"I guess not, we've just got way more of a gap than I thought. You don't mind?" He doesn't actually care. What he does care about is that he clearly rubbed Ratchet the wrong way with his question about inorganic life.

"But how?" The concept just doesn't exist to him even if he wants to understand. "Sorry, we don't... have anything like that, that I know of. All the life we've encountered is organic. I didn't mean--" He waves his hand, frustrated. He knows Ratchet's alive, even if not the how.