Dr. Godfrey Louis is a solid-state physicist from Mahatma Gandhi University. In april 2006, he published a paper in the journal Astrophysics and Space Science in which he hypothesized that samples of water taken from "blood-colored" rain collected in his state of Kerala, India in the summer of 2001 contain microbes from outer space.

Specifically, Louis has isolated strange, thick-walled, red-tinted cell-like structures about 10 micrometers 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 ˚F (320 °C). (The known upper limit for life in water is about 250 ˚F or 120 °C.) 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. If his theory proves correct, the cells would be the first confirmed evidence of alien life and, as such, could yield tantalizing new clues to the origins of life on Earth. ^*

See also

• Red rain in Kerala
• Panspermia

External links

• Home Page of Dr. Godfrey Louis
• The Red Rain Phenomenon of Kerala and its Possible Extraterrestrial Origin in Astrophysics and Space Science
• Popular Science – Is It Raining Aliens?

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