Well, it's password protected and I don't feel like forking over $4.95 to read an article. Could you sum up what it says?
Posted by duv2 (Member # 3026) on :
Sorry about this ..didn’t realize the whole thing wasn’t free access This part is free access….. I'VE heard plenty of tales about freak weather that are strange, but nonetheless true. In August 2000, a shower of sprats, dead but conveniently still fresh, fell from the skies onto the English port of Great Yarmouth just after a thunderstorm. A torrent of live toads pelted a Mexican town in June 1997. And in 2001, 50 tonnes of alien life forms rained down from the clouds over India. Actually, I'm not sure that the alien story is true. But it is surprisingly persistent. I first saw it in 2003 in a scientific paper written by Godfrey Louis, a physicist working in the Indian state of Kerala, on the country's southern tip. He described how, during two months in 2001, red rain fell sporadically right across the state. No one could explain it, but after lengthy studies of red particles in the rainwater, Louis came to the extraordinary conclusion that ... …..the article continues to say is that the rain appears to contain red cells that, though they do not contain DNA, they appear to be biological. A form of life previously unknown to science suggests Scientist, who is about to have his finding published in the peer reviewed Astrophysics and Space Science.
The article continues to give a brief history over the persistent theory that life may have been introduced on earth by a meteorite or dust storm.
If someone wants me to email the article to them, I have that option as a subscriber, though I don’t know if there is a limit to how many people I can send the article to.
I’ll be sure not to post something like this again!
But…I don’t know if anyone else subscribes to this magazine or others like it (American scientist, Nature, Science). But I find reading these magazines inspiring, I always get an story idea or a way to flesh out a story from my weekly new scientist read…