Originally published at: Scientists accidentally made a vicious mutant attack hamster | Boing Boing
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Cowabunga!
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Dawn of the Planet of the Hamsters
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Go for the eyes Boo. Go for the eyes!
Source: Youtube clip of Minc with his miniature giant space hamster, from Baldur’s Gate, CRPG, c1998 & 2012, posted by user Sultan Of Smut on 2013 08 06.
I am really starting to think I am a Sam Becket like being but I am jumping in and out of bodies in other timelines that get progressively stranger. It’s like I am Worf from Star Trek TNG episode Parallels, because I swear the idea that mutant attack hamsters could become real would have never enter my mind or was even possible. That said, as a kid in preschool or kindergarten, I have memory of a hamster attacking and savaging another hamster, perhaps killing it- so I suppose this development was a probable or even as enviable as anything else I have live through in the past half decade. At least I have a family and I’m married to the same person…or am I. My kids have been so well behaved and quiet this morning- I am moving though… Oh boy!
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I immediately thought of the origin of the reavers.
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so essentially the plot to Serenity and the Reavers therein …only with hamsters(in space!) [tip of pork-pie hat to @Otherbrother who got there first-est]
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Or some combination of the intended effect of the Pax drug on Reavers and what they did to River to make her into a psychic killing machine.
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Obligatory
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“Accidentally”
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“Accidentally”
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I, for one, welcome our new hamster overlords.
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So… aside from the “mutant” label, I’m not seeing any difference between that and a regular hamster. Damn things go into snarling killyoukillyoudiediedie! mode as soon as I come into the room their cage is in.
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It’s almost as though when you’ve got an intricate, nested complex of closed-loop systems that has evolved over millions of years, cutting open a random loop has unexpected consequences.
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Maybe it’s you.
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Gives more nuance to the traditional French insult.
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I had a pet hamster when I was a kid, and one day my mum poked it while it was still asleep and it bit her! She was horrified, but as I pointed out, quite reasonably I thought, that if she was asleep and someone came in and poked her hard with a stick, she’d be less than happy about it too!
Maybe there’s scope for CRISPR-modified Siberian hamsters being released in large numbers in Russian cities…
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Very possible - the various hamster-owners always claim that their little hell-beast is just the friendliest, cuddliest love bundle ever. Then they bring it into the room, and it proceeds attempt evisceration. Always. They’re almost as vicious as rabbits.
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