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		<title>Alien Rain?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In news that would be very cool if true, some scientists think that a mysterious red rain that fell in India in 2001 may have contained extra-terrestrial unicelular organisms. Apparently, these cells have been observed to reproduce, even though they don&#8217;t appear to contain any DNA or RNA. Link to Pop-Sci article. Link to Wikipedia [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img style="padding: 1em; float: right;" id="image302" src="http://www.cebidae.com/wp-content/uploads/alien%20rain.thumbnail.jpg" alt="Alien Rain" />In news that would be very cool <em>if</em> true, some scientists think that a mysterious red rain that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_rain_in_Kerala">fell in India in 2001</a> may have <a href="http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/2c21c0f98d07b010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html">contained extra-terrestrial unicelular organisms</a>. Apparently, these cells have been observed to reproduce, even though they don&#8217;t appear to contain any DNA or RNA. <a href="http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/2c21c0f98d07b010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html">Link to Pop-Sci article</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_rain_in_Kerala">Link to Wikipedia article</a>.<br />
 <em>Thanks, <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2006/05/31/popsci_on_possible_m.html">Mark Frauenfelder</a></em>.</p>
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