One of the chief things I was impressed by in the new movies was the concept of the kaiju having a 'nuclear biology.' I'm sad they did so little with the concept. Nuclear biology would allow a host of fascinating abilities such as his cells spinning new elements to build Godzilla's body in the same way our cells weave bones out of simple chemicals. I think that's really the only way you can build an animal that could take Godzilla's weight
@@LogicDuel The Kaiju eat nuclear material. And it's specified several times that they feed off the radioactivity. So they're not using chemical reactions to extract energy from their food, they use nuclear reactions to process it. Your body is capable of building bones and muscles and brains out of simple sugars and proteins, despite the fact that chemical reactions are relatively limited in scope and power compared to nuclear reactions which can fully transform one element into another. In the same way as your body spins protein into a lattice structure to make strong bones, a kaiju using nuclear reactions could spin whole new elements unknown to the periodic table to facilitate its design and metabolism. The possibilities in using nuclear energy to drive a biology are much more vast than chemical approaches.
I think simply to regenerate tissue caused by natural cell death it would need amino acids and some sort of material. I think a more interesting radioactive, and potentially related question is if he has an massively increased metabolism due to being powered by plot. The injuries he receives show little to no lasting effect, heal quickly, he has multiple times jumped which should not be possible given known values for cartilage tensile strength, heck even flesh should rip when he lands either by him jumping or him falling over. By default to the monster existing in any form we can science there simply has to be an extraordinary adaptation that has taken place to increase tensile strength of Godzilla's skin/soft tissues. It's previously been postulated that Godzilla's breath is caused by him having a large water bladder that could inject water into his spicy hot tummy which would allow him to breath super heated radioactive steam, though it has it's own problems; insulative properties of tissue would not allow for the bladder to exist and not be flash heated to steam. So, what if Godzilla's hyper metabolism and potentially increased adaptation/evolution speed (some sort of evolution within a single being must have taken place for it to be able to suddenly be bi-pedal, have lightning crackle along it's spine, and breath super-heated steam, things like that simply don't currently exist) has allowed Godzilla's soft tissue to no longer be homogeneous, but instead a system of layered types of materials with enough space between the individual muscle strands and fat cells to act akin to a thermal mug, using layers of material (usually a vacuum) to insulate whatever is in the mug. An evolutionary change of this sort would allow for the increased metabolism to repair muscles faster as the fibers are relatively smaller and would, if say the strands were coiled like in a cable, increase tensile strength while allowing for a slower catastrophic failure rate, thus more time for repair to take place. Also, we have to keep in mind the majority of Godzilla's time would be spent in the water, so Godzilla, as he only appears for very short amounts of time on land, would not need to be fully functional on land, he could simply have a time limit on how long he can be in an environment which is inhospitable to his body. If Godzilla did need to eat, the time limit simply could be him no longer having enough building materials to regenerate, despite still having his reactor fully functional. Halp, halp I need someone with a degree in biology to discuss the potential requirements for such a repair system to be in place, keeping in mind that Godzilla needs no external power for electrical impulses to be sent, no requirement for thermal regulation, or any other animate creature to stay animate, that are *not* covered by him having unlimited energy from a reactor core. *caveat, we are throwing telomere degeneration right out the window for Godzilla to even exist.
@@Chpow01 That's assuming his physiology is anything that we [currently] understand but if he were a walking nuclear reactor, he'd have all the energy he would need [potentially] for living, moving, and even cell replication/repair. His biology could be such that he can metabolize that energy into rapid cell replication ...
You really should do a series called something like The Facility: Redacted where you talk about the comment on the last episode, the correction and the funny comment. and give away fake award like "you are indeed, a Perfect Grader" or "indeed you are a Paper Publisher" I think that it will be a blast
@@dre4085 r/whoosh David basically described the footnote format, except he used different terms because Kyle likely isn't allowed to make "Footnotes" due to Because Science licensing. Although even a differently named Footnotes format might be questionable from a legal perspective, but I'm not a copyright expert.
