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In the early 1700's a man discovers his 50 year old pet lobster struggling to shed its exoskeleton. So he meticulously cuts it free of its shell.
After his death his son has continued to cut the pet free of its shell but tin snips are now needed.
The grandson and then great grandson has taken
a warming to the creature and now industrial cutting tools release it from its shell while moulting.
The lobster is now the size of a jumbo jet and can now shed individual sections of its exoskeleton without human intervention and is essentially immortal.
Chaos ensues.
...
Sequel.
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Subsequent, "Son of Lobzilla" premiers.
"I'd like to thank all the little people who made this possible ..."
Prior "art" ... if that's what you want to call it
https://jamesmccaff...-crabs-or-lobsters/
[a1, Aug 31 2024]
Clifford the Big Red Dog
https://en.wikipedi...ord_the_Big_Red_Dog
Just swap in a lobster and call it a day [a1, Aug 31 2024]
Longevity
https://en.wikipedi...i/Lobster#Longevity
I'm telling ya it's all in the telomerase! [a1, Aug 31 2024]
carcinization
https://www.scienti...volving-into-crabs/
[pertinax, Sep 01 2024]
Louis
https://www.theiner...a-restaurants-tank/
Scientists have found that lobsters don’t show signs of aging, which could mean that a lobster may live forever if it’s not killed or malnourished. The oldest captive lobster on record was 140 years of age [a1, Sep 02 2024]
[link]
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We're gonna need a bigger saucepan. [+] |
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I'm sure nobody has done anything quite like this. But you should probably watch other films featuring colossal crustaceans (link), to help understand the genre. |
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Gonna be hard to improve on "Panther Girl of the Kongo." |
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Just to show I'm living in the simulation, a1 just posted a link that shows the top ten movies with giant crab monsters. |
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That has to have been the simulation creating something to match this idea. |
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But on the slight chance it is real, we need to talk to the surviving creators of these Crabzilla movies and ask what the hell were they thinking. A movie? Sure. Even two, but ten? |
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Approved if it's also radioactive and comes ashore to attack an iconic city, using its giant claws to crunch through skyscrapers and its flapping tail to create tsunamis. Oh, and the jumbo jet size version is only a tiny baby. |
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//a1 just posted a link that shows the top ten movies with giant crab monsters // |
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Article title said 10 but actually listed 23. And crabs featured more often than lobsters - not sure which are scarier. |
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As for "what were they thinking?" - I don't know about those earlier ones, but I think I see where [2fries] was going with this. Longevity is key to a lobster getting bigger. And having that come about by people lovingly taking care of it is a nice touch. |
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Did they unintentionally create a monster, or just a really big lovable pet like Clifford (link)? |
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//Article title said 10 but actually listed 23.// |
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Okay, more proof we're living in a simulation. The real univererse is gonna create 23 crab monster horror movies? I don't think so. |
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“There are more things in heaven and earth, doc, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." |
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Philosophy is an illusion. Illusions doubly so. |
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//The real univererse is gonna create 23 crab monster horror movies?// |
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Sure; that just means carcinization applies to memes as well as genes. See link. |
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//We're gonna need a bigger saucepan.// |
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And a whole lotta butter sauce. |
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It's just plausible is all.
I think the experiment needs to be done to see just how long a captive lobster can actually live for. Same with Jellyfish. |
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Sure it will take generations to determine but that's what makes it cool. |
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Will it be Clifford?
<shrugs> |
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Feelers, nothing more than feelers.
Trying to forget my feelers of lob.
Teardrops rolling down on my carapace,
Trying to forget my feelers of lob. |
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// will it be Clifford // |
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