Rain of red 'cells' in India

At least they are doing tests for DNA, one would have thought this would be conclusive, most are negative but one test has come back positive. You would think that it should be pretty straight forward to tell if DNA/RNA is present or not.
In the absence of DNA, surely a similar "Technology" should be present, ie one that is capable of encoding information and transmitting it faitfully to the next generation. If this were found to be true, it would be a major discovery, a second type of life.....
I still have my doubts though, granted it may be reproducing, but crystals are capable of that.
If this thing is capable of reproducing at 600F or 315C, and is life, then I reckon, we will have to rewrite a lot of our text books, as well as keeping the noblel committee busy for a few years.

In the absence of DNA, surely a similar "Technology" should be present, ie one that is capable of encoding information and transmitting it faitfully to the next generation. If this were found to be true, it would be a major discovery, a second type of life.....

RNA is capable of doing that. One theory of early life, the RNA world, depends on it.

I should have been clearer

should have wrote in the absence of DNA /RNA.

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0601022 has the paper.

It's another paper by the same guy we discussed here before. Theres not a lot in this paper thats new.

podcast.seti.org/media/AWA_06-08-02.mp3

Update on red rain, microbiologist from SETI dismisses research and reports

37mins into mp3

podcast.seti.org/media/AWA_06-08-02.mp3

Update on red rain, microbiologist from SETI dismisses research and reports

37mins into mp3

Was just about to post this too.

Seems like when other people look at the same rain they found plenty of DNA and even sequenced it showing the red colour from from a comon terestrial bacteria.

Apparently the techniques used by the first guys were simply wrong and any real biologist would have figured that .... at least so the scientists on the SETI podcast said.

I'm pretty convinced there is no evidence for any aliens here TBH.