[He's not letting on to his annoyance at this, but he's certainly feeling it; the people who made those machines are here and none of them know anything about how they work. Still, she might at least know something interesting.]
You've prolly seen machines where you come from even if you aren't an engineer though, just like I've seen Pokémon even though I don't study 'em. What kinds of machines do you end up using day-to-day? If your people can build something like those machines we found, I'm betting you have other stuff that we can't match.
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[He's not letting on to his annoyance at this, but he's certainly feeling it; the people who made those machines are here and none of them know anything about how they work. Still, she might at least know something interesting.]
You've prolly seen machines where you come from even if you aren't an engineer though, just like I've seen Pokémon even though I don't study 'em. What kinds of machines do you end up using day-to-day? If your people can build something like those machines we found, I'm betting you have other stuff that we can't match.