For the past two weeks, Dr Wainwright has been examining some of the billions of mysterious particles which fell in a series of “red rains” over the south-west Indian state of Kerala between July and September 2001.
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It has been proposed the particles that have the rain its colour are life forms from outer space – and if that is true, it raises the possibility that life arrived on this planet in the same way and life on any other planet is likely to be related to us.
The theory is supported in a new report by Indian physicist Godfrey Louis, who has been working on the red dirt and its possible origins for five years.
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Amazingly, according to Dr Louis, they seem to be able to split and replicate, despite apparently containing no DNA – the chemical reproductive code which is common to all life on Earth.
Update: Popular Science