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Let's all keep in mind that this paper was published by physicists, in non-peer reviewed journals.

There is a lot of jumping the gun in these articles, especially when it's the lead authors first and only paper. Here is a link to the actual paper:

http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1303/1303.1845.pdf

Here is a slate article that has already proven that the data mined by the "Astrobiologists" is faulty and biased:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/01/15/life_in_...




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