[Max pulled Shiki right back out of his shame.]

Oh, I don't know...? [He left it hanging, as if it were a question. Shiki generally preferred to avoid experimentation, so when posed with the suggestion that he might want to at least get proof of the danger of the water--he decided simply being biased towards scientific research would have trumped the risk.]

It's really an interesting thing to consider, isn't it? If we weren't living it ourselves, we could probably call this a space exploration story.