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Re:Flies keep landing on North Sea oil rigs by estimator7292 on Saturday October 18, 2025 @12:33PM (#45628568)
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.

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Re:Flies keep landing on North Sea oil rigs by rdtsc on Sunday October 19, 2025 @08:19AM (#45633658)
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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