the "Growth and replication of red rain cells at 121 oC and their red fluorescence" paper at arxiv does not contain a single reference to the alledgelly-named "

the "Growth and replication of red rain cells at 121 oC and their red fluorescence" paper at arxiv does not contain a single reference to the alledgelly-named "cells" lack of DNA (apart from being plagued of obvious spelling errors). If I were them, I wouldn't bother with spectrographic analysis if the real finding is non-dna based life form. Having worked at a biotech lab, this "study" of replication without saying anything about microbiological characterization smells like a fun replica of the Sokal affair http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_Affair http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_Affair.