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		estimator7292 38 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Flies keep landing on North Sea oil rigs Easy, just make The Mission into The Religion. Only slightly joking. The best way to do this is to either ensure you have a scientific culture that can dedicate itself to a very distant goal, or you make it a religion and keep the intermediate generations complacent.

rdtsc 37 days ago [–]

That could work. There is still a danger heretics would appear, so the inquisition would have to keep a watchful eye!

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