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Alien Bacteria May Have Landed in India

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the quite-the-little-travelers dept.

coastal984 writes "CNN & Popular Science are reporting that a scientist in India believes he may have discovered alien life in water collected from a unusually colored rainstorm. From the article: 'So how to explain them? Louis speculates that the particles could be extraterrestrial bacteria adapted to the harsh conditions of space and that the microbes hitched a ride on a comet or meteorite that later broke apart in the upper atmosphere and mixed with rain clouds above India.'"

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  1. Popular Science article is rather sparse... by TripMaster+Monkey · · Score: 3, Informative


    Much more detail about this phenomenon can be found here and here.

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  2. Continuation of earlier /. stories... by GillBates0 · · Score: 3, Informative
    It should be noted (atleast in the new Slashdot "Related Story" section) that this is a continuation of these two earlier stories published on /. earlier this year.

    It would also be fruitful to mention that that Google turns up these stories with the most obvious of keywords: alien rain India site:slashdot.org.

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  3. Re:WTH Is Going On Here? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you read the article, it says even the scientist himself is skeptical of the idea. I think he is just throwing it out as a possibility, and it's being exaggerated by the reporters, as it makes for an interesting headline.

  4. They were algae spores by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wikipedia article:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_rain_of_Kerala