This just in, Red Aliens in India

CNN (June 06)
As bizarre as it may seem, the sample jars brimming with cloudy, reddish
rainwater in Godfrey Louis's laboratory in southern India may hold,
well, aliens.

In April, Louis, a solid-state physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University,
published a paper in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Astrophysics
and Space Science in which he hypothesizes that the samples -- water
taken from the mysterious blood-colored showers that fell sporadically
across Louis's home state of Kerala in the summer of 2001 -- contain
microbes from outer space.

Specifically, Louis has isolated strange, thick-walled, red-tinted
cell-like structures about 10 microns in size. Stranger still, dozens of
his experiments suggest that the particles may lack DNA yet still
reproduce plentifully, even in water superheated to nearly 600 degrees
Fahrenheit . (The known upper limit for life in water is about 250
degrees Fahrenheit .)

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.

"Twang - twang" <damodara@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:11394-4645B121-144@storefull-3238.bay.webtv.net...
> CNN (June 06)
> As bizarre as it may seem, the sample jars brimming with cloudy, reddish
> rainwater in Godfrey Louis's laboratory in southern India may hold,
> well, aliens.
>
> In April, Louis, a solid-state physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University,
> published a paper in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Astrophysics
> and Space Science in which he hypothesizes that the samples -- water
> taken from the mysterious blood-colored showers that fell sporadically
> across Louis's home state of Kerala in the summer of 2001 -- contain
> microbes from outer space.
>
> Specifically, Louis has isolated strange, thick-walled, red-tinted
> cell-like structures about 10 microns in size. Stranger still, dozens of
> his experiments suggest that the particles may lack DNA yet still
> reproduce plentifully, even in water superheated to nearly 600 degrees
> Fahrenheit . (The known upper limit for life in water is about 250
> degrees Fahrenheit .)
>
> 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.
>

This is some story Damo - it would prove that life does exist in space.
If bacteria can exist - then so can THE BORG eh??? !!!
BTW they miss you on OBM.

On 12 May, 13:20, damod...@webtv.net (Twang - twang) wrote:
> CNN (June 06)
> As bizarre as it may seem, the sample jars brimming with cloudy, reddish
> rainwater in Godfrey Louis's laboratory in southern India may hold,
> well, aliens.
>
> In April, Louis, a solid-state physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University,
> published a paper in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Astrophysics
> and Space Science in which he hypothesizes that the samples -- water
> taken from the mysterious blood-colored showers that fell sporadically
> across Louis's home state of Kerala in the summer of 2001 -- contain
> microbes from outer space.
>
> Specifically, Louis has isolated strange, thick-walled, red-tinted
> cell-like structures about 10 microns in size. Stranger still, dozens of
> his experiments suggest that the particles may lack DNA yet still
> reproduce plentifully, even in water superheated to nearly 600 degrees
> Fahrenheit . (The known upper limit for life in water is about 250
> degrees Fahrenheit .)
>
> 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.

are the microbes consciious, and if so, can we communicate with them?

-- kez

Did you see "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers"? The 1978 version
with Donald Sutherland is the best. That's my favorite movie.
In Christianity we are supposed to let God take over our minds and
bodies. But, we have to work at it. Wouldn't it be nice if God could
just take over as easy as those alien seeds in "The Invasion of the Body
Snatchers". I'd take one of those grex epilobia pods, put it in a pot
next to my bed, and drop off into one of my narcoleptic sleeps and my
troubles would be over. I just read in here a while ago that narcolepsy
is the schozophrenia next to catatonic schizophrenia?

On 13 May, 11:55, gellie...@webtv.net (Miguel Lahunkun) wrote:
> Did you see "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers"? The 1978 version
> with Donald Sutherland is the best. That's my favorite movie.
> In Christianity we are supposed to let God take over our minds and
> bodies. But, we have to work at it. Wouldn't it be nice if God could
> just take over as easy as those alien seeds in "The Invasion of the Body
> Snatchers". I'd take one of those grex epilobia pods, put it in a pot
> next to my bed, and drop off into one of my narcoleptic sleeps and my
> troubles would be over. I just read in here a while ago that narcolepsy
> is the schozophrenia next to catatonic schizophrenia?

i'm damned if i'm letting some stinking triffid beat me at
bodyswapping

have you ever swapped bodies? i think swapping bodies with a snail
would be the most peaceful experience

munch munch slime slime crunch cruch oh no bad luck sqashed

-- kez

Slugs are usually nicer type entities then snails that carry shells
around.

For one thing, I discovered that certain garden slugs will climb UP the
side of a beer and can and IN to the lip and drown in the beer.
Its true, they run to the beer and wind up drowning in it.
Tell me slugs ain't rip roaring party animals?

If you accidently step on one which has passed out on the garden path
they don't go crunch. They are far too squishy to go "crunch".