From Howard Grounds
I was struck by your article raising the possibility of creating a non-organic life form using charged plasma gases (20 September, p 16).
A year ago, I came across a video feed from one of the space shuttle flights during which the crew cut loose the wake shield. A series of photographs taken from the craft a using a telephoto lens depicted something very similar to the blobs of plasma referred to in your article. NASA described these spheres as an anomalous atmospheric/space phenomenon. Are the two phenomena possibly the same?
Rushsylvania, Ohio, US
