It's an interesting question. I think there is something in distance + time + technological advances at the source? If you advanced your technology, in theory y

It's an interesting question. I think there is something in distance + time + technological advances at the source? If you advanced your technology, in theory your new stuff could literally pass(collect) your old stuff? I think if you're intellectually advanced enough to send what you suspect will be a successful mission to another system, you can kinda reason through aborting/changing it based on the advances you might make in the time it takes to travel? Not sure that makes any sense.