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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Strength squares as you scale up but mass cubes; creatures this large wouldn't be able to move their own body weight.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This must be the real reason we have earthquakes.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

A quick search suggests scientists haven't definitively proven it isn't the cause.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I accept this new theory without any further consideration.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

First one to fall on top of their opponent wins.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

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.