On a more positive note, Godzilla being a deep sea monster means his internal body pressure pushing outward would be intense enough to act as a sort of cushion from missiles and explosions. Bottom of the sea is constant pressure, an explosion from missiles while intense is only for a second. Also being a living nuclear reactor means he'd have more than enough energy to move almost non-stop.
Your take on internal body pressure and it's ability to resist shocks is rather brilliant. Thank you for taking the time to share a creative answer like that. I now get to view past and future kaiju films differently.
Math and Magic. I don't need more. Edit: Was hoping that it would be a look at the feasible maximum P/T of the Godzilla creatures mutated in the set via Magic deckbuilding limitations. But i will happily take this analysis too.
Theoretically the game would allow for Godzilla or any other creature in the game to have infinite power/toughness. The card Hydra's Growth could do this on it's own. Cards like Clear the Mind would allow the game to go infinitive. So in current standard the tools are there for Godzilla to withstand an infinite amount of squirrels.
@@schrottinator The limiter is cards and/or player triggers. So you can't really go forever. But I'm being nit picky. Your spot on that there is no rule limit. So in actual play the number could get quite high. It's an interesting idea. Must test on my friends! 😁
Hey Kyle, it's, uh, it's Henry here. You know, the guard you had stationed at Lola's gate? No? You sent me a card for Christmas that was actually a "#1 inmate" card? No? Anyways, listen, I've been sitting in her belly for a few days now, and I just wanted to make sure you're taking Lola's health into consideration. I mean, I don't believe her stomach acid is capable of dissolving hazmat suits and she did just swallow me whole. I mean, I didn't even suffer a scrape on the way down! That does, however, mean she has an undigested organism in her stomach. Also, I'm getting kind of tired...hungry...thirsty...all together not well without any forms of those things we need for our species to continue being alive. Some assistance would be appreciated... ...thanks.
I'd really, really, REALLY love to see a video where someone theoretically pushes the size of a creature to maximum rather than reduce it due to standard biological limits. What if it had graphine bones? What if those bones were more like lattices, how would this effect the theoretical size of a creature?
canonically, Godzilla can mutate every fucking second of his life, so, imagine a creature that can clone itselfs and mutate its own blood to fuse with itself.
Hey Kyle, great video like always. I was thinking about the math that you did in the video. So the math worked with the assumption that Godzilla have a biology similar to earth' s animal. However, what if godzilla biology is not base on animal, but on plant life. I wonder how different the math would be if we switch from reptilian/amphibious biology to giant mobile tree biology, consider the fact that there are many plant base life form and Kaiju in the Godzilla franchise, even Godzilla him self have an alternate plant life biology in one of the Anime of the franchise. I just wonder how different the math, or what kind of math we would use to calculate the sizes for our king of monsters if he is a plant bass life form.
"probable cartilage rupture" thats where he gets the energy to breath lightning plasma doom breath.. if you have ever seen somebody that is bone on bone walking.. you get it.. :)
The discussion on Godzilla size is actually helpful, as I am making my own sci-fi role-playing game, thus it needs to have as much "good science" as possible. This will help me size the massive animal life on planets with similar gravity to earth, so thanks!
I enjoyed your discussion on biological body limits. I have always pondered how gravity, geological activity, climate, practical biomechanics, and abundant elements would affect alien life. A show based off our best guesstimates about what life could look like would be entertaining!
In calculating the landmass it would need to roam, you'd mentioned earlier that Godzilla was also aquatic. Shouldn't you add the oceans to that calculation?
I love hydra's growth. Having 534798543795834797439057348957439749857349857349857349857348548958935683497598346532496593480569034659348439843985643987598347598347584395643986598346543985734985349875439853498574398695734857498563457349856439857983456834965983465983465983579834753498057349857498573980573958734985 +1 +1 counters on your Jungle Delver really brings some joy.
I love Mtg and Love Godzilla. Been a movie monster/Kajiu fan forever. Since a kid with both. Now I get both together! Already pre-ordered my Godzilla Mat and card sleeves for my 2020 commander deck. Shout out Kyle for the Best video since start of Quarantine @KyleHill
>We're running out of pallets of spam. So do you just get one giant Futurama-like can of Spam or do you have Kevin opening individual cans from a whole pallet to put into Lola's food bowl?
i love that not only is your new channel getting some ad revenue so you can do your own thing better but also love that it's magic the gathering - something i'm not too into tbh but i know you particularly love - if you're gonna be advertising some company's stuff to make ends meet might as well be something you're actually passionate about
The artwork in this episode makes it look in places like it's the entry for Godzilla in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, and that amuses me greatly.
