"Ten thousand years... That's impressive. I would have expected humanity to destroy itself before that kind of achievement."

There are times when he talks like he isn't part of humanity, and this is one of them. He may have interacted with quite a lot of people, but there's been no depth to it.

He did, however, mean 'wider range of experience' with some sarcasm.

"And no, this isn't like my Planet. It seems more Earth-like than anything else..." A fact which is a source of some frustration for him, but he won't mention that now. "But perhaps that would be more familiar to me than your world."