Claire mirrors that desire with a more vocal, "I'd love to get up there and actually look out." Not that it would make a difference. It isn't like driving back into Odessa or Costa Verde and recognizing where you are by street signs and landscapes. She's not going to peer out into the emptiness of space and recognize a few stars or a passing planet and think, Right, KitKat Galaxy. Makes complete sense. But it does have the benefit of making all of this that much more real. Whatever ground she can find to stand on without shifting too much as she climbs up, she'll take.

"I gotta confess, the only real understand I have of space comes from one astronomy class I'm supposed to be in the middle of and a bunch of sci-fi movies." She looks over at him, not appraisingly but without ridicule. What can she say? She thinks nerds are cool. "You actually sound like you know what you're talking about."

So either he's seen Alien a bunch of times or...