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Holy shit! Is Bezos really The Monarch?! That's by far the closest thing I've ever seen to a real life floating cocoon headquarters.
*promote the insanity. I, for one, welcome our new flying overlords.

When you feel like you have no breath, and the whirlwind is choking your vision, your senses close down, and there is nothing you can do to breach your cocoon and reach out....

Deleted scene from Cocoon?

What kind of butterfly comes out of a Maru cocoon?

@bcglorf

i did not posit drones are bad.
i didnt posit anything actually,except to refrain from the conversation entirely.
(our government,not you or i).

you or i can discuss ad nauseum and would have every right to.
we can and many do actually volunteer their time to help those in need,helpless or hurt.
some very brave souls travel to these broken countries to help ease the suffering of ordinary folk.

and you already know my answer to your query.
diplomacy is the only resolution and the reason is twofold:
1.diplomatic talks almost always are started with a cease and desist of all aggression.
2.it allows a multilateral approach therefore diffusing the hypocrisy i spoke about.

many people in this country are reluctant to look at what their own government has perpetrated in their name.
maybe out of fear...or pride.
but in my opinion any real conversation has to begin with absolute truth.

so by my vicious criticism of my governments foreign policy over the past 50 years does not mean that i ignore all the great achievements,great accomplishments and great ideals.

so if i was to posit anything on this thread it would be this:
we have lost our way.
the very things that made us great have become whispers lost in a cacophony of paranoid musings by the powerful and we sold our freedom to be cocooned in the safety of consumerism.
and while the wolves howl at the door we are fed platitudes of american exceptionalism and handed flags to wave in remembrance of good-deeds from days long past.
individualism has been ratcheted up to a fever pitch of self-aggrandizing twitter feeds and selfies.
that a persons self worth is based on their ability to purchase status symbols.
where news has become opinion and everybody has a right to one.
where facebook is a place to post your own,personal cartoon all the while never really communicating with anyone.

we have become afraid little children.

and its time to grow up.

Animal Architects: Mesh Cocoon has been added as a related post - related requested by oritteropo on that post.

Air Conditioned Cocoon has been added as a related post - related requested by oritteropo.

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Or Cocoon (1985).

This reminds me of those guys filmed in black and white during infomercials that try to wrap a sandwich in saran wrap, failing in the most absurdly clumsy ways and ending up burning their house down while wrapped in a cocoon of plastic. THERE HAS GOT TO BE A BETTER WAY.

>> ^doogle:

Whoa. Nature, you freaky!


No kidding.. I only learned last year that the caterpillar is completely disolved before a butterfly emerges. It literally melts down and becomes a different creature.

Thanks for the note, I've fixed it... with a vimeo embed that's better quality as well.
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Ooops!

Thanks for catching that!

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>> ^critical_d:

I highly recommend watching the "making of" video. The link is in the description and while it's very brief, it gives you an idea on how amazing this vid is.


http://vimeo.com/22793735 ...