The recent red rain in Sri Lanka has hit a disharmonious chord, shaking the very assumptions on the formation of life on Earth. It has suddenly awakened our fantasies of the unexplained, our psychic interest in believing that life beyond Earth could be more than a phenomenon; an actual reality. According to Sri Lankan born British astrophysicist and astrobiologist Prof. Chandra Wickramasinghe, it is possible that the heavy red pigmentation in the rain experienced in several parts of the country over the last few weeks is a result of the Earth crossing a comet debris, and meteors which contain life enter our atmosphere and its clouds. What is unique of these red cells is that it contains a life form, whose DNA is not identified as yet. It is said that November is a time when meteor showers frequently occur, and I too remember enthusiastically observing several shoot in the night sky. Incidentally the red rain showers too occurred roughly during the same period. This new "invasion" shakes our long standing belief of life forming and evolving on Earth billions of years ago. Did life come to Earth from outer space? For a believer of God and his Catholic/Christian religious doctrine, life was God's creation. Yet another sector of Buddhists believe that Earth is being visited by aliens, and the only reason that they do not harm us is that Lord Buddha preached all worlds...Which are we to believe? Religious dogma, human scientific proof (limited within human capacity mind you), Big Bang Theory or Darwinian philosophy?
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