Of course there's something to be gained. Contingency plans, meetup points, means of communication -

[There he goes, dipping back into Space Ranger brain again. There are so many ways trying to plan is like trying to throw a rock at the sun, but Buzz would rather do it than silently wait to see what bad possibility becomes a bad reality.]

If you're going to figure out something then, why not figure it out now? Nobody here wants you to walk away forever.

[Jesse would be devastated. He'd be devastated. Why does that devastation have to seem unavoidable?]