The Battlestar Galactica mission statement

I found this link over at the Tahmoh Penikett blog. It is the mission statement that convinced Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell to sign on to the show:

Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonell both said that Battlestar's "mission statement" written by Ron Moore is what convinced them to do the show. It was inadvertently (or, rather, without Moore's knowledge) stapled to their copies of the miniseries script.

I was wondering what the statement said and luckily was able to find a copy thanks to BattlestarGalactica.com.  It wasn't quite what I expected.

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It is interesting to read through this now that we are two seasons in. Do you think the majority of it has held up? There are a few small things that jumped out... no sound in space for instance... They tend to use muffled sounds, but sound nonetheless. That is a small one though. Any big inconsistencies you see with the mission statement?