Finding the means necessary to an accomplishment is in itself an accomplishment. If their work was to search for perfect samples then the accomplishment was fi

Finding the means necessary to an accomplishment is in itself an accomplishment. If their work was to search for perfect samples then the accomplishment was finding them. If their work was in calibration then the samples are just a mean. Maybe in the last decades everyone knew that good stalagmites were needed and so people were searching for the perfect ones. It is all a matter of what story are you trying to tell.