The worst case scenario of jumping is that we're all slaughtered in our pods for getting in its way & Van Rijn finds our corpses & the ship with nothing to stop him. Or that we evade him now & 5 or 50 or 500 years later they work their way around to the technology anyway. Stalling won't make a difference to anyone at home.
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Or that we evade him now & 5 or 50 or 500 years later they work their way around to the technology anyway.
Stalling won't make a difference to anyone at home.