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    What would happen if kaiju were real?
    Topic Started: Jan 31 2006, 07:03 PM (2,067 Views)
    Kuroneko-sama
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    denshi no yousei
    If kaiju were we'd be in some serious trouble. I mean, yeah, you've got the good guys (MOTHRA!) but then you've got kaiju like Zilla that would just love to have humans for breakfast, lunch, and dinner (and a midnight snack). Then you've got Destoroyah and King Ghidorah, and Godzilla can't really be held accountable for a good guy position (look at GMK and 1954). Believe me, the human race would have a tough time existing if these guys were real. Those of us who manage to survive would probably be mortalized.

    We would need Mothra, Kiryu, Ultraman, MOGERA, Jet Jaguar, and a whole lotta artilery... but sadly this all eventually would deplete, and so we're back to square.

    Jeez... I'm glad kaiju don't exist!
    Baka bakka.
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    EternalMothra
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    Not to mention Battra hating us as well, after all in his opinion we are an abomination on the Earth lol.

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    Quantum Joker
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    Your myriad assumptions regarding the consequences of the existence of real kaiju are interesting, but the discussion would be influenced and enriched by determining the origin and underlying biological processes of the kaiju. Their existence would have immense, potentially dire ramifications on our current understandings of physics, biology and evolution, and may also provide an aggressively fitting explanation for some indistinct unexplained incidents and disasters of history.

    The existence of kaiju would automatically invalidate the notions of body volume constraints, a biological law that provided impetus for the evolution of multicellular organisms, and has proven inhibitive for the growth of excessively large organisms. As an organism, whether an individual cell or a collective homeostatic community, increases in volume, its surface area undergoes a proportionate decrease, thereby compromising the cell's ability to draw in nutrients and expel waste products. This fundamental law has necessitated the development of advanced homeostatic body systems within multicellular organisms, to enhance the efficiency of nutriment distribution, functionality and surpass the inverse law. The existence of daikaiju, hulking monstrosities comprising hundreds of trillions of cells, would cast the inverse surface area-volume law into controversy.
    Even taking into account sources of self-generated energy within kaiju, such as Godzilla's thermonuclear reactor heart and Mothra's assumed drawing upon spiritual energies for sustenance, the incessant prodigious nutriment demands of these gargantuan organisms would severely disrupt the equilibrium of the Earth's biosphere. Unless the numerous daikaiju species evolved in conjunction with the smaller placid denizens of terrestrial and aquatic habitats over several millions of years, thus attaining a mutual stability in consumption and mineral recycling, the daikaiju would likely deplete the finite resources and producer organisms to extinction or irreparable . The inevitable migration of daikaiju, as these creatures abandon their ravaged former home to seek sufficient resources elsewhere, would tatter food-web connections and decimate their producer-consumer constituents on a global scale. Such a pessimistic speculation is exceedingly likely, even when one does not take into account the habitat destruction inflicted by these destructive beasts.
    Furthermore, the existence of kaiju would probably have been inhibitive to the evolution of humanity itself. The aforementioned habitat disruption inflicted by kaiju would likely have forcefully eradicated any sparse savannah to accommodate our simian progenitors in their descent from the trees.
    The effects of radioactivity upon organic material would be disputed with the emergence of mutated kaiju, as the advantageous effects of nuclear bombardment demonstrated by Godzilla and others would conflict with our documented observations of exclusive harm inflicted by radiation.
    The spiritual consequences of real daikaiju would also be widespread and severe, as evangelical groups or sects regard these organic kaiju as harbingers of doom, or malevolent entities of the imminent apocalypse. The dogmatic misconceptions endemic within fundamentalist religious thought would propagate mournfully with the existence of kaiju, revering these kaiju as gods (in the case of Mothra) or demons.

    The social and political consequences, including the inevitable widespread destruction that would ensue, must not be ignored, but the existence of giant kaiju would cast many of our most fundamental scientific disciplines, and the empirical resilience of their respective facts and proposals, into controversy. As you can imagine, the scientific ramifications of kaiju existence are endlessly intriguing for this self-described erudite.
    Thank you.
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    TyrantisTerror
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    I think (in addition to the really well written ideas Quantum Joker presented) that kaiju would eventually become just another aspect of life, sort of like tsunamis, tornadoes, and other natural disasters. We'd get a class system for them (the lowest being smaller beasties like Gwangi or Eegah, the largest being ginormous citie crushers like Godzilla, with some classes inbetween) and figure out strategies for dealing with each class, both in terms of combating the monsters and protecting the citizens. We'd also try to predict when and where attacks may occur, what the source of it is, etc. We wouldn't solve the problem permanently, but we'd adapt and survive. You have to give the human race some credit: it's pretty darn resourceful.
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    Cyndi
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    If kaiju were real, you'd have idiot news reporters out there stating the obvious just to get ratings.
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    EternalMothra
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    LOL and they'd probably die very quickly, so pretty soon we'd have no media or newspapers YAY!

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    Scorpius
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    You can bet there'd be many Cloverfield situations going on.

    If kaiju were real, I can bet Donny would save air fare using Mothra. (poor joke I know). :)
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    EternalMothra
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    LOL I probably would.

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    Kuroneko-sama
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    EternalMothra
    Jan 30 2008, 09:40 PM
    LOL I probably would.

    Yeah, you get Mothra, I've got dibs on Kiryu!
    Baka bakka.
    -Ruri Hoshino
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    There are as many encounters as there are stars...
    And farewells...
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    Scorpius
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    Mothra's dust might give people weird reactions, allergic, stoned, etc. Well who knows realistically how it would affect humans. It can knock out kaiju, but on humans, nothing has been shown of that.

    On another amusing bit of humor, you'd have Cyndi be Godzilla's spokesperson.

    Well kaiju fans would be happy to be near the particular kaiju they look up to. :)


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    Cyndi
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    D@mn straight I'd speak up for Godzilla as long as he behaves. I'd be the moron who runs outside to film him for youtube anyway XD
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