Jasnah listens carefully. Her face goes through several interesting transformations while he speaks- nothing dramatic, but enough of a grimace that it's obvious that no one has bothered to explain 'the cold hard vacuum of space' to her before.

"What is there to learn or see up here that's so valuable that we decided we should build a habitat in these conditions?"

Because after hearing this, the Alethi are never going to explore space travel, not under her rule. Not even if it weren't centuries away.

But the more important conclusion she reaches, right away, is;

"You'd design a structure like that to allow sections of itself to seal off, in case the outside barrier was punctured. That's why the doors cling to the floors like they do?"

If that's the case, there's a bigger, nastier conclusion lurking right behind that one, to do with how they've all been tearing down doors and getting into the walls.