I'm no scientist either. [ Snake realizes that work is much better off in the hands of someone else, but that doesn't mean he isn't invested in fixing the Ingress. As she'd implied, they're pretty much screwed if they don't. ]

But the captains made it pretty clear to me that if the Ingress completely breaks, we've got no chance of getting home. Makes it priority one for us to get it stable.

[ Even if all he can do is keep an eye out for this journal, that's better than sitting around on his ass. ]

So... [ He tilts his head at her. ] Do you know what it looks like?