Two things that could also make Gōjira more plausible is if it has triple bones instead of 1. Like 3 thigh bones in those beefy legs etc. Also on the food side, wasn't the G-Lizzy born from nuking stuff, so it's safe to assume it has some of that sweet uranium in it. Uranium has a lot of energy, so could "feed" the beastie rather well! Just some stupid ideas, but, that's what makes it fun :p
Cartiledge as it's defined is absolutely relative to scale. The gecko as we know it has a very different form of joint cushion which easily leads to the understanding that larger species would have a different basis for cushions..
My personal theory for Godzilla's bone density is since he's essentially a living nuclear reactor he makes a byproduct of heavy metals which he deposits on/in his bones. Also that metabolic calculation completely overlooks his hilariously fast healing factor he's had since the heisei series. So fast he can repair cellular damage within seconds. I'm sure that rate of repair would 1 help to preserve that cartilage (assuming that it can heal as fast or faster than it's being destroyed) and 2 scale his needed caloric intake to absolutely absurd levels.
Hey Kyle, I am a big fan of your show. I specifically enjoy the way you break down pop culture references using scientific approach. I have a very specific question to you. By any chance is it possible to harness electricity out of Lightning? If so what is the exact math we will be talking about. Do we have adequate tools currently to do this (something like advanced Tesla coils or so)?? I will be obliged if you could answer my question in your foot note episode or in comment.
4:55 - Kyle: "Godzilla isn't eating the junk that [...] you know you shouldn't be..." Me: (Guiltily looking up from scraping the bottom of a tub of store-bought potato salad) "Uh. Where's the camera?"
Well... If you ever watched the mid-70s cartoon, Godzilla is, "Up from the depths,40 stories high, breathing fire, he stands in the sky!" You might've gotten better numbers/results using that much, as a baseline.
I have been noticing, over the last few years, a subtle shift in american vowel pronunciation. An example in the video would be the word "immense" sounding like "Ammense" 12:27 and the other that spings to mind is "Illegal" sounding like "E-legal"
See? A Magic: The Gathering episode everyone can understand. Good job. I wonder: do bipedal animals have proportionally stronger legs than quadrupedal animals since their mass is distributed over more limbs? If so, the brontosaurus is a bad analogue for Godzilla, isn't it?
Circulation is another problem. It's the reason insects are small. Since they breathe through spiracles, holes on the side of their body, and their lungs aren't all they great they'd die of suffocation if they were any bigger.
I was about to come on here to correct you, Kyle, and say there were no such thing as a Brontosaurus. I'd been taught that they were just misclassified Apatosaurus. But when I went to verify I discovered that they'd been brought back by new research! Ya! This was one of my favorite dinosaurs when I was a kid and I hated that they'd been declared invalid. Always teaching me knew things, Kyle. Even if the new thing was an old thing brought back. Keep up the great work!
Marvel Comics Ultimates must have already done this math. They concluded that 60ft was the tallest that Giant Man could go before he would be at danger for things that Kyle said. Like snapped bone and torn cartilage. That was in 2002.
Interesting take. I always thought that Godzilla had some kind of bio-nuclear system, that allows him to build up his own energy. This might also take a long time, depending on what his reserves are or his energy capacity allows. That's probably why he's just chilling in the ocean, cruising around, cooling his heating body and by that, maybe also providing his own oxygen source. It kinda makes sense since he has that EMP in his back scales/fins.
One of the chief things I was impressed by in the new movies was the concept of the kaiju having a 'nuclear biology.' I'm sad they did so little with the concept. Nuclear biology would allow a host of fascinating abilities such as his cells spinning new elements to build Godzilla's body in the same way our cells weave bones out of simple chemicals. I think that's really the only way you can build an animal that could take Godzilla's weight
What do you mean by “nuclear biology?”
