Has anyone ever actually seen Purple Rain, or is Prince just full of it?

Question

Has anyone ever actually seen Purple Rain, or is Prince just full of it?

Answer 1

Yes I have seen Purple rain but I was taking some illegal substances at the time

Answer 2

It definatly sounds unlikely but you never know what happens in this strange world. Personally i would say its not true, but you might think different.

Answer 3

He just really loved purple back then. Rain probably was purple for him because his purple mascara was probably running.

Answer 4

Yup, I saw it a couple times.  Also, what's that other one he was in...  Under A Cherry Moon, or something.  I liked that one better.  Prince directed that one.  

Oh, wait, now I get it...  No, I haven't seen purple rain, nor a cherry, or even a blue moon for that matter.  But I have seen the big yellow harvest moon.

Answer 5

There is a phenomemon called red rain, Here is some information

Red rain in Kerala

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Red rain collected in bucketsFrom 25 July to 23 September 2001, red rain sporadically fell on the southern Indian state of Kerala. Heavy downpours occurred in which the rain was coloured red, staining clothes with an appearance similar to that of blood.[1] Yellow, green, and black rain was also reported.[2]

It was initially suspected that the rains were coloured by fallout from a hypothetical meteor burst, but a study commissioned by the Government of India found that the rains had been coloured by airborne spores from a locally prolific terrestrial alga.[3] Then in early 2006, the coloured rains of Kerala suddenly rose to worldwide attention after media reports of a conjecture that the coloured particles were extraterrestrial cells, proposed by Godfrey Louis and Santhosh Kumar of the Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam. The terrestrial origins of the solid material in the red rain were supported by an investigation into the isotopic ratios of nitrogen and carbon.[4]

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1 The rain

2 Official report

3 Cornell University Analysis

4 Conventional theories

5 Extraterrestrial hypotheses

5.1 Cometary origin hypothesis

5.2 Proto-domain hypothesis

6 Further occurrences

7 References

8 External links

8.1 Louis and Kumar's papers



[edit] The rain



Kottayam district in Kerala, which experienced the most intense red rainfallThe coloured rain of Kerala first fell on 25 July 2001, in the districts of Kottayam and Idukki in the southern part of the state. Some reports suggested that other colours of rain were also seen.[5] Many more occurrences of the red rain were reported over the following ten days, and then with diminishing frequency until late September.

According to locals, the first coloured rain was preceded by a loud thunderclap and flash of light, and followed by groves of trees shedding shrivelled grey "burnt" leaves. Shrivelled leaves and the disappearance and sudden formation of wells were also reported around the same time in the area.[6][7][8]

The colouration of the rain was due to red particles in suspension in the rain water, and the red rain was at times as strongly coloured as blood. It typically fell over small areas, no more than a few square kilometres in size, and was sometimes so localised that normal rain could be falling just a few metres away from the red rain. Red rainfalls typically lasted less than 20 minutes.[9]

[edit] Official report



Photomicrograph of particles from red rain sampleInitially the Centre for Earth Science Studies (CESS) had suggested that the cause of the red rain was an exploding meteor. A few days later, when the red rain continued to fall, they retracted this. (Clearly debris from a meteor wouldn't have continued to fall in the same area.) Instead, the announcement jointly from the CESS and the Tropical Botanical Garden and Research Institute (TBGRI) concluded that the particles colouring the rainwater were some type of spore.[10] Then in November of 2001, commissioned by the Government of India's Department of Science & Technology, the CESS and TBGRI released a report which concluded that Kerala's rains were coloured by algal spores, which were successfully grown in medium into lichen associated algae of the genus Trentepohlia. Although red or orange, Trentepohlia is a Chlorophyte green alga which can grow abundantly on tree bark or damp soil and rocks, but is also the photosynthetic symbiont or photobiont of many lichens, including some of those abundant on the trees in Changanacherry area.[11]



Rain water sample (left) and after the particles settled (right). Dried sediment (center).The report also stated that there was no dust of meteoric, volcanic or desert origin present in the rainwater, and that the colour of the rainwater was not due to any dissolved gases or pollutants. The report suggested that heavy rains in Kerala in the weeks preceding the red rains could have caused the widespread growth of lichens, which had given rise to a large quantity of spores in the atmosphere. However, it found no definite mechanism for the apparent extraordinary dispersal of the suspect spores, nor for the uptake of the suspect spores into clouds.

The authors of the report analysed some sediment collected from the red rains, using a combination of ion-coupled plasma mass spectrometry, atomic absorption spectrometry and wet chemical methods. The major elements found are listed below.

Major elements present in the dried sediment Element Al K Mg Ca Na Fe Si C P

Weight % 1.00 0.26 1.48 2.52 0.49 0.61 7.50 51.00 0.08

The presence of aluminium and the very low content of phosphorus is puzzling because aluminium is not ordinarily found in living cells, while normally about 3% phosphorus can be expected in the dry weight of biological cells.[12]

The CESS analysis also showed significant amounts of heavy metals in the red raindust, including nickel (43), manganese (59), titanium (321), chromium (67) and copper (55) (amounts in ppm), though the report does not comment on this.

Answer 6

Yes, I've seen it...and Prince is full of it *smile*...

Seriously, I've seen a couple of rain storms in south texas that caused the sky to turn dark purple and the houses across the street looked purple too...I even found a light purple haze on my white truck after a storm a few weeks ago...I think it comes from all the flowering trees...or maybe it's all the chemical plants in the area!

Answer 7

I think it was Prince's idea of a really clever and brilliant metaphor only not really.

Answer 8

One time when I was REALLY high..

Answer 9

I've never seen purple rain, but I have seen yellow snow!

Answer 10

prince is just full of bull$hit!.