Well, that's certainly odd. He thinks it might be a little stranger if they were back home, especially seeing as there's so many questions he has, feeling like he can ask them here, but won't be able to get the sort of accurate samples he wants in order to truly understand what she's talking about. "Do you think it's a fully normalized rate?" is what he asks, because even though he can't get all the information he wants, he still thinks he's going to pursue as much as he can. "Or is it a slow snap back?"

"And how did you even do that? Why would you do that?" This time, there's no judgment in the question, simply a scientific, needy curiosity.