I guess. If there were more people, then maybe we'd be further along. Or someone would've noticed what happened. There's enough 'magic' universes for someone to be versed in trans-universal teleportation.

[ There's a short pause, and then he sort of chuckles at himself. ]

Eh, I'm just looking for some other way, something that'd give us an advantage. But we still don't know enough about what's even going on to know what we'd need. Wouldn't mind more programmers, though, too. Makes me wish I actually picked up that talking-to-computers ability I heard about awhile back, just in case.