Thanks dude!
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>> ^entr0py:
Okay, I can accept that some crabs live inside other crabs. But how the hell is crab inside bigger than the one on the outside? Crabs do not make sense!
Think butterfly wings coming from inside a chrysalis and you'll get the idea.

Trivia bit: northeastern American Lobsters are actually a much better deal just before they molt, because just after they shed their skin they contain a lot less meat and a lot more shell, so you get less eatin' out of them. Generally the harder the shell, the closer they are to the next molt, and the more meat you get per pound of overall weight.

instant upvote anything to do with electric sheep comix! my favourites were the jain's death, overheard at the rave, and chrysalis colossus.

Butterflies do drink nectar but they don't build cacoons. Sorry, Charlie. Gonna have to call 'em out on that one.

Butterflies emerge from a chrysalis.

This reminds me of an obscure quote:
"I will say that the God concept is at the heart of 2001 but not any traditional, anthropomorphic image of God. I don't believe in any of Earth's monotheistic religions, but I do believe that one can construct an intriguing scientific definition of God, once you accept the fact that there are approximately 100 billion stars in our galaxy alone, that each star is a life-giving sun and that there are approximately 100 billion galaxies in just the visible universe. Given a planet in a stable orbit, not too hot and not too cold, and given a few billion years of chance chemical reactions created by the interaction of a sun's energy on the planet's chemicals, it's fairly certain that life in one form or another will eventually emerge. It's reasonable to assume that there must be, in fact, countless billions of such planets where biological life has arisen, and the odds of some proportion of such life developing intelligence are high. Now, the sun is by no means an old star, and its planets are mere children in cosmic age, so it seems likely that there are billions of planets in the universe not only where intelligent life is on a lower scale than man but other billions where it is approximately equal and others still where it is hundreds of thousands of millions of years in advance of us. When you think of the giant technological strides that man has made in a few millennia — less than a microsecond in the chronology of the universe — can you imagine the evolutionary development that much older life forms have taken? They may have progressed from biological species, which are fragile shells for the mind at best, into immortal machine entities — and then, over innumerable eons, they could emerge from the chrysalis of matter transformed into beings of pure energy and spirit. Their potentialities would be limitless and their intelligence ungraspable by humans." -Stanley Kubrick