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LWR
Joined: 25 Apr 2001
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Location: Menlo Park, Ca, USA |
‘Red rain was fungus, not meteor’
 Mon Aug 06, 2001 3:00 pm
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Date: Monday, 6 August 2001, at 10:05 a.m.
NATIONAL NETWORK Monday, August 6, 2001
‘Red rain was fungus, not meteor’
KAMAL GOPINATH NAIR
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, AUGUST 5: The red rain that lashed parts of Kerala last month is eluding explanations as the days go by.
The Centre for Earth Science Studies (CESS) here on Saturday retracted its hypothesis that a streaking meteor triggered the rain.
Everybody had taken that explanation with a pinch of salt because other researchers had spoken of biological contents in the water samples. Yet, the retraction has raised eyebrows about a premier research body’s prudence in making a hurried announcement.
CESS has not only retracted, but tagged a confession: ‘‘This leaves several questions unanswered.’’ The CESS press release was triggered by the chemical analysis of the water samples that showed these were largely biological. Biological studies have identified organic material such as fungal spores in them.
CESS director M. Baba said: ‘‘The exact species is yet to be identified. But how such a large quantity of spores could appear over a small region is as yet unknown.’’
On July 25, Changanacherry town had received the coloured showers overnight that continued into the morning and on till sunset. Some residents collected samples of the rain. They said the shower was accompanied by thunder and lightning.
CESS then collected the samples and tested them. The water was found to be neutral and contained some amount of dissolved salts.
The filtered precipitate was fine and powdery, and this, said Baba, was chemically and biologically analysed.
The chemical analysis showed various elements — including carbon, silicon, calcium, magnesium, aluminum, iron, sodium and potassium. It contained significant traces (in parts per million) of phosphorus, titanium, chromium, manganese, copper and nickel.
The biological study — partly conducted at CESS and at the Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute (TBGRI), Pacha Palode — revealed a red coloured cell structure.
This has been tentatively identified as spores of some fungus species and are now being cultured by the TBGRI. ‘‘The red colour of the rain appears to be mainly because of the spores,’’ Baba said.
These findings, say CESS, raise doubts on whether the explosive sound reported by residents and the red rain were independent events. There are other posers too which remain unanswered:
What produced the huge quantity of spores ? Is the source local or distant?
How were the spores injected into the clouds?
If the source is not local, how was the mass transported without getting distributed over a large area?
By way of an answer, CESS has only this to say : ‘‘While the cause of the colour in the rainfall has been identified, finding the answers to these questions is a challenge.’’
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Delphi
Joined: 17 Mar 2001
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Location: S. Bossier, Louisiana |
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Mon Aug 06, 2001 8:26 pm
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LWR, How "creepy"! Maybe that explains why my once beautiful, grassy yard has been "taken over" by pastel, "other-wordly" looking mushrooms....spores...hmmmm. I have blue mushrooms now, pink, orange, red, lavender, and even one "jet black" one. My grass is being over-taken, my plants and tree leaves and flowers all look like they have a "heat" burn to their leaves or a "chemical" burn. We up-keep the yard very well, yet something has been happening to it. I wonder if we had "red-rain" here one nite for awhile and din't get to notice it? No ones yard around here looks too good latel?? Blessings, Joanne ^j^ |
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LWR
Joined: 25 Apr 2001
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Location: Menlo Park, Ca, USA |
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Mon Aug 06, 2001 11:19 pm
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Back when life was normal, I'd say eat the pink and red ones for a good time. Now, I'm not so sure. |
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Catnip57
Joined: 22 Apr 2001
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Tue Aug 07, 2001 12:09 am
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Hmmm.... maybe the red rain fell in my pumpkin patch the other day.
I've got something growing in there that I've never seen before... oh sure I've got a few of those big puff ball mushrooms, the kind you step on and they spew out some powder but this is totally different.
I'm almost sure they're a fungus. The thing that first caught my attention is the way they looked like they've been dropped a distance from the air. At first I thought I was looking at bird droppings cause they had that splattered look. Upon closer inspection I noticed they weren't from birds. So I picked one of the bigger ones up (yes, with my bare hands.. bad idea maybe) and broke it in two.
I'll try to explain this as detailed as I can so you can understand why I'm perplexed. These roundish somewhat flat mounds were white (mostly) on the outside which had the consistency of a latex paint and when I broke them they were like breaking a stick of chalk or a delicate chocolate candy. The insides of these fungus were a very fine textured chocolate color that broke up into a powder that felt exactly like talcum powder. I thought maybe they were some baby puff ball mushrooms but I compared them and the puff balls have a lot more structure inside them and have a green color to their spores. The puff ball powder also has that talcum powder feel.
I've looked all over my gardens (they're both rather big) for more of these things but they seem to favor the pumpkin and squash patch since that's the only place I've found them. Believe me I'm keeping a close eye on these to see what develops. I might even have to take a sample in to some agriculture place to see if they can be identified.
If I can figure out how to upload a picture here I'll get my digital camera out and take some pictures.
