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I always laugh when stealing research data of ongoing work is an import plot point. Making sense of it can be hard for the person who wrote it, let alone a close colleague, but a stranger? Haha, good luck.

Fiction aside, funding makes a difference here. Give non military science funds comparable to hollywood movies and we'll likely go from 2 years to a few months.

AIUI, they could get a good impression pretty quickly, but if you're publishing, you want to be _sure_.

Actually getting permission to do the required testing also probably took a while.

That might make the movies a little too long.