by Allison Biederman
According to this article, One group of scientists feel that the small bottle of red fluid that is sitting on a shelf in Sheffield University’s microbiology laboratory, could be signs that aliens have landed. The scientist say that the liquid is cloudy and uninteresting. In this bottle there are left over samples of what is said to be one of the strangest incidents in recent meteorological history.
On July 25, 2001, blood-red rain fell over the Kerala district of western India. It is said that these rain drops continued for about two months. This turned people’s clothes pink, and burned the leaves from trees. Physicist Godfrey Louis at Mahatam Gandhi University in Kottayam felt that after looking under the microscopes, there is no dust present, so past thoughts about it being red due to the winds picking up dust from Arabia are false. He said they have clear biological appearances. He felt that the rain was made up of bacteria-like material that had been swept to Earth from a passing comet.
Louis also felt that it was too long to have dust being blown. One analysis of the rain drops also showed that they were 50 % carbon, 45 % oxygen with traces of sodium and iron. Many other scientists think that Louis is making too great of a leap in connecting his rain with microbes from a comet.
Questions:
1) In your opinion do you think it is possible that these rain drops could indeed be signs that Aliens have landed?
2) If not, what do you think this could be?
