Isn't this how every sci-fi/horror movie starts? One minute a naive scientist is playing around with something in his lab, the next it's swallowing Cincinnatti... As bizzare as it may seem, the sample jars brimming with cloudy, reddish rainwater in Godfrey Louis's laboratory in southern India may hold, well, aliens.
In April, Louis, a solid-state physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University, published a paper in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Astrophysics and Space Science in which he hypothesizes that the samples--water taken from the mysterious blood-dcolored showed that fell sporadically across Louis's home state of Kerala in the summer of 2001-contain microbes from outer space.
Specifically, Louis has isolated strange, thick-walled, red-tinted cell-like structrues about 10 microns 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 degresst Farenheit. (The known upper limit for life in water is about 250 degrees Farenheit.) I wouldn't worry unless he's found some funny oversized pods on his property, too. Paging Fox Mulder...
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