The Observer is reporting that scientists may have found the first evidence of panspermia, the idea promoted by Hoyle (among others) that life on earth was seeded from space, in samples of a strange rain which fell over India for two months in 2001.
"There is a small bottle containing a red fluid on a shelf in Sheffield University's microbiology laboratory. The liquid looks cloudy and uninteresting. Yet, if one group of scientists is correct, the phial contains the first samples of extraterrestrial life isolated by researchers.""
Read more @ http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1723913,00.html
I am getting Zany Ideas here...will the Microbes grow in our $HOMEly{EARTH} Atmosphere. Can we meet our Extra-Terrestrial Cousins...
Certainly this gives India A Close Encounter Of The Third Kind
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