Krabi (in English, “The Crabs”) is a 1976 animated sci-fi short film that takes the concept of carcinisation — the idea that everything eventually evolves into a crab-like form — to its logical militarized conclusion. The film was directed by Czech filmmaker Václav Mergl, adapting the short story “Crabs on the Island” by Ukrainian author Anatoly Dneprov. It’s 10 short minutes of surreal sci-fi crabbiness, in which a military technologist learns the hard way that his crab-inspired robot soldiers may be even more perfect than he planned for.

Watch “The Crabs,” a 1976 Czech animated sci-fi short about weaponized robot crabs, by Thom Dunn on Boing Boing, is the example of a perfect post (for me).

It is free to read, published with a Creative Common Licence, and It summarizes in a simple paragraph a lot of valuable (related) information, with clean links to relevant sources of information:

The Crabs, Original title: Krabi (1976) is a 12 minute #Animation #Short #Horror film:

A sci-fi film that is an allegory about the suicidal character of war waged by militant factions. A military scientist who originally intends to breed perfect robots – crabs, based on the principle “the strongest survive”, that would live on metal and would be an ideal diversionary weapon – finds his plans turned against him but it is too late to change it.

The director, Václav Mergl was born on 24 August 1935 in Olomouc, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He is known for Homunkulus (1984), The Crabs (1976) and Laokoon (1970).

Crabs On The Island is a short story by Anatoly Dneprov.

Anatoly Dneprov (also spelled Anatoly Dnieprov, Ukrainian: Анатолій Дніпров, romanized: Anatoliy Dniprov, pseudonym; real name Anatoliy Petrovych Mitskevitch, Ukrainian: Анатолій Петрович Міцкевич; 1919–1975) was a Soviet physicist, cyberneticist and writer of Ukrainian ancestry. His science fiction stories were published in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and the United States from 1958 to 1970.

He is known best for his stories Crabs on the Island, The Maxwell Equations, The Purple Mummy, and more! Btw, his favourite subject was cybernetics and scientific authenticity is a salient feature of his writings.

Carcinisation¹ is a form of convergent evolution in which non-crab crustaceans evolve a crab-like body plan. The term was introduced into evolutionary biology by L. A. Borradaile, who described it as “the many attempts of Nature to evolve a crab”.

Lancelot Alexander Borradaile (26 September 1872 – 20 October 1945) was an English zoologist, noted for his work on crustaceans and his books The Invertebrata and Manual of Elementary Zoology.

Wow!

86 words worth a complete treaty of history of science fiction, military strategy, and evolution. Kudos to Thom Dunn and Boing Boing.

Beyond this shocking moment of inspiration and hope —it is still possible to believe in a true Information Society—, the ultimate reason why I decided to share this brilliant post here in MindThePost is because YouTube does not allow me to save the link because… this content is made for Kids! 😱

Stupidity² is Carcinisating the society of information!

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(1) This is the only link in which Thom Dunn makes a reasonable concession to clickbait.

(2) Let’s see how long this youtube link lasts

Featured Image: Krabi, Filmbooster