So the answer’s somewhere down in the basement?

It should be… I had all my old equipment put in storage down here.
And you’re sure you can’t just tell us the answer.

Honestly, Trevor. Do you have no flare for the dramatic at all?
Right now I mostly have the beginnings of a hangover.

*sigh* Look, it’s simple. We’ve all been too wrapped up in trying to know the unknowable to even try.

We come up with a theory? Then we test the theory! And it if it fails? Great! We move on to a new theory!

So the answer is… failure?
Exactly! And In this case, one specific failure that I’m sure should be…
Ah-hah!

Is… is that a cannon?
That is my last failed metaphysical experiment.
And also exactly what we need to solve our little border problem.