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Whoa, did you guys read this??????????

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/06/02/red.rain/index.html

As bizarre as it may seem, the sample jars brimming with cloudy, reddish rainwater in Godfrey Louis's laboratory in southern India may hold, well, aliens.

In April, Louis, a solid-state physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University, published a paper in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Astrophysics and Space Science in which he hypothesizes that the samples -- water taken from the mysterious blood-colored showers that fell sporadically across Louis's home state of Kerala in the summer of 2001 -- contain microbes from outer space.

Specifically, Louis has isolated strange, thick-walled, red-tinted cell-like structures about 10 microns in size. Stranger still, dozens of his experiments suggest that the particles may lack DNA yet still reproduce plentifully, even in water superheated to nearly 600 degrees Fahrenheit . (The known upper limit for life in water is about 250 degrees Fahrenheit .)

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Apparently we're all going to be invaded by sentient cells!!!! ~gasps!~

Well, if what they say is true, then it just proves what LOGICALLY has been/should have been the truth all along. We *can't* be alone. I dislike the idea that we're the only sentient, higher-function species in any solar system, galaxy, this part of the universe, etc. I just don't think God would have made JUST us razz Why make a huge universe if you'll only seed one planet in one tiny galaxy?

You thinking of Enders Game and its sequels, Uma? Orson Scott Card wrote about an alien race called Buggers - gigantic bugs with a Hive mind and total sentience who attacked Earth in the past and who might attack again. Spoilers: arrow The sequels show that the Buggers weren't all that bad, and shows that humans and the Buggers can live peacefully side by side. ninja

Come to think of it, I think Alan Dean Foster had some bug aliens in his stories that was a nice race of bugs.

Then there's the Tyranids in Warhammer 40000. They evolved when experiments were carried out on humans but they can be really bug-like. They're controlled by the hive mind, they're deployed on a planet, wipe out the enemy (if they can) and then the army along with anything left on the planet is eaten by a wave of ripper swarms.

The theory that bacteria infected the earth with life has long been a plausible one, I have heard the comet theory before this...and it makes sense to me. As for sentient life on other planets...I don't know..life evolves beneath some harsh conditions...it's proven...evolutionists most solid theories trace all life back to the common origin of fungus in it's most expandable form, while figuring that developed from microrganisms that dwelt at the depths of the ocean near volcanic rifts. The things life would have to endure to move from what it was then, to it's higher states now are unimaginable...if we are going through scientific plausability of course...the perfect conditions at the perfect stages....and countless goggles of chances....sentient, however, as we know it, or could percieve it in any range, is a completely different matter all together...certainly there are different levels of sentience, and quantum theory elloquates the possibility of sentience on all levels in all constructs working towards an illustrated goal of reality. yet, physically sentient, as I would define it, non abstract, and messurable by our means...scientifically...on a level our perception would recognize as even close to ours...by the chances and conditions necassary in the scientific realm of thought...this is not likely....the odds are stacked against it...yet certainly..there are enough celestial bodies in the universe to make those numbers imaginably possible. However, the distance to a body that might fit the conditions were life can evolve beyond a bacteria which simply perpetuates itself under the harshest conditions...this distance would be so great that one would assume if a scoiety was to emerge that could garnish the technology to traverse such bounds in a reasonable time that would not require beings to replicate themselves just so there great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandsires could land on this planet, with the whole line living and dying on a space craft in between...this society couldn't be warfaric...it would have to evolve past that....or it would destroy itself with the technology it built far previous to that..much like we will here shortly. This is disgarding any notions of spirituality of course...for the conditions of common ground disscussion....

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