Thursday, 18 April 2013

Google Breaks Silence on Secret Antarctic Base

The pan-global corporation Google has expressed displeasure at the private use of military grade surveillance drones in a statement released early Thursday, after aerial surveillance of Google's secret antarctic base by the resistance group GASP revealed what is essentially a warzone on the frozen continent. Images captured by aerial drones are showing a mass of thousands of green humanoid beings on an Antarctic peninsula jutting out in the direction of South America, with a clearly drawn line leading back to the now destroyed secret Google base where the cloning arm of their market research department was located. International Business expert Ovaltine Goose-Shredder says it makes perfect sense for Google to object to the privatization of surveillance drones. “You wouldn't want anyone cutting in on Street View's territory, right? And maybe now [Google] will realize it's a little weird to record every inch of the public domain.”

Vowing to ignore Google's calls to cease using private surveillance drones, resistance leader Axel Hjalmar also claimed responsibility for the destruction of Google's secret Antarctic base and the humanesque army amassing on the edge of the continent. Speaking via satellite uplink early Thursday, Hjalmar said that “Over one year ago, GASP infiltrated Google's DNA database by uploading code for creating heavily armed and heavily armoured biometric cyborgs with aggressively luddistic tendencies through Google's blood sugar testing app. It was our goal to have Google create the means of their own destruction through their cloning facility, and GASP has succeeded.”

Having given his explanation of what GASP had done, Hjalmar was then notified that barely anyone had a clue what he was talking about. He attempted to elaborate, saying “Luddistic means a sadistic luddite. It is apt, as the biometric cyborgs gain immense pleasure from smashing technology. It is a word unique to the GASP vernacular, but given our commitment to free and democratic principles, feel free to use it whenever you like.” Hjalmar then revealed that destroying all technology was the ultimate goal of GASP, a goal so obvious experts wondered why they ever tried to hide their aims in the first place. In their view, the destruction of technology must be complete because “Google reaches every technological platform in the world, and thus every technological platform must cease to operate. This is the programmed aim of the biometric cyborgs, to destroy all computer technology on Earth.” When asked if he thought it was ironic to announce the total destruction of technology through technology, Hjalmar concurred. “For the time being computer technology is an effective means of communication. Soon it will not be, and a new means of human relations will exist, one not facilitated or thrust upon by myopic corporate entities.” Despite agreeing that it was hypocritical to be using technology to further his goals, Hjalmar claimed it was not ironic, because as he put it, “irony exists only on rainy wedding days. On this basis, I believe it is a regional concept that is not currently in effect on the east coast.”

Soon after GASP's satellite uplink fizzled out, Google released another statement, and the head of Google Media Relations was made available for a press conference for the first time in over a year. He began by stating that the destruction of the antarctic base is not a setback for Google, as the Cloning for Marketing Research Trial was already an utter failure in almost every sense it could have been. “It was a public relations disaster, and it did not gain Google one iota of data concerning consumers.” he said. When asked if any lessons have been gleaned from the experiment, with those in attendance hoping that some sort of 'don't play god' moral had been learned by the enormous corporation, the Google media representative took to the sunny side of the street. “It did give us some really interesting insight into how humanity behaves in a state of nature, in a grocery store.” The Google representative explained that cloned subjects had the DNA of a human, but that does not necessarily make them behave like a human, and especially not like the human they are modelled after, as the ways we behave and the products we choose are all learned from the world, and therefore not encoded in DNA. “[The DNA thing] immediately imploded our initial hypothesis of finding out what colour pizza box specific people prefer. After that, the experiment became an exercise in how quickly feral humans could destroy a grocery store, and that was a fascinating enough premise for us to continue our cloning endeavours.”

Based on the findings of their experiments, Google has determined several interesting facts about humanity's base tendencies, as displayed by feral humans in a grocery store. “Well, the fresh fruits and vegetables were devoured first, the meats not quite as fast, probably because they didn't figure out how to cook it. Apparently it takes a sample size larger than two thousand to have someone capable of discovering the usefulness of fire. Uhhh, cereal boxes are the preferred nesting material, and many cereals are not even regarded as food, particularly ones that are brightly coloured.” This was bad news for Fruit Loops.

Resident expert on Proto-Human Studies Ovaltine Goose-Shredder was ecstatic about the existence of the biometric cyborgs. “That's amazing! Bravo to GASP for pulling off something I've only been thinking about for years! Biometric robocops, right? Pretty much?” Goose-Shredder was not without some backhanded praise for Google as well. “Congrats to Google for running the 'baby raised in a box' experiment that has been outlawed everywhere with a conscience. Really, just pushing beyond all accepted lines of morality and fucking people up for the hell of it. That's some grade A science right there.” Asked for a theory as to why the biometric robocops are amassing on the Antarctic peninsula closest to South America, Goose-Shredder terrified everyone. “Isn't it obvious? They're coming to get us!”

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