Post by rabidbite on Sept 30, 2014 18:02:00 GMT -5
(Movie Spoiler Warning, just in case)
I have a weakness.
My weakness is monsters. There is something about the darn creatures, from tiny slithering things that infest your brain to towering monstrosities like Nemesis and Godzilla, that I find very compelling.
So. As I look at the Godzilla movie and roll my eyes at how little screen time the "King of Monsters" gets in its own movie, I wondered.
WOULD a megatonic A-bomb kill Godzilla?
The reason they think this will work in the movie is that the very BLAST (not the radiation) would pulverize Godzilla.
Now, I tentatively say it would have worked even if Godzilla is written as a ridiculously over-the-top monster.
Known Canon abilities.
(Forget the fight of Godzilla vs King Kong That was done by Toho. Not canon in the least)
1. Godzilla has the regeneration factor of Wolverine. - Believe it or not, that massive towering monstrosity can regenerate almost any wound as long as it has radiation.
2. Godzilla spends its time in or around the two deepest parts of the Pacific Ocean. The Abyssopelagic layer and the deeper Hadopelagic layer. Now simply calculate the water pressure at Seabed (around 6000meters) its 8762.05psi. The Overpressure of an atomic bomb has an equation. Overpressure equation P=2410(mass/Volume)^.72. So mass =50megatons or 50,000,000 tons of TNT. Let's put a Volume of hmm 1000^3 meters. That yields 5,824,725 bars = 388,315 Psi. According to this, Godzilla would have been turned into paste. Yet according to this as well, 10kTons would have killed Godzilla. Soooo, I guess the big old lizard might be a lot tougher than we believe? Still think the big nuke would do the trick.
3. Fireball - This might work as well. Thermal damage from an H-bomb reaches 100,000,000°C. Yes that would roast the FRACK out of Godzilla. Two things mitigate this damage. A. The heat has to get through Godzilla's Ultra Mega Pressure resistant skin. B. There is a lot of Godzilla to roast and thermal absorption is not instantaneous. So, the heat HAS to completely atomize Godzilla in AN INSTANT or C. All that yummy radiation regenerates the King of Monsters back to full health. (FRACK. He won't die!)
4. Radiation Exposure - (Laughs and waves hand for next possibility).
So, Godzilla, and around 58 miles all around, would have been reduced to ... splat. It would take around ... oh .. say 1 or 2 hours to get far enough away to not atomize San Francisco if you're traveling on a SPEED BOAT at an awesome 50MPH . You also need someone to drive the boat, or an autopilot, as the waves will throw the boat around like a kid in fun house. You'll also break your back unless you're properly cushioned. You know ... waves? Non flat surfaces? Moving medium?
Oh well. The Godzilla bomb should have destroyed San Franciso at 50 megatons, unless the yield was closer to 1 megaton or maybe 2.
Man, I hate how little attempt there is in these movies to add believability to the unbelievable.
rabid
I have a weakness.
My weakness is monsters. There is something about the darn creatures, from tiny slithering things that infest your brain to towering monstrosities like Nemesis and Godzilla, that I find very compelling.
So. As I look at the Godzilla movie and roll my eyes at how little screen time the "King of Monsters" gets in its own movie, I wondered.
WOULD a megatonic A-bomb kill Godzilla?
The reason they think this will work in the movie is that the very BLAST (not the radiation) would pulverize Godzilla.
Now, I tentatively say it would have worked even if Godzilla is written as a ridiculously over-the-top monster.
Known Canon abilities.
(Forget the fight of Godzilla vs King Kong That was done by Toho. Not canon in the least)
1. Godzilla has the regeneration factor of Wolverine. - Believe it or not, that massive towering monstrosity can regenerate almost any wound as long as it has radiation.
2. Godzilla spends its time in or around the two deepest parts of the Pacific Ocean. The Abyssopelagic layer and the deeper Hadopelagic layer. Now simply calculate the water pressure at Seabed (around 6000meters) its 8762.05psi. The Overpressure of an atomic bomb has an equation. Overpressure equation P=2410(mass/Volume)^.72. So mass =50megatons or 50,000,000 tons of TNT. Let's put a Volume of hmm 1000^3 meters. That yields 5,824,725 bars = 388,315 Psi. According to this, Godzilla would have been turned into paste. Yet according to this as well, 10kTons would have killed Godzilla. Soooo, I guess the big old lizard might be a lot tougher than we believe? Still think the big nuke would do the trick.
3. Fireball - This might work as well. Thermal damage from an H-bomb reaches 100,000,000°C. Yes that would roast the FRACK out of Godzilla. Two things mitigate this damage. A. The heat has to get through Godzilla's Ultra Mega Pressure resistant skin. B. There is a lot of Godzilla to roast and thermal absorption is not instantaneous. So, the heat HAS to completely atomize Godzilla in AN INSTANT or C. All that yummy radiation regenerates the King of Monsters back to full health. (FRACK. He won't die!)
4. Radiation Exposure - (Laughs and waves hand for next possibility).
So, Godzilla, and around 58 miles all around, would have been reduced to ... splat. It would take around ... oh .. say 1 or 2 hours to get far enough away to not atomize San Francisco if you're traveling on a SPEED BOAT at an awesome 50MPH . You also need someone to drive the boat, or an autopilot, as the waves will throw the boat around like a kid in fun house. You'll also break your back unless you're properly cushioned. You know ... waves? Non flat surfaces? Moving medium?
Oh well. The Godzilla bomb should have destroyed San Franciso at 50 megatons, unless the yield was closer to 1 megaton or maybe 2.
Man, I hate how little attempt there is in these movies to add believability to the unbelievable.
rabid
so whatever mean they use, they'll find a pseudo explanation (mostly with scientific look) to kill him but he would survive nonetheless.
