[ If you were almost as smart as Tony Stark, you might be impressed. Because Tony Stark is as smart as Tony Stark, he's tunneled all the way from a generalised skepticism, through the part where he could be impressed right away, and out the other end into informed skepticism.
And it's by virtue of the circumstances in which they are having this conversation that he says; ] Okay.
[ Okay. ]
Howard Stark was here.
[ :) ]
Circa 1940s, some'n like that. He disappeared about a month before you showed up. So what did we learn? [ Breezing by-- ] That he either did not show back up in our world with all memories of his experiences here intact, or he's-- even better at compartmentalisation than anyone knew about, or he didn't go back at all, or there's an alternate timeline in which arc reactor technology took off a hell of a lot sooner than it did. Whatever option begets the fact that you and I are from the same place and we remembered the same history.
So I posit whatever we tell each other doesn't mean jack.
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[ If you were almost as smart as Tony Stark, you might be impressed. Because Tony Stark is as smart as Tony Stark, he's tunneled all the way from a generalised skepticism, through the part where he could be impressed right away, and out the other end into informed skepticism.
And it's by virtue of the circumstances in which they are having this conversation that he says; ] Okay.
[ Okay. ]
Howard Stark was here.
[ :) ]
Circa 1940s, some'n like that. He disappeared about a month before you showed up. So what did we learn? [ Breezing by-- ] That he either did not show back up in our world with all memories of his experiences here intact, or he's-- even better at compartmentalisation than anyone knew about, or he didn't go back at all, or there's an alternate timeline in which arc reactor technology took off a hell of a lot sooner than it did. Whatever option begets the fact that you and I are from the same place and we remembered the same history.
So I posit whatever we tell each other doesn't mean jack.