funny

    This could be the ultimate proof the ID camp has been looking for... God jerking off, spreading his seed, instilling life into the lifeless soil. The Beloved Gardener in the Heavenly Paradise Cometh unto us.