@@LogicDuel The Kaiju eat nuclear material. And it's specified several times that they feed off the radioactivity. So they're not using chemical reactions to extract energy from their food, they use nuclear reactions to process it.
Your body is capable of building bones and muscles and brains out of simple sugars and proteins, despite the fact that chemical reactions are relatively limited in scope and power compared to nuclear reactions which can fully transform one element into another. In the same way as your body spins protein into a lattice structure to make strong bones, a kaiju using nuclear reactions could spin whole new elements unknown to the periodic table to facilitate its design and metabolism. The possibilities in using nuclear energy to drive a biology are much more vast than chemical approaches.
So question:
Isn’t Godzilla canonically a walking nuclear reactor and doesn’t actually need to eat?
Yeah, but it's neat to compare it to a carnivore just to see if it could exist in the real world.
Yes and no. Godzilla technically doesn't eat, but he's drawn to nuclear reactors to feed anyhow.
I think simply to regenerate tissue caused by natural cell death it would need amino acids and some sort of material. I think a more interesting radioactive, and potentially related question is if he has an massively increased metabolism due to being powered by plot. The injuries he receives show little to no lasting effect, heal quickly, he has multiple times jumped which should not be possible given known values for cartilage tensile strength, heck even flesh should rip when he lands either by him jumping or him falling over.
By default to the monster existing in any form we can science there simply has to be an extraordinary adaptation that has taken place to increase tensile strength of Godzilla's skin/soft tissues. It's previously been postulated that Godzilla's breath is caused by him having a large water bladder that could inject water into his spicy hot tummy which would allow him to breath super heated radioactive steam, though it has it's own problems; insulative properties of tissue would not allow for the bladder to exist and not be flash heated to steam.
So, what if Godzilla's hyper metabolism and potentially increased adaptation/evolution speed (some sort of evolution within a single being must have taken place for it to be able to suddenly be bi-pedal, have lightning crackle along it's spine, and breath super-heated steam, things like that simply don't currently exist) has allowed Godzilla's soft tissue to no longer be homogeneous, but instead a system of layered types of materials with enough space between the individual muscle strands and fat cells to act akin to a thermal mug, using layers of material (usually a vacuum) to insulate whatever is in the mug.
An evolutionary change of this sort would allow for the increased metabolism to repair muscles faster as the fibers are relatively smaller and would, if say the strands were coiled like in a cable, increase tensile strength while allowing for a slower catastrophic failure rate, thus more time for repair to take place. Also, we have to keep in mind the majority of Godzilla's time would be spent in the water, so Godzilla, as he only appears for very short amounts of time on land, would not need to be fully functional on land, he could simply have a time limit on how long he can be in an environment which is inhospitable to his body. If Godzilla did need to eat, the time limit simply could be him no longer having enough building materials to regenerate, despite still having his reactor fully functional.
Halp, halp I need someone with a degree in biology to discuss the potential requirements for such a repair system to be in place, keeping in mind that Godzilla needs no external power for electrical impulses to be sent, no requirement for thermal regulation, or any other animate creature to stay animate, that are *not* covered by him having unlimited energy from a reactor core.
*caveat, we are throwing telomere degeneration right out the window for Godzilla to even exist.
@@Chpow01 I wanna see where this is going
@@Chpow01 That's assuming his physiology is anything that we [currently] understand but if he were a walking nuclear reactor, he'd have all the energy he would need [potentially] for living, moving, and even cell replication/repair. His biology could be such that he can metabolize that energy into rapid cell replication ...
I never understood why lions are called “king of the jungle” given that they don’t live in jungles.
Jaguars are. No one(but humans) can do shit to these kitties
lolmaster *Panthers
It's just that savanna is not as catchy.
@@aquaepic4768 You mean tigers.
Hands down tigers
Even at the adjusted size Godzilla would still be terrifying lol
Unless you got a Gundam...
Lin Yen Chin no, it’d still be terrifying
You’d just have a Gundam to fight it 😂
But how big Gundam can you realistically build? Hmmm, KYYYLE!
@@linyenchin6773 Man, now we're just Pacific Rim.
@@Zidern Well this obviously needs to happen next.
