alt Hacker NewsWonderful passage, thank you for sharing.
My pedantic side wants to ask- Why not both? Luxurious space exploration AND meditative, poetic examinations of the human soul as well? I'd love to read Vonnegut's book someday while sitting in a nice research outpost on Titan, admiring great Saturn's crown out my window with my own eyes.
I think, those both are contradictory and completely occupy the bandwidth when engaged one way, it's mutually exclusive.