Raining Extraterrestrial Microbes in Kerala?

jdfox writes "World Science is reporting on a controversial paper to be published shortly in the peer-reviewed research journal Astrophysics and Space Science, describing a strange red rain that fell in India in 2001, shortly after a meteor airburst event in the area. The authors posit that the red particles found in the raindrops may be extraterrestrial microbes. The authors' last two papers on the subject were unpublished: this published paper is more cautious. The paper can be viewed online, and should obviously be considered in context. More info on the 'panspermia' hypothesis can be found at Wikipedia."

Great. Space herpes.

[Unknown Poltroon]

Just what we needed.

Oh That Intelligent Designer...

[Anonymous Coward]

Spreading his Glorious seed.

Case closed! Who wants lunch?

Pern?

[IdolizingStewie]

At least it's not Thread.

sing along~

[dartarrow]

it's raining spacemen, Alleluia it's raining spacemen! Ramen!

First ...

[Anonymous Coward]

Contact!

Venus

[TheBlairMan]

It was just Venus' time of the month, and it made it's way through space to reach us here.

I for one ....

[qwave54]

welcome our new red extraterrestrial microbe overlords!

Ah well ......

Nonsense

[quantaman]

This human researcher is clearly incorrect.

The red particles that landed in sector omega-3 were obviously not a virus know as MindGobblers designed to manipulate the portions of your puny brains involved with sensory reception effectivly allow us to transform you into a slave race.

I suggest you fellow humans all make bad jokes about human researcher and realize his findings are not true.

Quick, geeks

[phorm]

Look for the woman infected with an alien micro-organism that gives her the powerful urge to mate quickly in order to produce her world-dominating alien-human crossbid progeny. Of course, she'll probably kill you afterwards, but it's all the change some of you will get before you die anyhow!

Re:Red particles...

[Basehart]

"Perhaps the meteor smashed into a flock of birds?"

Didn't this happen back in the 80's?

Oh wait, that was a flock of seagulls.

(OK, I'm sorry already, jeez)

Good grief - more stuff sent to India

[Anonymous Coward]

Now even the aliens are sending microbe jobs to India! Where does it end? Not at the atmosphere, apparently. Somewhere in space, some alien GE executive overlord has gotten his or her bonus for the year. Oh well, the quality will suck, quality assurance will suck, they'll miss their deadline for taking over the planet, and the project will fail.

I guess we're safe.

This could be more serious than we thought...

[titzandkunt]

I was going to post a longer comment, but two Marine officers have arrived at my house in an unmarked car. All they said was:

"Dr Titzandkunt? There's been a fire."

Gotta go!

T&K.

...a clue for the clueless:clicky clicky [imdb.com]

Intelligent Design

[liangzai]

This could be the ultimate proof the ID camp has been looking for... God jerking off, spreading his seed, instilling life into the lifeless soil. The Beloved Gardener in the Heavenly Paradise Cometh unto us.

Re:First ...

[Anonymous Coward]

Great. Our first contact with the Great Beyond is Space Spunk. Wonder what Jodie Foster would make of that one?

A great target.

we have just entered a distinct era in history

[lordholm]

Both warp drives and aliens the same week. It should be clear that the alien bacteria detected the warp drive research and decided to make contact, unfortunately the all perished when their space ship blew up over India.

Now, we will never know what they wanted, and their friends will believe that we shot them down...

Re:Contradicts Intelligence

[Anonymous Coward]

?? The ID people understand the universe perfectly!

Their is a mountain of scientific evidence that supports ID, and very little scientific evidence to support science. The evidence cleary shows that god created earth, and everyone on it in less then a week. It also shows that everyone on this planet is related (and thus comiting sin every time they have sex), that god likes incest (he created eve from adam, so technecally, eve is adams daughter), and that god is so evil he will kill you, and your family if you dont pray to him. Furthermore, rain is really god pissing, and the universe is held together by evil religous terrorists called vaticinions. This particle in the universe is why the universe doesnt fall apart, and why scientist can never understand the universe. The vaticinion particles can only be seen by true believers.

Luckely for all of us, this god seems to have died out a few thousand years ago, proving that god really was just a alien, and that the religions his race spawned are evil fanatics for their evil army of galatic war, rape, and piliging.

Re:Sauce

[Attrition_cp]

RAmen.