Gotta love metric system. Scaling is SO efficient
Kyle: Godzilla is big!
Godzilla: Yes.
Yes!
You contributed nothing.
Cloverfield and Jormungandr: *Laughs in Gargantuan*
You really should do a series called something like The Facility: Redacted where you talk about the comment on the last episode, the correction and the funny comment. and give away fake award like "you are indeed, a Perfect Grader" or "indeed you are a Paper Publisher"
I think that it will be a blast
Yeah or just taking back the footnotes, i loved that!
@@dre4085 r/whoosh
David basically described the footnote format, except he used different terms because Kyle likely isn't allowed to make "Footnotes" due to Because Science licensing. Although even a differently named Footnotes format might be questionable from a legal perspective, but I'm not a copyright expert.
@@pixelmaster98 different name same concept works you can own the name you cannot own the concept simple copyright law
@@pixelmaster98 i know that, i was just kidding, anyway he should do something like that again
@@dragullongblackfang8073 didn't know about this, Kyle please bring back the footnotes with a new name.
Kyle: Godzilla isn't eating the junk your eating, that you know you shouldn't be
Me: *looks down at half empty Pringles can*
Kyle: got'um
You're not alone... Kyle sees us
I got called out with a slice of pizza in my mouth. Not gonna stop me though.
*[Looks at the burger I’m currently eating]*
Kyle, why you gotta call us out like that?
I side-eyed the bag of Raisinets sitting on my coffee table...
On a more positive note, Godzilla being a deep sea monster means his internal body pressure pushing outward would be intense enough to act as a sort of cushion from missiles and explosions. Bottom of the sea is constant pressure, an explosion from missiles while intense is only for a second. Also being a living nuclear reactor means he'd have more than enough energy to move almost non-stop.
Your take on internal body pressure and it's ability to resist shocks is rather brilliant. Thank you for taking the time to share a creative answer like that. I now get to view past and future kaiju films differently.
@@Dino3014 Isn't really mine, someone else said it online and I'm like "that's brilliant, I gotta share it!"
Math and Magic. I don't need more.
Edit: Was hoping that it would be a look at the feasible maximum P/T of the Godzilla creatures mutated in the set via Magic deckbuilding limitations. But i will happily take this analysis too.
Math at an extreme enough level of complexity is virtually magic.
Theoretically the game would allow for Godzilla or any other creature in the game to have infinite power/toughness. The card Hydra's Growth could do this on it's own. Cards like Clear the Mind would allow the game to go infinitive. So in current standard the tools are there for Godzilla to withstand an infinite amount of squirrels.
@@schrottinator The limiter is cards and/or player triggers. So you can't really go forever. But I'm being nit picky. Your spot on that there is no rule limit. So in actual play the number could get quite high. It's an interesting idea. Must test on my friends! 😁
@@Maximum_Bacon Kyle did an episode on an infinite magic deck when he did because science before.
In Magic, math is for losers.
woohoo finally got sponsors!!! I do miss the glass board though.... markers and marker art was fun.
Nearly ten minutes to get to the square cube law. Kyle, you tease.
still, a respectable 60-70 foot kaiju can still wreck entire city blocks and murder hundreds of thousands of civilians
@@stevenirizarry1304 at least it would certainly be easier to take down than a 200m tall monster
Now I want to rewatch all the Godzilla films. Thanks Kyle.
Have fun tracking them all down. (unless you already own them all)
LOL.. By cosmic coincidence I watched 4 of the latest last week.
Hey Kyle, it's, uh, it's Henry here. You know, the guard you had stationed at Lola's gate? No? You sent me a card for Christmas that was actually a "#1 inmate" card? No? Anyways, listen, I've been sitting in her belly for a few days now, and I just wanted to make sure you're taking Lola's health into consideration. I mean, I don't believe her stomach acid is capable of dissolving hazmat suits and she did just swallow me whole. I mean, I didn't even suffer a scrape on the way down! That does, however, mean she has an undigested organism in her stomach. Also, I'm getting kind of tired...hungry...thirsty...all together not well without any forms of those things we need for our species to continue being alive. Some assistance would be appreciated...
...thanks.
