[zardoz90]

If we look at one of the authors, Chandra Wickramasinghe, it's clear he has an obvious bias towards this sort of thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandra_Wickramasinghe

[jamespitts]

Perhaps a better word is specialization.

Most of us are armchair astrophysicists at best and we should not be so spontaneously dismissive. If there is something in all of this, we'll hear about it soon enough from the scientific community. In the meantime we should be conservative in how we depict the scientists and publications involved.

[scrumper]

That is well said. One might equally accuse Leonard Susskind of a bias towards string theory. Chandra Wickramasinghe isn't himself a crank, and that's what gives me hopes for this research.

[GotAnyMegadeth]

> We report the discovery for the first time of diatom frustules in a carbonaceous meteorite thatfell in the North Central Province of Sri Lanka on 29 December 2012

[zardoz90]

Yeah, my bad, I was looking at the url.