"OK, the bad news is that there's isn't a way to send any of us home currently," he said. "It is on the priority list, but we don't really have a lot to go on other than what I already told you about how we got here, so... yeah."

"The good news is that while you're here, time effectively stops on your world, at least as far as you're concerned. So however long you're stuck here, as far as your world is concerned, you never left. Which is great if you had any time-sensitive things going on back there."