Re: Red Rain

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

Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 09:06:34 GMT

<mbass3@Houston.rr.com> wrote in message
news:r0ZLd.100323$Ta2.62613@fe2.texas.rr.com...
> This storm then kicked up dust from the earth several times during a two month
> period? It rained red rain several times over a two month period. That doesn't
> seem likely. Did you read the article or are you dismissing it with out
> bothering to read it?

If there is a large enough erea that had been denuded or otherwise plowed for
planting, the wind could pick up dust for quite a while, yes. Epecially if it
had been dry for some time beforehand. Another option is that the dust came
from a distance. Dust from China and the Sahara rains down on Florida every
year. The atrmosphere can be quite dusty, in fast. Yes I read the article.
You asked for opinions. This is mine. Take it or leave it.

> "George" <george@wtfiswrongwithyou.com> wrote in message
> news:poHLd.42036$eT5.3324@attbi_s51...
>>
>> <mbass3@Houston.rr.com> wrote in message
>> news:%NGLd.95493$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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