On July 25th 2001 in Kerala India it started to rain, but not the typical rain that world usually watches fall down from the sky. The rain that was falling in India was “red.” According to Godfrey Louis and Santhosh Kumar, “ the red colour of the rainwater is due to the mixing of a particular type of microscopic red particles having the appearance of biological cells. This is confirmed by microscopic examination of the rainwater samples collected from various locations seperated by more than 100 kilometers. “ the redrain particles have an appearance similar to unicelluar organisms, and have a thick cell envelope. During experiments on the redrain cells no nucleus could be found.” Other interesting facts about this redrain water is that its cell-like particles do not have any flagella as found in many algae cells; and the particles are very stable agianst decay over time.” ( Kumar, Louis, 2006). The cell also has a visisble mucus, carbon and oxygen, but no DNA or RNA were found in the redrain cell particles. Theories of the redrain were it came from a meteor falling to the ground and even as far as exterrestial.
Hypothesis: Red Rain can grow and develop.
Experimental group: a single redrain particle left in a sample bottle for 5 days
Control Group: a large amount of redrain particles left in a sample bottle for 5 days
Independent Variable: the presence or absence of growth and development
Dependent variable: the presence of the redrain particles growing after five days
According to my experiment, I think that red rain can develop and grow. After five days the red rain was growing without being with other particles of red rain. I believe that could have occured longer than 60 days after the meteor.
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Red_rain_in_Kerala
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