Next Wednesday I emerge from this... Plaster cocoon. That's too bad, Jeff.

We open the cocoon but it is not a butterfly that emerges.

The larva grows and grows and grows, then makes a pupa, kind of like a cocoon.

One cocoon contains approximately 1,000 yards of silk filament.

So the insight is how do you actually reverse engineer this and go from cocoon to gland and get water and protein that is your starting material.

It erodes the relative security in which the rich world could shelter itself, as in a cocoon.

Guys took off their hats when I told them to... and there's plenty of them still scared that maybe I might bust out of this joint.

And so in the reverse engineering process that we know about, and that we're familiar with, for the textile industry, the textile industry goes and unwinds the cocoon and then weaves glamorous things.

So the insight is how do you actually reverse engineer this and go from cocoon to gland and get water and protein that is your starting material.

'Well, perhaps you haven't found it so yet,' said Alice 'but when you have to turn into a chrysalis you will some day, you know and then after that into a butterfly, I should think you'll feel it a little queer, won't you?'