And with the one second delay added onto it (which is a rightful delay).
There would be a lot of issues with bypassing that with a lot of parsing bots as it'd turn into vod unintentionally ddosing the forum.
Since there are 43938437 posts, it'd take a minimum of 73231 seconds (if every topic were 30 pages or less) - which makes it at least a day long and it's not going to end up like that with everything considered. It would also be unnacceptable for us to start pulling data from the database (before people come up with that idea) - you make a backdoor for one and everyone wants in...