Thursday, January 12, 2006

Skepticism greets claim of possible alien microbes

"These particles have much similarity with biological cells though they are devoid of DNA," wrote Godfrey Louis and A. Santhosh Kumar of Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam, India, in the controversial paper.

"Are these cell-like particles a kind of alternate life from space?"

The mystery began when the scarlet showers containing the red specks hit parts of India in 2001. Researchers said the particles might be dust or a fungus, but it remained unclear.


"Scarlet showers"? Wait a minute -- is Peter Gabriel behind this?

1 comment:

Mac said...

Ken--

My guess is that this isn't ET life, but some novel form of toxic rain.