Possible answer to this one - don't forget that Metropolis was always shown as being slightly ahead of here in the real world when it came to technology. Particularly, often, when it came to computers.

Perhaps their computers work just a little faster and more successfully than ours do. goofy

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Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly.
Aramis: Yes, sorry.
Athos: No, no, by all means, let's keep things suicidal.

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