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If you wish to make a personal webpage from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
by ca98am79 4y ago
If you wish to make a personal webpage from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
- exodust 4y agoIf I want to make a fruit salad from scratch the fruit and bowl can already exist.
- dredmorbius 4y agoThis might help contextualise ca98am79's comment: <https://yewtu.be/watch?v=BkHCO8f2TWs 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage>)
- exodust 4y agoLikewise, 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.