What Is Godzilla?The Original Godzilla



The original Godzilla movie was released in
Japan in 1954.  Originally created as a horrific
parable of the atomic devastation that occurred
during World War II, he has since gone through
several incarnations, eventually turning into a
more child-friendly monster during the mid
sixties and seventies, before once again
appearing as monstrous force of destruction
in 1984.











The child-friendly
        godzilla of the sixties and seventies



There are many problems behind Godzilla as a matter
of physics.  The sheer force being placed upon his legs
would snap the bones like twigs.  The largest
incarnations of Godzilla have been officially weighed in
at more than 60,000 tons.  Consider this to a somewhat
standard weight for a US Battleship which is
approximately 55,000 tons.  If you can imagine what
would happen if you tried to stand a battleship on its
end, you may begin to see the problem with having a
creature attempting to support this massive force on
two legs.  His bones would break, muscles and tendons
would snap from the attempt to move, the blood pressure
required to keep his fluids flowing would be astronomical.
The massive amounts of energy produced as a side
of the work required to move would quickly overheat
his body.  Any attempts to accelerate would result in
his organs being irreparably squished as no skeletal structure
could properly protect them from the shock of sudden movement.









Rather than attempt to explain the various problems with a creature of
such gargantuan size, I plan on taking a few of the more ridiculous
events from the various movies in the Godzilla film series and attempt
to give them some hard numbers to show the forces and energy at work.
With the new American Godzilla movie approaching soon, it will be
interesting to see if/how they may attempt to explain various aspects
of this creature, especially as this new incarnation seems to be far larger
than any seen previously.

Millenium Godzilla





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