[That gets a laugh, slight and soft, as he takes his seat again, reclaims his cup of coffee.]
I'll confess, the learning curve was somewhat steep the first few days I was here. But technological advances are built largely with human intuition in mind, so I found that even a rudimentary familiarity lent itself to functional knowledge inside a matter of hours.
[He tips his head to one side. After a moment:]
Though perhaps you could tell me of the moon landing.
[He's read about it. As a concept, it barely feels real. People in his time generally assumed that atmosphere went on forever, that one could have breathed just as easily on the moon as on Earth. Flint - ever the skepticist - maintained a healthy distrust for that theory. He's glad to learn that the particulars have been proven in the future.]
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I'll confess, the learning curve was somewhat steep the first few days I was here. But technological advances are built largely with human intuition in mind, so I found that even a rudimentary familiarity lent itself to functional knowledge inside a matter of hours.
[He tips his head to one side. After a moment:]
Though perhaps you could tell me of the moon landing.
[He's read about it. As a concept, it barely feels real. People in his time generally assumed that atmosphere went on forever, that one could have breathed just as easily on the moon as on Earth. Flint - ever the skepticist - maintained a healthy distrust for that theory. He's glad to learn that the particulars have been proven in the future.]