"Is that what Pearl thinks?" Jasper's kind of skeptical about a pearl's capability to offer any particular scientific insight, but... "I guess that'd make sense," she says grudgingly. "It's not like the Cetagandans are the ones who did this to us in the first place. But... if she's wrong, then what? We just end up back on Earth again except now we're -- humans? And the humans there wouldn't have any way to fix us, you've seen how primitive they are."