Rarely do researchers get an opportunity to get 15 minutes of fame like right now. Anyone successfully recreating LK99 can * Potentially do it better/purer *

Rarely do researchers get an opportunity to get 15 minutes of fame like right now. Anyone successfully recreating LK99 can * Potentially do it better/purer * Get a few news articles, and a mention in a very high traffic Wikipedia page * Again if they do it well, get 8 figures in funding pretty easily. While during any other day they might be fighting for $50,000 here and $100,000 there