"That IS a possibility." He says, considering. "I've met someone here from a far future that involves some travel through space, and such. We share a language and a country at least in theory. I suppose I would not be surprised to find that out anymore." It's nothing that would have occurred to him in life, but well...

"The God that most people at home believe in is said to have infinite abilities and powers of creation. It would be somewhat....arrogant...to assume that we are all that was put there. And our science does have such a long way to go. It's comforting, oddly enough, the idea we aren't alone."

It WAS entertaining, really. He'd been so fierce about it too, even if he'd laughed after his loss.