A year? some data sets take decades to build up before significant papers can be published on their data. Replication of the dataset is just not feasible.

This whole thread just shows how little the average HNer knows about the academic sciences.

I know people that had to take a 6+ month trip to Antarctica for part of their work and others that had to share time on a piece of experimental equipment with a whole department — they got a few weeks per year to run their experiment and had to milk that for all it’s worth. Even if they had funding, that machine required large amounts of space and staff to keep it running and they aren’t off the shelf products — only a few exist at large research centers.