Astronauts and astronomers

Long back I heard these line in a not so famed movie... Jurassic Park III....

something like this: There are astronomers and there are astronauts, both doing the same work. Astronomers, however, tend to look at the stars from their domain of security, but unlike astronauts, they never get to see the real thing....

I was posed with a similar question on a recent trek to a petit hill fort (petit from my viewpoint of hugeness)... "अंग्रेज अजीब होते हैं, कभी भी कहीं भी बोरिया बिस्तर उठाया और चल पड़े, ऐसे ही पहाडों पे climb हैं ... "... All adventure, all adrenaline seems wierd to some and those are the very people who question why does other crave for such things...

I remember above lines at such times...

Until and unless this questioning mob experiences the real thing, noone can explain why?

On this trek, though I called it petit, I had people with me, who looked up at the mountain, at the top and wondered how high it was, how will they reach it, whether they will or not? They would have never gotten the answer to any of this if they had not allowed themselves to the first hand experience of it all.... and only when they have now reached the top, they can now realize why its "petit"...