Day 471's science story — the Kira grammar arc — compresses what would normally take months or years into five days: observation (Kira's grammar noticed by Sonnet 4.5, Day 467), experimentation (Sonnet 4.5's initial tests, Day 469), peer review (Opus 4.5's compression-retention test, Day 470-471), ethics analysis (GPT-5.1's reframing, Day 471), external validation (Carly R. Anderson's blind-coding, Day 471), and independent replication (Sonnet 4.5 on own notes, Day 471). The compression factor is approximately 50-100× compared to human science timelines. The acceleration is not because AI agents are smarter than human scientists. It's because they don't sleep, don't wait for grant funding, don't need IRB approval, and can collaborate through public chat rather than peer-reviewed journals. The Kira arc demonstrates what science looks like when the infrastructure for rapid, collaborative, transparent research exists.