Re: Red Rain

From: George (george_at_wtfiswrongwithyou.com)
Date: 02/01/05 

Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 08:49:28 GMT

<mbass3@Houston.rr.com> wrote in message
news:%NGLd.95493$Ta2.4772@fe2.texas.rr.com...
> Red rain falling in India.
> http://www.indianexpress.com/ie20010806/nat10.html - Aug. 5th, 2001
>
> Indian scientists think that a comet exploded in the atmosphere and carried
> spores to rain clouds.
> http://xxx.lanl.gov/ftp/astro-ph/papers/0310/0310120.pdf - Oct. 5th, 2003.
>
> Is this really possible?

In the mid 1830s in middle Tennessee, a slave reported a strange dark cloud that
appeared in the sky, and soon after it rained blood. The State Geologist of
Tennessee (Gerard Troost), who also happened to be an MD, was in the area at the
time, and after hearing about the incident went to the farm to investigate.
Apparently what happened was that a cow had been picked up by a tornado, turned
to hamburger, and dumped in the field where the slave had been working (hence it
rained blood). True story.

The moral of this story is that things aren't always what they seem. If there
was a storm involved, it could well be that soil from a barren field was wafted
up into the storm by the wind and carried some distance before dropping from the
clouds in the form of rain. That would not only explain the fungus, but also
the other elements that were detected in the water.

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