I’ll just look for a channel created by DP_ConcernTroll

It’s even spread to the workplace – I’ve watched required, important training videos with essential information that’s not replicated anywhere else! No way to search it later for something you’ve forgotten.

Hopefully computer learning will advance to a point before I die where the words spoken in videos will be instantly searchable. Then I’ll quit waving my cane angrily.

Although cars are fine I think there’s a point at which you can change details of the hamster cars so much that even Don Addis would say “steady on now”.

I think people should not do this because it’s an unnecessary endangerment and stress to an animal, with no purpose other than chuckles. 

You know, if you want to experiment/play with an underwater craft powered by a hamster wheel, you don’t need to endanger or terrify an animal to do it. Put a remote control car on the wheel for crying out loud.

All attempts at safety aside, this is a homemade underwater craft made out of pop bottles, with a tube going to the surface for ventilation. A good rule of thumb would be, if you wouldn’t put your baby in it, then it isn’t safe.

I’m honestly a bit shocked at how few people are at all concerned about the inhumane use of an animal in this case.

Your concern for the hamster is admirable, but your slippery-slope argument and your indignation over an entirely hypothetical imagining remind me a little too much of the logic behind moral panics that have done me and people I know a lot of harm. Our pet cats and toddlers strike greater fear into the hearts of hamsters than this every day. :p

And the research into miniature torpedoes … how is that proceeding?

And the concern trolls are strong in this thread. Sheesh. Don’t ever go to southern Peru.

I’m a vegetarian because I could no longer condone the killing of animals by others on my behalf.  But this?  I just found myself chuckling, especially because I believed the people making the video had no interest in harming the critter.  The hamster carrying on as though everything was normal was just funny to me.

Also, my past experience with hamsters and gerbils leads me to believe that the hamster, far from being frightened, probably didn’t really give a shit that it was under water. If it was aware of it at all.