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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. WTH Is Going On Here? by duerra · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What the heck is with Slashdot and all the FUD today? Reports of implanting immigrants with RFID, fears of OSS being killed off because of liability for software bugs, and now alien life arriving to earth via a comet from some crazy scientist who refuses to think it could possibly be explained any more rationally? This article doesn't even give any details of proof whatsoever that this could even POSSIBLY be valid.

    Jeezus... I'm just as tinfoil-hat wary as any other slashdot regular, but the reports this afternoon are getting kind of ridiculous.

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  2. J-E-N-O-V-A! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Then someone summons a meteor.

  3. red rain? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    peter gabriel should sue...

  4. Re:War Of The Worlds in reverse? by Xzzy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well at least this version won't get morphed into a 3rd rate Tom Cruise action movie.

    So it can't be all bad.

  5. Re:It's the /. downward spiral by denis-The-menace · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    One of 2 things is going on:
    1-The /. Editors are more picky than even and rejecting other more interesting stories. (Zonk posted about 8 stories yesterday!)

    OR

    2-The /. Editors have little to choose from in terms of submitted stories and are scraping the bottom of the barrel. (Heck, I don't bother to post any more)

    It's the downward spiral of /.
    Fewer posted stories, fewer reasons to comeback to see new stories (and the ads...)
    It might seem to be a slow week on Slashdot but stories fly on Digg.
    No amount of cosmetic surgery on ./ will fix that.

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  6. Re:War Of The Worlds in reverse? by tibike77 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Been there, done that... MI2 :P

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  7. Re:Let me be first to say this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You first.