July 25, 2001 year in the Indian state of Kerala rain. There would be nothing extraordinary in July, after the monsoon season, but rain was not ordinary. Falling from the sky drops were quite surprising color - were red.

Strange rain What falls from the sky and water, may give rise to sensation and disbelief. Despite repeated confirmation by the researchers of the phenomenon called "flying frogs from the sky and rain, few people really believe in it, that something might fall to the ground from a cloud filled with water. Do not change anything here visible on city streets, bordered with yellow puddles that appear at the end of May and first half of June. Once, when constantly told about the threat acid rain, took it as the first sign of an environmental disaster. Meanwhile the puddles of yellow precipitate is pine pollen from flowers floating in great quantities in the air in May and June's. Not only the pollen falling from the sky. A few years ago in Dalmatia rained frogs sucked into the clouds by a tornado that does not know why there are over one of the lakes. In 1846, Iowa hail the size of chicken eggs. Farmers who have cleared their work around the ice found in barley balls hailstones frozen frogs - alive. In August 2000, a real downpour sprats fell to the English town of Great Yarmouth. The phenomenon of rain falling in Kerala, however, is a different kind. First, the rain poured incessantly for two months, and secondly it has been observed in the area in the shape of an ellipse with a length of 450 km and a width of 150 km, third 85 percent. located in the red substance fell again during the first ten days of torrential rain, fourth in the end "is red 'in the rain turned out to be unidentified cells with chemical composition similar to the biological matter. At the beginning - Panic The state of Kerala is not a place rich in people with university education, so the sample before the red rain were in the hands of competent, their presence on Earth has been interpreted by the local priests of all the varieties of Hinduism. A diagnosis is not prophesied anything good - red rain is the end of the world, for this early. Fortunately, that India is also inhabited by government officials and policemen. You ignored the prophets and strange interpretations of precipitation differently - scientifically. Fell to the ground dust carried by the wind from over the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula, they said. However, this does not dispel all doubts, the question remains - why the dust just fell in July, rather than at the beginning of the monsoon season with earlier? It took the scientists from the School of Theoretical and Applied Physics at the University in Kottayam - Dr. Godfrey Louis and Santhosh Kumar his assistant. They took the effort to verify all the hypotheses trying to explain the phenomenon of red rain. There were really a lot. According to one such theory in the red rain was found the blood of birds killed by propeller aircraft, according to another - the blood of bats, which exploded (sic) as a result of the outbreak of the meteorite (why bats explode when a meteorite falls, the author of the hypothesis failed to explain). There are also suppose that the red color of the rain is the result of the presence of algae spores of the species Trentepoholia. That version was adopted, the Indian government and announced it as the official explanation of a strange phenomenon. Everything would be fine, if not inquisitive physicists mentioned above. They conducted measurements, which clearly showed that the red substance fell to earth in an amount of 50,000 kg - 50 tons. It would therefore be there Trenthepoholia algae spores from all over the northern hemisphere. It did not come out of the question. "This is red" as we mentioned, turned out to be mysterious about the structure of molecules similar to proteins. He stated that Dr. Louis watching the sample of the substance under a microscope. Strange molecule did not contain, however, what used to be on the planet define as the essence of life. There were no DNA. Fantastic hypothesis closest to the truth  From the "strange molecules" to "space molecules' is only one step. Dr. Louis conclusions were as follows: the Earth's atmosphere over the state of Kerala, meteor burst, exploded, and located on the particles traveling from God knows what parts of the cosmos were in the air and fell with the monsoon rain. Particles, as it turned out, consisted of coal - 50 percent. and oxygen - 45 percent., they also contained small amounts of sodium and iron. Dr. Louis also stated that they have the ability to share. Of course, nobody believed in his theory, and in fact almost no one. Indian scientist has found an ally at the University of Cardiff (Wales) in the person of the most famous promoter of the theory, Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe'a. Panspermii theory was born in 1908 in the laboratory, the Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius, who came to the conclusion that life in the universe is carried by comets and meteorites. On these objects are traveling spores of life - single cell organisms, from which begins the evolution of the different globes. Life on Earth evolved in this way - something "planet. This theory was forgotten for years, found it again astronomer Chandra Wickramasinghe and Fred Hoyle in the mid-eighties. Their occurrence does not, however, enjoyed the recognition of the academic community. Today, however, the theory panspermi experiencing a renaissance, it turned out that the interstellar dust in the nuclei of comets and meteorites have been identified complex organic substances. It is the red rain of Kerala became interested microbiologists. Dr Milton Wainwright stated that the molecules are unknown red cells - alive. Lack of DNA does not change anything here, foreign bacteria, do not have to be after all the DNA. After these findings, Dr. Godfrey Louis has ceased to be treated as a charlatan. Its theory was discussed even in the March issue magazine "New Scientist, and in the journal Astrophysics and Space Science. However, there was once reviews skeptics who argue that the state of Kerala crashed military plane, which flew out 50 tons of hydraulic fluids. Seemingly plausible, except that there are no aircraft on board taking up such quantities of this substance. Astrophysicist from Belfast, said Alan Fitzsimmons, indeed, that at a time when there was a red rain, there was no presence of near-Earth comet or meteorite. Do not rule out, however, that "is red" is a cosmic force, which arrived on our planet to transform it. Research on molecules in space are still in progress.