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...adjusted according to the mission the plane is undertaking. And because Proteus can fly so high (about 65,000 ft.) and for so long, potential missions are manifold: atmospheric research, reconnaissance and--designer Burt Rutan hopes--launching vehicles for space tourism. Proteus has the body of an insect but the heart of a jumbo...
...interior sounds and the overarching silence by which they and I were subsumed. Something momentous was about to happen, or had already happened, 10 million years ago. I could hear the air. Everything became important--the flesh of the leaves, the braided vines, a macaw overhead, the smallest insect. A bug the size of a piece of dust crawled across my hand as I wrote about it crawling across my hand...
...hear that misfortune truly marches like an insect And when time nears Crushed will be the insect, like the singer Crushed by silence transforming him to sound I know that all this foretells mourning What is being prepared in the garage by that black metal...
Today Gates, grown very powerful and great, sits at the center of world technology like an immense frog eyeing insect life on the pond surface, now and then consuming a tasty company with one quick dart of the tongue...
Breathing life into the new movie's verdant vistas and insect masses presented precisely the sort of complex problems that digital innovators live for--that thrilling "You're kidding!" moment when the boss hands out a visual wish list for the tech guys to make come true. A recent tour of the Pixar studio, hidden in the freeway sprawl east of San Francisco, made clear how projects like A Bug's Life erase the boundaries between technology and art. Model builders sculpt clay facsimiles of the film's characters. Traditional animators act out roles before video cameras to decide just...