It matters, because if we only go as far as the moon, if you forgive me the space exploration metaphor, and then need thousands of years to reach the next star system, humans will adapt to cope with the long journey.
We’ll have thousands of years to adapt to the journey, but events might unfold very quickly once we got there.
Rational decision makers won’t invest a lot of resources, just in case doing so might turn out to be useful in future.
I can’t see any obveous reason why the expected value couldn’t be positive?
We’ll have thousands of years to adapt to the journey, but events might unfold very quickly once we got there.
I can’t see any obveous reason why the expected value couldn’t be positive?