But the idea and the team were fresh, and it managed to attract the attention and backing needed to make it survive into its second season.
At a time of message overload, finding a way to make something stick is part of making it survive.
"If I love a book, I feel it's my responsibility to make it survive in an equally lovable form".
"If you make it very, very small, you basically don't have to do anything else to make it survive," he said.
2. Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing.
While results so far are on the whole good, perhaps the trickier part of the process is to make it survive the weeks after the summit.
"Everyone has found a way to make it work, to make it survive, because there's really no one else that's doing this work," Perez said via a translator.
"If you can show that you are able to protect a vehicle of this sort from re-entry, then you can probably protect a military warhead and make it survive the high temperatures and high pressures of re-entering," Gruselle said.
It makes it harder to survive, but dodging bullets moving in a random pattern and crouching will help you survive.
"If our own federal government is also letting its taxes subsidize foreign corporations and offshore producers, it makes it harder to survive," said Philip E. Prichard, whose independent distillery in Tennessee makes rum and bourbon.
