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So Kerala was repeatedly hit by projectiles from space over a span of months, producing a red rain of alien life. But nowhere else was. As the earth spun on i
by jonhendry 16y ago
So Kerala was repeatedly hit by projectiles from space over a span of months, producing a red rain of alien life.
But nowhere else was.
As the earth spun on its axis. And the earth moved around the sun.
The space-spores kept landing on Kerala.
Right. How does that work, exactly?
- prodigal_erik 16y agoRelativity tells us that a frame of reference in which both the sun and the rest of the earth orbit Kerala is equally valid.
- andrewmu 16y agoI don't believe this is the case for rotation.
- superk 16y agoMore speculation... but if a comet exploded in the upper atmosphere these microparticles could have been trapped up there for while. Still would expect winds and such to spread them around...
- anigbrowl 16y agoThe hypothesis is that the rainfall followed from a single meteoric event, which preceded the first 'red rainfall' by a few hours, with greatest concentrations of red material in the 10 days afterward. Meteors burn up in the mesophere, about 40 miles above the earth's surface. There is weather up there, but not the normal wind patterns that we are used to. There are standing waves and strange weather phenomena like notilucent clouds up there that we don't fully understand; also, some gasses separate there, impossible at the higher temperature and pressures which we are used to. A trail of dust debris from an incoming meteor may take much longer to dissipate in the mesosphere than a cloud of the same size lower down.
- jonhendry 16y ago" A trail of dust debris from an incoming meteor may take much longer to dissipate in the mesosphere than a cloud of the same size lower down." Making it even less likely that it would all land in the same place. Adding unusual atmospheric phenomena on top of everything else just makes this more and more absurd.
- anigbrowl 16y agoIt didn't all land in the same place. The 2006 paper mentioned upthread documents 124 separate reports, spread along a path over 300 miles in length down the coastline of India's Kerala province. Nor am I not suggesting any unusual atmospheric phenomena; I'm pointing out that that part of the atmosphere is known to differ substantially from lower altitudes. Multiple interacting tides, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_tide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_tide