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I can't help wonder at the cognitive dissonance of people paying good money to actually be wrapped up in a spiders cocoon. Something about it gives me the seri
by fit2rule 11y ago
I can't help wonder at the cognitive dissonance of people paying good money to actually be wrapped up in a spiders cocoon. Something about it gives me the serious heebie-jeebies .. ;)
- maxerickson 11y agoCognitive dissonance would be wearing a silk shirt and refusing to put this coat on. Thinking of a manufactured product as a spider web is just irrational.
- TheSpiceIsLife 11y agoOne thought led to another and I imagined these new protein based synthetic fibres being used as building materials, and then some virus being a vector for a mutation to the bacteria used to manufacture (grow) the fibres, and future Earth being cocooned in spider silk. Maybe we'll work out how to get the spiders to spin us a space elevator in exchange for a continuous supply of insects.
- fit2rule 11y agoSpace-spiders arrive and make contact with Earth, and at the ensuing world party, mistakenly accept the elite rich, coddled in these outfits, as an offering of sacrifice .. the one of probably a few cultural blunders that eventually unite our two species' in co-habitual free-trade of commodities and .. resources.