Most things change, yeah. Especially anything that's alive. But look, I'm very happy to keep explaining, I just don't want you to have to humor me. Though if you teach me to knit, that'll probably be pretty humbling, so at least there's that.

[This last with a little grin.]

But yeah, Research tends to have a lot on its plate. But rift-monitoring is one of our longest-running projects. In part because, like, it's a new field and there's not really a lot of other sources we can rely on besides observing things ourselves. And partly because every time we go to close a rift, people want to know what the long-term effects will be, and it would be nice to give them an idea.