TAGON: This... planet-thing? It's protecting us from the crushing attraction of its mass.
GUS: Yes.
TAGON: Do you know how it's doing it?
GUS: No.
TAGON: But you people are still digging a hole in it and poking around?
GUS: Yes. And the scientists feel safer with that than they do with you and your openly carried weapons.
And yes, I saw that irony coming, and shot first.