First confirmed evidence of alien life

[whap2005]

Check out this ariticle just posted on CNN.com. Could this be true? Has anyone else heard about this yet?

 

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/06/02/red.rain/index.html

 

I'm trying to find more info on this event: Here are a couple articles:

 

 

http://www.ufoindia.org/article_red_rain.htm

 

http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=123952

 

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1723913,00.html

 

Here is a link from World Science that offer's skepticism:

 

http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/060104_specksfrm1.htm

[silkworm]

They lack DNA?

 

I wonder how he's going to find support of their origin.

 

Also, I make the argument that deep sea life that isn't part of the ecosystem that is based on solar energy and are instead geothermal are alien life, although on the same planet. I've never heard of them not having DNA though.

 

I'm wondering what will come of this.

[Forensicmad]

IF they do turn out to be of extra-terrestrial origin, i want to be one of the first people to say:

I KNEW IT!

[bascule]

This is old news. And going from "Unexplained red rain" to ALIENS!!!!! is a non-sequitur fallacy

[Klaynos]

http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/mg19025453.100.html

 

It's certainly interesting...

[Cloud]

It's chubby rain!!!

 

"Oh no - the aliens are coming, RUN"

Coming to a theatre near you

[whap2005]

I managed to find Dr Godfey Louis's website so you can read his findings directly.

 

 

http://education.vsnl.com/godfrey/

 

Check out this link to an analysis done on the particles a few days ago..

 

http://www.astrobiology.cf.ac.uk/redrain.html

[Dr. Dalek]

I hate to nit-pick but if it has no DNA it is not really Bacteria, it needs some other designation.

(Just kidding, I love to nit-pick)

 

It's chubby rain!!!

 

"Oh no - the aliens are coming' date=' RUN"

Coming to a theatre near you[/quote']

 

"Space may be the final frontier but it is made in Hollywood’s basement." -Red Hot Chili Peppers.

 

I would love to believe that these are alien organisms or even some exotic new form of life! I visited his website, and it seems as if he is in to physics not biology. If so I'd have to question his results I'll do more research.

[Kermit]

Next they'll call in the motherships and enslave our earth women, cause heck, it's lonely out there.

 

Though one has to picture the size difference..

[SkepticLance]

Sorry to disappoint you.

This has been followed by New Scientist magazine, and the latest shows it to be of definite terrestrial origin. Something picked by meteorological phenomena and re-deposited. The spread was over too small an area to be remotely possibly of extra-terrestrial origin.

[Mokele]

I poked around online a bit, and apparently some sent to a fungal spore expert were immediately identified as a fairly common spore. This is why you give things like this to biologists.

 

Mokele

[H2SO4]

lame i was realy hoping that the cells would rapidly multiply and kill us all

[Dr. Dalek]

Sorry to disappoint you.

This has been followed by New Scientist magazine' date=' and the latest shows it to be of definite terrestrial origin. Something picked by meteorological phenomena and re-deposited. The spread was over too small an area to be remotely possibly of extra-terrestrial origin.[/quote']

 

I poked around online a bit' date=' and apparently some sent to a fungal spore expert were immediately identified as a fairly common spore. This is why you give things like this to biologists.

 

Mokele[/quote']

 

Disappointing but not unexpected, . . .

 

I would love to believe that these are alien organisms or even some exotic new form of life! I visited his website, and it seems as if he is in to physics not biology. If so I'd have to question his results I'll do more research.

 

I did some research and the Guy who is making the claims on alien life is a Physics reader. If he were a Professor of Biology he may have come to a more sound conclusion.

 

What does a Physics Reader do anyway, I can guess his job has to do with physics and reading, but how do you get paid for that? And why did he come to a conclusion involving Astrobiology research if he has no credentials in Biology?

[ecoli]

This is old news. And going from "Unexplained red rain" to ALIENS!!!!! is a non-sequitur fallacy

 

just what I was thinking. Should be interesting how this turns out, though.

[SmallIsPower]

Sure looks like an alien to me

[AzurePhoenix]

hehe, cute, but he seems ethereal to me, like an extraterrestrial ghost