Asagoa and Tu Shan have set out into the world together but we do not yet know precisely what they will do. Hanno has tried but failed to get a research program launched under the auspices of Cardinal Richelieu. Aliyat and Svoboda still wander alone. And this is not yet even the full compliment of the eight eventual "Survivors."
Moral: Anything worthwhile takes a long time to happen. It is a long and rocky road. And we already know this from the evolution of life, consciousness and intelligence and from the emergence of civilization and science. Thus, these immortals stand for us all. No individuals, as far as we know, have lived through history but we can study it and make our observations. We have got as far as we have and we hope to go further - not into interstellar empires maybe but they would be better than nothing! Now I do want to do some other reading but we will return to Boat soon.
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Kaor, Paul!
I can also think of any number of bad goals whose proponents work for decades to bring them to a success, no matter how hideous that would be. Such as the Muslim Brotherhood and its spinoffs, dreaming and working to set up a global caliphate under Sharia law--by all means possible, such as jihads.
Ad astra! Sean
OTOH, sometimes you do the right thing at the right time and get a quick payoff. Eg., the US nuclear-weapons research program, 1942-45. -That- was quick.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
And Elon Musk's successes at SpaceX also comes to mind!
Ad astra! Sean
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