--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Chivukula <chivukula.ravi@...> wrote: > > This is a microscopic view of the mysterious "red rain" that fell in > Kerala, India in 2012. > > Scientists still can't explain its makeup -- or what turned it red. It's > not algae, not blood...but appears to be a replicating organism with no > DNA. So is it alien? All researchers know for now is that it's > unexplainable.
"In November 2001, commissioned by the Government of India's Department of Science & Technology, the Center for Earth Science Studies (CESS) and the Tropical Botanical Garden and Research Institute (TBGRI) issued a joint report which concluded that: The color was found to be due to the presence of a large amount of spores of a lichen-forming alga belonging to the genus Trentepohlia. Field verification showed that the region had plenty of such lichens. Samples of lichen taken from Changanacherry area, when cultured in an algal growth medium, also showed the presence of the same species of algae. Both samples (from rainwater and from trees) produced the same kind of algae, indicating that the spores seen in the rainwater most probably came from local sources." Courtesy of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_rain_in_Kerala > > EXCLUSIVE VIDEO of the red rain from "The Unexplained Files" -> > http://bit.ly/19asJsj > > Science Channel hosts a panel at San Diego Comic-Con International. Come to > room 25abc at 7pm to see a sample of the red rain in person! > > > For Ravi: > > Launch me in the sea of Love and let me sail. ~Rumi >
