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If you wish to make a personal webpage from scratch, you must first invent the universe.



If I want to make a fruit salad from scratch the fruit and bowl can already exist.


This might help contextualise ca98am79's comment:

<https://yewtu.be/watch?v=BkHCO8f2TWs>

(Clip is from the 1979 edition of Cosmos, Ep. 9. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage>)


Likewise, the statement in the clip neglects the baseline starting point of the object.

I know it's comedy science, but "pie" is already a thing, as are apples. So "apple pie from scratch" refers to AFTER the apple and pie have been invented, not before.




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