He thinks dr lebedev ' s account of months of increasingly territorial behaviour and flagging conversation with his lone colleague on the good ship salyut 7 is a “ painfully boring ” portrayal of why human space exploration is as pointless as it is frivolous 他认为列贝德夫博士在“礼炮” 7号这个杰出的空间站中的数月生活中，其与自己唯一的同事之间表现出的领域行为和交谈的减少，就是对为什么人类的空间探索一直过于盲目且没有成效的一个“痛苦且令人沮丧”的描写。
