[Swizec]

You still get in trouble I think. Have any political regimes been stable enough in the past 222 yaers for the trust to survive?

All of Europe has gone through multiple revolutions, USA was only 30 years old back then so you wouldn’t have considered it ... that leaves what, the UK? Any parts of Asia that survived since 1797?

[jaco8]

With travel time that long , you have to consider technological advancement at home. Just imagine that you look out of your window after travelling for 70 years and there is this other ship overtaking yours with ease.

[Swizec]

Going down in history as "First to leave, last to arrive". Brutal

[jackvalentine]

The colony of New South Wales was founded in 1788 and there is a fairly direct lineage of laws from there to modern-day Australia, and going backwards also a direct lineage of laws in Britain.

Nothing is risk-free, diversify! The likeliest outcome aside from coming back to nothing is you come back to an institution that is nothing like what it started.