"That's the thing," he answers and now that they're into it, he pushes himself up so that he's sitting up a little, he needs room for potential hand gesturing. "The technology being used to create them is beyond what we have here, what we even had in 2025. The Precursors--the guys who made the kaiju, basically aliens--have been around... Christ, forever. Since before the dinosaurs. They tried the whole world takeover thing then, too, by the way. But they were able to take the same strand of DNA and clone these things over and over but evolve them, make them stronger and better and--" He cuts himself off with a sigh, bringing his hand to his face to rub over his stubble. "If we could do that here, it would change the world, y'know?"

He needs to get in a lab. It's starting to feel like an addiction flare-up, there's a craving in him to get his hands dirty. He's been fairly complacent since getting here, struggling to accept the fact that the past ten years of his life are basically moot because of the world he's in now, but the idea of getting back in the saddle and doing research that matters... it lights a spark in him.