... [He has to take a minute to decide whether to answer that or not, but eventually does.]

Most of what I know can be easily observed. The people here don't seem dangerous, for the most part. They don't even seem to have much in common. But at least a couple of them are pretty heavily armed, and one of them is from three hundred or more years in the future, as compared to the year it was before I woke up here.

If this is done by technology, it's technology advanced beyond anything I know. But I don't think it is.