This is awesome.
Wait, what? Also, who's Lola?
@@WildDragonSong The giant creature Kyle was talking to the whole episode.
9 months still no reply from Kyle. RIP Henry, you will forever live on in our memories ... and Lola, mostly in Lola
@@zuttoaragi8349 But who is that?
I'd really, really, REALLY love to see a video where someone theoretically pushes the size of a creature to maximum rather than reduce it due to standard biological limits.
What if it had graphine bones? What if those bones were more like lattices, how would this effect the theoretical size of a creature?
canonically, Godzilla can mutate every fucking second of his life, so, imagine a creature that can clone itselfs and mutate its own blood to fuse with itself.
Hey Kyle, great video like always. I was thinking about the math that you did in the video. So the math worked with the assumption that Godzilla have a biology similar to earth' s animal. However, what if godzilla biology is not base on animal, but on plant life. I wonder how different the math would be if we switch from reptilian/amphibious biology to giant mobile tree biology, consider the fact that there are many plant base life form and Kaiju in the Godzilla franchise, even Godzilla him self have an alternate plant life biology in one of the Anime of the franchise. I just wonder how different the math, or what kind of math we would use to calculate the sizes for our king of monsters if he is a plant bass life form.
"probable cartilage rupture" thats where he gets the energy to breath lightning plasma doom breath.. if you have ever seen somebody that is bone on bone walking.. you get it.. :)
Godzilla isn't roaring. That's just monster speak for: FUUUUUU.. this hurts!
“Megafauna Menagerie”
Looks like a Biodome to me
Looked like the Creature Slaughter Dome from Borderlands 2 to me
@@insu_na tru
4:47 you got me mid way through a bag of doritoes. The shame is palpable. :(
Me too, though with Pizza.
Watching Kyle dunk that copper was like watching someone eat a foil Karak-Clan Ironworks.
10:27 - you said "three cubed" instead of "two cubed"
11:09 - I believe the "0.409 m/s^2" should be "0.409 m^2"
I expected to see more comments correcting this error.
My mother actually met Godzilla once in Sydney of all places , in the late 1970s , she said he was a humble well spoken reptoid .
The discussion on Godzilla size is actually helpful, as I am making my own sci-fi role-playing game, thus it needs to have as much "good science" as possible. This will help me size the massive animal life on planets with similar gravity to earth, so thanks!
Holy guacamole that editing 😍😍
Please do more MTG content, Also please convince MatPat to play commander with you and the Command Zone
As always, thanks for the amazing content Kyle!
Wonderful episode, but I'm still waiting for "Because Kyle Footnotes"
Maybe something like "afterthoughts" or something of the like :p
You did it!
You finally did it!
Getting sponsored by Wotc!
I enjoyed your discussion on biological body limits. I have always pondered how gravity, geological activity, climate, practical biomechanics, and abundant elements would affect alien life. A show based off our best guesstimates about what life could look like would be entertaining!
I just want to cast hydra's growth on it
Dont forget that eldrazi conscription
Or Colosification.
square cube law is gonna come for you if you do
I miss the colour markers : (
Is there a copyright issue with using the transparant glass and some colourful markers?
The lightboard is too closely tied to the old show. He is trying to steer clear of anything even close to the old show.
@@JasonWW2000 old show?
@@Kornzz555666 Because Science.
Nice! Glad that even on a new channel you’re getting sponsorships from a big company.
I've been waiting for a Godzilla episode!
In calculating the landmass it would need to roam, you'd mentioned earlier that Godzilla was also aquatic. Shouldn't you add the oceans to that calculation?
IIRC in the original B&W Godzilla movie he was said to be the size of a 10 story building- over the decades he got a lot bigger...
It's a good thing Kyle started using D class for guards in some areas.
FIRST SOLO SPONSOR! Congratulations Kyle!
In canon, Godzilla's bones were so strong, they were used as the basis for Kiryu, despite decades of decay.
"Great Weight Giver" sounds like it could be a card name.
Big Ben? The bell inside the Elizabeth Tower? I'd certainly hope it weighed less than 50,000lbs. That'd be one hell of a bell.
