Comment Re:Space travel (Score 5, Insightful) 357
In the end it will also not matter, because when these people reach the distant location, there will be no compatible civilization on earth left.
People don't generally think of multi-millennium cryo-sleeper journeys as a "there and back" deal, so the state of any civilization on Earth would be pretty much moot once they wake up at the destination.
That is, unless Earth has advanced so much that FTL Earth ships arrived at the destination before the sleepers did. In which case; "welcome to the world of tomorrow!"
There is no point in deep space travel as long as we are not able to go faster than light or at least close to light speed.
Perhaps no point for those staying behind, no. But for the pioneers, however long the journey takes, they may well become the first humans to explore and colonise a new planet and star system. If you honestly think that such an amazing achievement is entirely pointless, then I think you might be on the wrong website.