If the afterlife has garlic knots or a decent deli, it's not going to be such a bad way to spend eternity.
Because that's where we are now. We know about the genocidal alien that's out there, but we still run the risk of royally screwing ourselves over by tweaking something too much one way or the other. It might be a risk we have to take, but not one taken lightly. Which you pointed out. I think even Stark would realize the implications.
It's good not to give up, either. It might take some inventive thinking on everyone's parts.
...and I'm sorry I didn't text or message back before. Focusing became an ongoing issue.