It seems Big Ben weighs 30,000 pounds. That's a lot more than I thought.
I love hydra's growth. Having 534798543795834797439057348957439749857349857349857349857348548958935683497598346532496593480569034659348439843985643987598347598347584395643986598346543985734985349875439853498574398695734857498563457349856439857983456834965983465983465983579834753498057349857498573980573958734985 +1 +1 counters on your Jungle Delver really brings some joy.
Kyle: another king of the jungle...
Me: king kong!
Kyle: the lion.
Me: dammit!, Dammit! Dammit!
Science and Magic. To of my favorite things together at last
Really loving the evolution of the chanel. Keep up the good work and keep bringing us great content. Thank you
I love Mtg and Love Godzilla. Been a movie monster/Kajiu fan forever. Since a kid with both. Now I get both together! Already pre-ordered my Godzilla Mat and card sleeves for my 2020 commander deck. Shout out Kyle for the Best video since start of Quarantine @KyleHill
Love the quality of your videos, we can clearly see the effort you put into them. Keep it up
The backgrounds keep on getting better :D
I find it kinda fun that your upper limit size for Godzilla is the height Scott quotes as the biggest he's ever gotten in Ant-Man and the Wasp.
>We're running out of pallets of spam.
So do you just get one giant Futurama-like can of Spam or do you have Kevin opening individual cans from a whole pallet to put into Lola's food bowl?
Great Episode! Learned alot! Love hearing about the limits of biology currently known
By far, best theory this man has composed of for Godzilla is that his “atomic breath” is an irradiated water cannon.
A video before a live stream. Man so much Kyle today and that's what we needed!
i love that not only is your new channel getting some ad revenue so you can do your own thing better but also love that it's magic the gathering - something i'm not too into tbh but i know you particularly love - if you're gonna be advertising some company's stuff to make ends meet might as well be something you're actually passionate about
The artwork in this episode makes it look in places like it's the entry for Godzilla in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, and that amuses me greatly.
Two things that could also make Gōjira more plausible is if it has triple bones instead of 1. Like 3 thigh bones in those beefy legs etc. Also on the food side, wasn't the G-Lizzy born from nuking stuff, so it's safe to assume it has some of that sweet uranium in it. Uranium has a lot of energy, so could "feed" the beastie rather well!
Just some stupid ideas, but, that's what makes it fun :p
Thank you for explaining massive girth.
now i know why Godzilla was so angry when every step is painfull :)
Thanks for giving the LGS a shout out, they need help recovering from the lock down.
The important question is, what was the art on that playmat?
@Kyle Your thoughts on how the biology given to Godzilla Earth from the anime series would affect his max possible size and mass?
Cartiledge as it's defined is absolutely relative to scale. The gecko as we know it has a very different form of joint cushion which easily leads to the understanding that larger species would have a different basis for cushions..
My personal theory for Godzilla's bone density is since he's essentially a living nuclear reactor he makes a byproduct of heavy metals which he deposits on/in his bones. Also that metabolic calculation completely overlooks his hilariously fast healing factor he's had since the heisei series. So fast he can repair cellular damage within seconds. I'm sure that rate of repair would 1 help to preserve that cartilage (assuming that it can heal as fast or faster than it's being destroyed) and 2 scale his needed caloric intake to absolutely absurd levels.
Godzillas legs would be thicker(bones and joints included) than a scaled up Brontosaurus hind end
Hey Kyle, I am a big fan of your show. I specifically enjoy the way you break down pop culture references using scientific approach. I have a very specific question to you. By any chance is it possible to harness electricity out of Lightning? If so what is the exact math we will be talking about. Do we have adequate tools currently to do this (something like advanced Tesla coils or so)?? I will be obliged if you could answer my question in your foot note episode or in comment.
Awesome to see a vid sponsored by MTG
This is the content I subscribed for. Also "terri-fying terri-tory" thanks for legitimizing my own terri-ble humor
4:55 - Kyle: "Godzilla isn't eating the junk that [...] you know you shouldn't be..."
Me: (Guiltily looking up from scraping the bottom of a tub of store-bought potato salad) "Uh. Where's the camera?"
