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Heh. I have to question the intelligence of any research department — corporate, scholarly or governmental — that would keep all of its research in a place where it could be completely wiped out by one fire.
rESULTS, SURE. But experiments? They're one of a kind projects. Petri dishes, etc. You don't run two experiments simultaneously in 2 different labs. You have one lab, one experiment and if the lab burns, years of work is gone. Gone. Tens of thousands of dollars. Gone. You've been developing a strain of something, growing it for years, ready to test results and your lab burns down. You can't get that from the back-up server. It's physical work that's so subject to terroristm, duh that's why they burned down the lab, they knew it would ruin years of research. Years. Tens of thousands of dollars. Oh, heck prob 6 figures, not 5.