[ Now that part? That is both interesting and worrying. First of all, apparently this Earth place is more fucked up than Jack realized if they're looking to abandon the planet, but mostly, his attention is focused on a single word here: epidemiological. The rest doesn't bother him as much, since it's just information to take in and process. None of it is uninteresting, but considering his own role here, it's naturally all secondary.
For a naturally suspicious person like Jack, this implies that this "infection" might not be accidental. And really, to himself? He can't help but wonder again if his own role here is complete bullshit too. Hell, Harlan isn't the only one to do epidemiological studies. Hyperion did the same. It was hardly his area of expertise, and he left that sort of work to people way more into the medical stuff than he was, but he understood it well enough to know (or to think he knows) that if you're studying epidemics, you don't let someone try and work against it.
Granted, his own solution to that problem tended to be murdering any medical professionals within a few square miles of the infection site, but. Still. It's strange. This datapad he'll be holding onto, but not for very long. This one he wants other people to read, because without saying so explicitly, he'd rather task people with looking into this where he can reap the benefits from a distance. If they get to thinking about the problem, even from a word, it's only going to help him root out the infected.
But, before that.
Jack lowers the pad, and he looks up. He won't ask her about hardly anything he's found, but he is interested to see what Alice knows about one topic in particular. ]
Hey-- Alice. Got a quick question for you from my light reading here.
[ Though he doesn't waste any time, and he gets right to it. ]
no subject
For a naturally suspicious person like Jack, this implies that this "infection" might not be accidental. And really, to himself? He can't help but wonder again if his own role here is complete bullshit too. Hell, Harlan isn't the only one to do epidemiological studies. Hyperion did the same. It was hardly his area of expertise, and he left that sort of work to people way more into the medical stuff than he was, but he understood it well enough to know (or to think he knows) that if you're studying epidemics, you don't let someone try and work against it.
Granted, his own solution to that problem tended to be murdering any medical professionals within a few square miles of the infection site, but. Still. It's strange. This datapad he'll be holding onto, but not for very long. This one he wants other people to read, because without saying so explicitly, he'd rather task people with looking into this where he can reap the benefits from a distance. If they get to thinking about the problem, even from a word, it's only going to help him root out the infected.
But, before that.
Jack lowers the pad, and he looks up. He won't ask her about hardly anything he's found, but he is interested to see what Alice knows about one topic in particular. ]
Hey-- Alice. Got a quick question for you from my light reading here.
[ Though he doesn't waste any time, and he gets right to it. ]
Anything you can tell me about "Harlan"?