If anybody else has experienced these weird fungus let me know. |
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BobB
Joined: 30 Jul 2001
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Location: LInden,Texas,United states of America |
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Tue Aug 07, 2001 1:33 am
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Delphi, I want some of those 'shrooms you got in your yard, I'm taking a trip back to the 60's!!! |
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Delphi
Joined: 17 Mar 2001
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Location: S. Bossier, Louisiana |
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Tue Aug 07, 2001 2:01 am
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BobB, I hear that! I did trip in the 60's, I mean took a trip to where Alice in Wonderland went but I didn't even know I went, til I got back...heh, heh, just tryin to confuse ya there Bob. These Shrooms in my yard are somethin else...I want to try and download them here and may try but the pics didn't come out very clear so I'm not sure they'd show up the true colors...the one is a pretty shade of pastel blue...one, I swear to it, is BLACK...looks like a pile o crap in the picture but it is really, really, a mushroom...the other pastel color ones in the yard are tremendous...the biggest I've ever seen...my pup could use them for "shade"! Catnip and LWR...sounds like we are all having unusual "fungus" type problem...I mean, our yards...not us. I better go for now lest ya'll think I been "shroomin" today. Love and blessings all, Joanne ^j^  |
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Swedishoo
Joined: 09 Aug 2000
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Location: NC |
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Tue Aug 07, 2001 2:12 am
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Okay, I wasn't going to mention this because if being so odd, but after I read this thread, I MUST.
Last night we had a light rain with lots of lightening...and it was red. I'm not kidding, it was night time and the lightening was The color RED. Now, what would cause us to see lightening as red being that it didn't have a light source other than itself?
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David
Joined: 20 Oct 2000
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Tue Aug 07, 2001 2:49 am
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Christy, was there anything more unusual about the chemtrails prior to the lightening and rain? Different stuff happening here in N.Calif today, maybe we'll have a summer shower of red fungus rain. |
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RidesTheWind
Joined: 27 Feb 2001
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Location: The Void |
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Tue Aug 07, 2001 12:18 pm
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Hey D...Lay out a few empty canvases and capture a masterpiece.Just let it dry,frame it and voila!Maybe you can start selling chemart... |
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Swedishoo
Joined: 09 Aug 2000
Posts: 429
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Tue Aug 07, 2001 2:17 pm
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David,
The only thing that was different was that the rain and lightening storm was apart of Barry. When Barry was hitting land around 9:30pm in the Florida panhandle we (mid-state, Gulf side) were getting the back feeder bands.
Oh, forgot another odd thing...When Barry was out in the Gulf Waters prior to heading north, when it rained, the water was freezing cold. I've NEVER known freezing cold rain in July/August. Steam rolled off the roads and sidewalks for HOURS. It was eerie. Made the temperature drop so drastic everyone turned of the air. After Barry passed things went back to normal, with the exception of seeing red lightening!!
Christy
[Edited 1 times, lastly by Swedishoo on 08-07-2001] |
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Thermit
Joined: 08 Jul 2000
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Location: Texas |
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Wed Aug 08, 2001 1:12 am
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Here ya' go Delphi...
Now explain what's up with this fungus thing one more time...
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Delphi
Joined: 17 Mar 2001
Posts: 1571
Location: S. Bossier, Louisiana |
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Wed Aug 08, 2001 2:47 am
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Thanx Thermit! That's my baby blue mushroom...it seemed more "vivid" blue in "real-life"! Anyways, down here in ole Gator country, in the summer pictures are hard to get clear half the time...something about the humidity and fogging the lenses and such...but, I wish ya'll could seen "it" in person...the thing was pretty big and blue...I had never witnessed a blue mushroom before?It looked like a big sea-shell, I thought! I have another picture of a huge, deformed, pink-orange one but if I can't get it to a better size...I'll save it away for now. It's just that the "fungus" red rain business and the reports of fungus being found in chem contents, (I read that somewheres), couldn't help wondering about the mushroom "invasion" we are suddenly having in our yard. We always had pretty, well kept grass and now, these "things" cropping up all over...never had em like that til this year...weird. Blessings to all, Joanne ^j^ |
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Catnip57
Joined: 22 Apr 2001
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Location: Central Washington |
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Wed Aug 08, 2001 5:19 am
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Delphi... I was looking in my mushroom book for the fungus that you posted. I found a few that looked a bit similar but they weren't blue. Then I found a picture of a really pretty blue mushroom but it looks way too small compared to your picture. I was wondering... does your mushroom have a stem and gills? And about how many inches in width is it?
I also looked thru my book for the type of fungus I've got growing in my garden... the only thing that even faintly resembles the ones I have are the puff balls since they seem to pop up out of the ground in the same manner as puff balls, more or less, and both species have a talcum powder consistancy to their spores.
We've had puff balls in the lawn before so that really isn't unusual.
I just know I'm going to have to take a sample in for someone to identify.
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Delphi
Joined: 17 Mar 2001
Posts: 1571
Location: S. Bossier, Louisiana |
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Wed Aug 08, 2001 7:05 am
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Catnip, Most of the "mutant" mushrooms I have are BIG, some 6 to 8 inches in their irregular diameter. I oughtta scan the other mutant one over...I think I have the scanner figured now to send a smaller size pic for Thermit...this other one is totally "freaky" and deformed looking and weird color. I also have very tiny beige ones popping up...never saw these kind either...too small for picture...they are about the size of a "bee-bee" pellet and they grow in groups of 10 or 20. The big mushrooms including the blue one there are very flat and low to ground, no visible stem at all or groves of any kind, just that "sea-shell" like flat appearance like the one above. Blessings, Joanne ^j^ |
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