I mean it’s pretty well explained in the movie that there is actually an entire ecosystem of giant life forms living in the center of the planet, and that they sometimes accidentally find tunnels out into our world, duh! -pushes up glasses on face-
And they’re all nuclear powered.
But being that deep would compound the square-cube problem.
You would think so intuitively, but once you pass Max q it actually reverses polarity and you become lighter!
Like putting too much air in a balloon!
Godzila for one is powered by ✨nuclear energy ✨
Does he eat nuclear energy? Or does he like chow down on some humpbacks every day?
Is Godzilla the real reason the Japanese whaling fleet won’t stop?
Their whaling fleet is a cover for his late night snacks. As near apex predators they have the highest concentration of radiation from Fukushima Daichi. Kinda like DDT and bald eagles.
But luckily we have Gojiro which is a natural sink for radiation 🥳👌🏽✨
He drinks water and fuses the hydrogen into helium. This needs some deuterium to start off, which is why godzillas only occur in nuclear testing sites.
The oxygen concentration in today’s admoaphere would not be enough. That’s why bringing dinos backs wouldn’t work. That and Nedry.
But what if we gave each dinosaur an oxygen mask?
Now there’s an idea…
um what/who is Nedrid? google didn’t help
I think he means Nedry, a character in Jurassic Park.
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You also can’t just scale things up and have them work the same way. I forget if there’s a proper name for this but weight is related to volume which is the cube of the dimension, but pressure is related to area which is the square of the dimension. So giant king kongs ankles aren’t looking so great right now as the pressure will increase with scale.
Fittingly enough, this is called the Square-Cube law
Thank you! I was sure it had a name.
Massive flocks of meaty birds. Like Godzilla-sized plankton that can fly.
I hate that this is even a thing.
- Godzilla is a metaphor (either intended or simply ingrained in the Japanese psyche) for Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- King Kong is a “Beauty and the Beast” love story
They are from different eras and are important films in their own way.
But we end up getting this shite because monsters must fight monsters, apparently.
It’s all a load of fucking shit and devalues the importance of each movies. It should never have been made.
Anyway, I haven’t seen the movie but Godzilla would win. Atomic breath. Come on guys, the monkey’s dead meat that you can’t touch for a hundred thousand years.
- Godzilla is a metaphor (either intended or simply ingrained in the Japanese psyche) for Hiroshima and Nagasaki
From what I’ve gathered, not quite. The film showed up around the time of the Castle Bravo tests at the Bikini Atoll. The bomb tested there turned out to be dirtier than predicted, and fallout made it to some Japanese fishing vessels. It became a bit of an international incident.
And then the original Gojira film launched. And one early scene showed a fishing boat, which went under in a bright flash of light.
Gojira, or Godzilla as he was westernised, was not just the personification of the bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was the personification of the fact that this could happen again.
Yes, you’re absolutely right, I’d forgotten about that.
I think my main point is still valid though - Godzilla is a physical manifestation of the destruction that nuclear activity can cause.
As I read on another post somewhere: “Ask a Japanese, and radiation creates monsters. Ask an American, and radiation creates superheros.”
And that part still holds. As Godzilla moved (surprisingly quickly) from existential horror to pulp action, the radiation theme endured.
Shin Godzilla was great for following the original idea behind the first movie. Also that version of Godzilla would kick King Kongs monkey ass every day of the week.
Do you still like Pacific Rim though?
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Bonk!!!
The book Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi actually explains this for the megafauna in its universe. It’s not a perfect explanation but it does well enough
Oh shit, have not heard about this book and need one for my upcoming vacation. Gonna look into this!
It’s a great vacation read! It’s pretty light and fun, I’d recommend it for that
Hummm… Tokio, evidently.
Gamera could totally take both of them.
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It’s a science meme community
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But we got to talk about the Square-Cube law
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Don’t worry. @mriormro is already intimately familiar with the square cube law because of his mum.
