This is interesting, because I think both you and parent commenter identify an interesting principle when thinking about space colonization. Maybe at the end o

This is interesting, because I think both you and parent commenter identify an interesting principle when thinking about space colonization. Maybe at the end of the day, the dumb, brute cost of traversing an extreme distance is a tougher problem than colonizing someplace nearby thats vastly less habitable. One problem is conceptually simpler but extremely costly, the other is conceivably lest costly overall despite being way more complicated.