What if they only folded space and their trip was 10 miles round trip?
And suppose they are trying to create a human drone or copy...vermillion tissue might be in limited supply unless borrowed from other species.
They are Europeans and think that calves are the clue to what makes America better. They bicycle in at night to gather specimens, carrying brooms with which to obscure their tracks. Their activity is authorized by the United Nations concordat on ridiculous but expensive employment of peculiar people (UNCREEPP) which is primarily funded from the US contribution to that vast and strange enterprise. UNCREEPP is small, but surprisingly influential, having, for example, surprised America by honoring them with Nobel prizes for Carter, Gore and Obama, to which Americans reacted with mirth, derision, yawns and farts.