"Thanks." And he means it. He's coming down from his annoyed teenager mood swing from a minute ago and getting right back into business mode. Ignoring your feelings is the best way to deal with them, he's learning this quickly.

"Those of us who have been here the longest have been here... three, maybe four months. That's how long I've been working on it, but there were also more uh, let's say pressing matters to deal with. Like making sure we don't starve to death, making sure the force field holds so we don't all get irradiated to death, replacing all the air and water filters, dealing with a severe nanomachine malfunction. Basic survival stuff. This place was abandoned for a really long time before we showed up, so a lot of the equipment was in bad shape."