"What exactly does a world-renoun astrobiologist of your caliber do exactly?"

Study rock varnish and lithobiontic rock coatings for the Cardiff Center for Astrobiology. I am a science and aerospace writer. This is where I make some of my living. I also am a photographer and musican. My music was actually flown into space on the space shuttle Discovery in 1995.

ET: "You do more than just read astrobio papers and pretend to understand them, correct?"

Yes, I have authored five. Some of them are listed at the ICAMSR website:

www.icamsr.org

Now ET, tell me how many papers on astrbiology you have in your library? I have a astrobiology and planetary protection document reference library that includes over 9,000 abstracts, reports and papers. And I have read them all. I have every paper published from Viking and Mars Pathfinder as well as Mars Global Surveyor. I have a huge collection of books too, including everything Hoyle and Wickramasinghe have ever written and all their papers too.

I have every paper published about the Beagle 2 mission.

BD