Yet another reason why the Smaug-Godzilla matchup is a quick knockout (or burn-down) for Smaug.
Pah. How about a matchup between Godzilla and Ancalagon the Black?
How bad a dragon can you be when some dude with a glowing rock in a flying boat beats your ass?
People keep saying Godzilla’s bigger in this movie. Now I guess his size changes, but I remember that silly commercial from the 70s or 80s with Godzooki or whatever the baby Godzilla’s name was, and the lyrics quite clearly said “30 stories high,” which is the height the PM article references.
An io9 commenter on the upcoming Godzilla movie:
“Japanese fans say he’s too fat. But body-shaming a giant radioactive monster is never a good idea.”
Man, you guys forget the origins of Godzilla.
He was created by a nuclear explosion, mutating more and more as he grew.
His body is nothing like anything ever seen on earth due to this mutation. He can certainly grow stronger than scientifically ‘possible’.
Clearly we need to destroy him, just to study his bones and muscle. It’d be the biggest advance in Materials Science since the development of plastics.
One of my profs at Cal Poly used to say: “The dirty little secret of the Aerospace field is just how much we owe to the Materials guys.”
A cable material strong enough for a geosynchronous elevator maybe? And *really* tough heat shield material.
Well, suppose Godzilla is not solid meat and bones, but rather, comprised of sponge-like tissues, or has sinus cavities, or bladders, throughout its body. (It swims under water. Modifying the size of the bladders may be what allows it to swim at various depths). We know that birds “descended” from dinosaurs, so Godzilla could also have hollow bones. All of this would reduce the amount of blood, the size of the heart, etc. and result in significant reduction in its mass. But can it reduce the mass of the animal enough to make it plausible? Even so, it would still require an enormous amount of energy to move, and the heat generated may explain why it breathes fire.
Yet another reason why the Smaug-Godzilla matchup is a quick knockout (or burn-down) for Smaug.
Pah. How about a matchup between Godzilla and Ancalagon the Black?
How bad a dragon can you be when some dude with a glowing rock in a flying boat beats your ass?
People keep saying Godzilla’s bigger in this movie. Now I guess his size changes, but I remember that silly commercial from the 70s or 80s with Godzooki or whatever the baby Godzilla’s name was, and the lyrics quite clearly said “30 stories high,” which is the height the PM article references.
An io9 commenter on the upcoming Godzilla movie:
“Japanese fans say he’s too fat. But body-shaming a giant radioactive monster is never a good idea.”
Man, you guys forget the origins of Godzilla.
He was created by a nuclear explosion, mutating more and more as he grew.
His body is nothing like anything ever seen on earth due to this mutation. He can certainly grow stronger than scientifically ‘possible’.
Clearly we need to destroy him, just to study his bones and muscle. It’d be the biggest advance in Materials Science since the development of plastics.
One of my profs at Cal Poly used to say: “The dirty little secret of the Aerospace field is just how much we owe to the Materials guys.”
A cable material strong enough for a geosynchronous elevator maybe? And *really* tough heat shield material.
Well, suppose Godzilla is not solid meat and bones, but rather, comprised of sponge-like tissues, or has sinus cavities, or bladders, throughout its body. (It swims under water. Modifying the size of the bladders may be what allows it to swim at various depths). We know that birds “descended” from dinosaurs, so Godzilla could also have hollow bones. All of this would reduce the amount of blood, the size of the heart, etc. and result in significant reduction in its mass. But can it reduce the mass of the animal enough to make it plausible? Even so, it would still require an enormous amount of energy to move, and the heat generated may explain why it breathes fire.