Where Boimler is standing there with a cup of coffee, he suddenly perks up, like a dog hearing a dog whistle. Dan may as well have turned on a bat signal in the shape of a Starfleet delta instead of a bat.
There are some people that Boimler would mock for not knowing about the solar system but even though he only knows Dan in passing he's at least keened on that he's a Past Guy, one of many Past People on the team, and he has no idea what the technology or education is like for him back home. He's read things on the past internet that make it clear the education is pretty bad even in lots of places in this time on this version of Earth. If he'd been raised in Modesto in the present day, he might have even not have learned multivariable calculus during his pre-Starfleet education. (Perish the thought!)
"Ooh!" He says it with an energy that's half over-excitable science teacher and half a kid desperately wanting the same teacher to pick him in class. He puts his coffee down on a nearby table and gathers up an armful of random toy making scrap junk off a yeti work table near him for visual aids. "I can totally explain that!"
He goes over and dumps the stuff on the table nearest Dan and starts arranging it into a pattern then looks for something to write with. The Pole always has markers and other non-digital writing tools all over. He is definitely going to fuck up that tablecloth with orbital paths on the solar system's orbital plane in a second.
(How often do you get to teach someone about the solar system for the first time?! Like never. Even kids learn it at a super, super early age and he doesn't ever hang around any kids anyway and also he'd much rather talk to an adult. Besides very small children, everyone else knows about what solar systems are already. Everyone.)
Honesty
There are some people that Boimler would mock for not knowing about the solar system but even though he only knows Dan in passing he's at least keened on that he's a Past Guy, one of many Past People on the team, and he has no idea what the technology or education is like for him back home. He's read things on the past internet that make it clear the education is pretty bad even in lots of places in this time on this version of Earth. If he'd been raised in Modesto in the present day, he might have even not have learned multivariable calculus during his pre-Starfleet education. (Perish the thought!)
"Ooh!" He says it with an energy that's half over-excitable science teacher and half a kid desperately wanting the same teacher to pick him in class. He puts his coffee down on a nearby table and gathers up an armful of random toy making scrap junk off a yeti work table near him for visual aids. "I can totally explain that!"
He goes over and dumps the stuff on the table nearest Dan and starts arranging it into a pattern then looks for something to write with. The Pole always has markers and other non-digital writing tools all over. He is definitely going to fuck up that tablecloth with orbital paths on the solar system's orbital plane in a second.
(How often do you get to teach someone about the solar system for the first time?! Like never. Even kids learn it at a super, super early age and he doesn't ever hang around any kids anyway and also he'd much rather talk to an adult. Besides very small children, everyone else knows about what solar systems are already. Everyone.)