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Not really. Pixar has to render a movie before you can download it. Pfizer has to develop the medicine before you can synthesize it.


A more apt analogy would be to make the movie again, frame by frame, using different voice actors maybe and slightly changing the character looks. Sure, they are skipping over the long process of writing and refining a script, painfully planning and directing the movie over many years and then carefully editing it to perfection, but it's not quite the same as downloading the finished movie.




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