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I love the passion and bitchiness of the researchers.

As a story arc for a forthcoming film? Sure. But I'm reminded of the comp sci aphorism: physics advanced by standing on the shoulders of giants.. CS by standing on each other's toes.

Albeit that standing on the shoulders of giants was a primo bitchy jab that likened Robert Hooke to a dwarf who rode on the shoulders of true giants.

https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/02/16/newton-standing-on...

https://www.amazon.com/Shoulders-Giants-Shandean-Postscript/...

Max Planck's "Science advances one funeral at a time" could be applied here.

In a way, yes.

OTOH, they seem like the sort of odious, dysfunctional elites who the French claim to have purged back in the 1790's.

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