The math was way over my head, yet at the same time is totally fascinating! Thank you, Kyle, for exercising my brain. 🥳
I might be biased, but I think this is one of your best videos EVER! Great job!
Well... If you ever watched the mid-70s cartoon, Godzilla is, "Up from the depths,40 stories high, breathing fire, he stands in the sky!" You might've gotten better numbers/results using that much, as a baseline.
Why can't we actually be explained what things are for?
Schools: no
This guy: I'll do anyway
Strangely, this episode had me at “she loves Spam”
Love the new show. Never noticed how bouncy you are in your presentation when you were in the void.
The best episod yet when you accounts for the special effects. Keep up the good work Kyle👍
Kyle! Awesome video! What 3 commanders are you wanting to build? Kalamax is my fav by far, and I'm guessing one of yours?
Omg yes magic meets kaju awesomeness!
I can picture Godzilla taking his first step onto land and his knees just exploding under his weight lol
I would like to see an episode about overlooked ways people can get into science related jobs. Ways that may be quicker or cheaper then college
Hmm, I might need to watch this again to run these calculations for the tarrasque~
I have been noticing, over the last few years, a subtle shift in american vowel pronunciation. An example in the video would be the word "immense" sounding like "Ammense" 12:27 and the other that spings to mind is "Illegal" sounding like "E-legal"
Ugh god i love these videos, keep em up mr hill!!!!!
The same math can be applied to Hank Pym when he becomes Giant-man
Hey Kyle! I'm loving your channel and each and every video you produce
Hahaha. You're the second person I've seen mentioning Magic "returning" to Ikoria despite being a brand new plane.
“Being big is very hard” you got that right :(
See? A Magic: The Gathering episode everyone can understand. Good job.
I wonder: do bipedal animals have proportionally stronger legs than quadrupedal animals since their mass is distributed over more limbs? If so, the brontosaurus is a bad analogue for Godzilla, isn't it?
Well i think yes. I do not know if the T Rex counts.
Maybe all that pressure on the joints is why Godzilla is so angry.
Godzilla's dietary energy is also supplemented with photosynthesis in some versions, and of course it's "natural" internal nuclear reactive biology.
Saw godzilla on the title: Yeah Kyle is pumped on Ikoria!
Circulation is another problem. It's the reason insects are small. Since they breathe through spiracles, holes on the side of their body, and their lungs aren't all they great they'd die of suffocation if they were any bigger.
3:53 You underestimated his weight. The card art depicts the Heisei Godzilla, which was 50,000-60,000 metric tons.
I have been waiting for a video like this for quite some time. A 60 foot Godzilla would be terrifying.
65 feet, 7.402 inches. Yup, that's terrifying.
Thanks the Godzilla we're on with the sciennanighns. Makes unwinding from all this essential work a little easier. (Thanks Kyle! )
So what happens when you plug in Godzilla Earth's stars into the equation?
I was about to come on here to correct you, Kyle, and say there were no such thing as a Brontosaurus. I'd been taught that they were just misclassified Apatosaurus. But when I went to verify I discovered that they'd been brought back by new research! Ya! This was one of my favorite dinosaurs when I was a kid and I hated that they'd been declared invalid. Always teaching me knew things, Kyle. Even if the new thing was an old thing brought back. Keep up the great work!
Its wild to think that godzilla is 400ft tall and 100,000 tons becsuse its a living nuclear reactor
Anyone else notice the mat isn't bobbing up and down? I think it's mostly held in place by the corners of the container, and their inward slope.
I was eating an egg custard when Kyle pointed right at me and told me to stop. Not going to lie was a little freaked out.
Marvel Comics Ultimates must have already done this math. They concluded that 60ft was the tallest that Giant Man could go before he would be at danger for things that Kyle said. Like snapped bone and torn cartilage. That was in 2002.
Interesting take. I always thought that Godzilla had some kind of bio-nuclear system, that allows him to build up his own energy. This might also take a long time, depending on what his reserves are or his energy capacity allows. That's probably why he's just chilling in the ocean, cruising around, cooling his heating body and by that, maybe also providing his own oxygen source. It kinda makes sense since he has that EMP in his back scales/fins.