“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. To quote the article: “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.”"
Panspermia makes a lot of sense to me, after all everything came from space, be it gas, rock or the building blocks of life.
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1 Creation Robot » Close up shots of alien cells found in ‘red rain’ // Mar 12, 2006 at 10:50 PM
[...] Some close up shots of cells within the red rain that fell on a region in India during 2005. I’ve blogged about this rain before and how is lends credence to panspermia. [...]
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