They literally show the ecosystem in the movie… This meme sucks.
My question is how are these boats so buoyant, rigid, and stable!?
I’ve been a fan of the Godzilla franchise for a long time. I’m absolutely stunned to learn that the films don’t hold up to scientific scrutiny. I feel lied to, and betrayed. How could they do this‽ Everything is ruined.
More like Earth’s gravity prevents living creatures of their size without serious changes to their skeletal structure.
Also, how the fuck do they eat enough to live?
The most “scientifically feasable” of all Godzillas, in my opinion, was from the 1998 film.
One single individual, born out of the radion from nuclear tests. This implies it took decades to fully grow and mature.
Although gigantic, one animal would be sustainable by the ocean.
The film ends with the animal being killed, so, for a change, humans eliminated a bigger global ecological threat.
I thought it ended with at least one egg intact?
Godzilla is nuclear powered. Fusion in special cells.
Kong is powered by plot magic.
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.
Ideally you aren’t slamming all of your weight on your ankles with every step though. If you do that at human scale with normal human weight, there won’t be much of your ankles left either. Your muscles work as a spring to catch most of the force and they also grow cubicly. So i think the law cannot be applied this directly to biological systems. Of course you are right, that King Kong would probably not just be a scaled up Gorilla, but also altered in his shape.
Fittingly enough, this is called the Square-Cube law
Thank you! I was sure it had a name.
Why can’t we just petition to amend the law?
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?
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.
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 does neutrosynthesis kinda like plants do photosynthesis but different.
Strength squares as you scale up but mass cubes; creatures this large wouldn’t be able to move their own body weight.
Godzilla is nuclear powered so he’s not limited by biological energy sources. There’s still the entire issue of the form factor, but for that I like John Scalzy’s take on the Kaiju Preservation Society.
If you stop just before immobility, you’d have gargantuan fights at a glacial pace. Would be a terrible movie, but maybe a cool story or book.
This must be the real reason we have earthquakes.
I accept this new theory without any further consideration.
A quick search suggests scientists haven’t definitively proven it isn’t the cause.
First one to fall on top of their opponent wins.
