> The amount of wise-cracks and beers your team can handle after a work day is not the determinate factor in success. Of course it isn't. But it's a starting p

> The amount of wise-cracks and beers your team can handle after a work day is not the determinate factor in success. Of course it isn't. But it's a starting point for building a team that can deal with what you describe (a decade-plus long timeline, zero room for failure, etc). If the people responsible are more or less insufferable, progress will be extremely difficult, irrespective of how talented they are.