Simply put, the current BoD are Directing. In some ways it is easier to speculate on the idea that there is plenty going on in the back ground and these guys are as much focused on timing as they are on Exploring. They are tending to Big Picture things and looking to fit into the Timing of the expected Big Picture Things. Or is it that that is what I am reading into their manner and behaviour.

In comparison, RN and Co were in a 'Beat the Clock' Game and thus a slightly different take on Timing where HARD FAST EFFECTIVE work were essential in getting that Timing right, along with some cooperation and luck.

Now we are subject to much more intense, though also much more slowly moving, background HARD/SMART WORK involving posturing, discussion, and prpopsitioning/counter-propositioning (legal/accounting wrangling) etc. while the Exploration Program moves quitely along it's merry way. NOT to say there will be periods of peaked Exploration Interest in the mean time, but the Corporate wheeling and dealing will be the ultimate VALUE determinant.

Something like a Western Novel!

Old Joe