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Alien Rain Over India
tintinaujapon writes "The Observer is reporting that scientists may have found the first evidence of panspermia, the idea promoted by Hoyle (among others) that life on earth was seeded from space, in samples of a strange rain which fell over India for two months in 2001. To quote the article: "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."" This is a continuation of a story two months back or so.
Run for cover!!!!!
If you've read the book, you'd know that the movie version of 2001 uses Jupiter rather than Saturn as described in the book. The more I watch it, the more it makes sense that Jupiter is the correct planet and Saturn just doesn't quite fit. If you look at the space ship (the one with HAL and Dave), it looks like a single sperm and it's flying towards the giant egg Jupiter. We humans are performing panspermia right in our own solar system!
It's pretty fucking deep, and if you're on mushrooms, the hour long warp scene makes total sense.
But realistically, if we can pollinate other planets with our germs, then it seems more than likely that other planets could eject matter which eventually cross pollinates with us. The question is whether something like that could survive in the harsh radiation of space. There are obviously some bacteria that could make the trip, but how common are these extremophiles? Probably not as extreme as sending up a sperm ship to penetrate Jupiter's Big Red Dot and impregnate it with our space baby.
There is a small bottle containing a red fluid on a shelf in Sheffield University's microbiology laboratory.
Is that like a ship in a bottle?
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Good thing my tinfoil hat is waterproof. Let's see those alien rain bugs infest my brain now!
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We know this because we've discovered everything on Earth already. We ran this through our big database of shit on Earth thingy and it came up negative.
But I keep 'vials' of amber fluid in my fridge that came down from the sky on a plane. Truly a gift from the Carlton United Brewery gods.
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It is blood and Han Solo got to them first. We can all take it easy now.
Common, at least try to try.
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thank God the internet isn't a human right.
More likely to be some kind of alien biological weapon. Obviously, the aliens have
read HG Wells' War of the Worlds and are making sure we get wiped out first. Of course,
it's the Chickens they should be after. H5N1 is much bigger threat to alien life forms
than the common cold.
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Someone had to say it...
It appears that something similar occurred over Florida mid-December.
Here's the article
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It would be nice if these samples had been collected in the correct manner
You see people, this is why I've set up a petition to fund an army of scientists which will be deployed at one-meter intervals to cover the entire earth! In case anything interresting ever happens, we'll have qualified people with the right equipment right there to take samples and measurments.
And they said I was being unrealistic... the FOOLS!
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if they are mamallian red blood cells, how did the clouds get seeded with them int he first place?
When they triggered the improbability drive, a houseplant was converted into a whale...
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No, it can't be bullshit because I've got loads of that already and it's dark brown.
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