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.
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.
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.
"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.. :)
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.
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 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!
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 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
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.
>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 hydra's growth. Having 534798543795834797439057348957439749857349857349857349857348548958935683497598346532496593480569034659348439843985643987598347598347584395643986598346543985734985349875439853498574398695734857498563457349856439857983456834965983465983465983579834753498057349857498573980573958734985 +1 +1 counters on your Jungle Delver really brings some joy.
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.
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
I find it kinda funny but with a raw rough conversion of calories. It would seem like Godzilla would need to eat one blue whale Evey five days. Because what I could find is that on the heavier side of the scale of the blue whale weight they are about 330,000 lbs. And as a standard of meat to calories conversion excluding the junk is about 478 calories per pound raw I believe. That should come out to be 157,000,000 calories per whale which would completely demolish the ecosystem. But I am not sure about his hibernation period. So with that in mind. Does he only come out to hunt. I adore your work BTW.
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..
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?
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.
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"
I feel like Forrest mana would be the last type of mana we'd need to cast Godzilla. Comes from the ocean, goes to Japan all the time: Island. Nuclear energy, either Plains or Swamps (pure energy, vs polution). Breathes fire, Mountain.
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.
Thought: In 2nd grade I made a clay model of a Brontosaurus (the existed, didn't exist, back to having existed again, dino) and as I recall (about 50 years ago) my dino's legs were a lot thicker than the image you displayed; which made me think. We keep finding bones and skeletons, but when we add 'meat' and skin to the skeleton, aren't we just guessing? (I mean, we missed the bit about feathers for a long time, eh?) As always, to all, thank you so very much for the learning, the effort, and the videos they produce. Especially now.
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?"
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.
Okay here what i am thinking, what if some of the tail takes some of the Pa from the legs, and could it be thinkable, that it only walks on two legs when in a constricted area. And thereby use his arms to keep his balance better.??
I remember reading that a group of scientists were able to make some sort of molecular motor (nothing too sci-fi yet) that as some output energy. What would be the limits if some mechanisms like that existed in those monsters? Would giant (on ground or flying) monsters could be a thing if they were more like cars for some part of them? Let's have a new look on those big monsters by seeing them as auto-engineered biological machines! Tbh, I'd really like to know, with all we can imagine (and with serious science behind), if Godzilla is a "makeable" creature or not
Hi, I’m pretty sure there is a mistake in the square cube law, scaling the denominator with (mass ratio)^(1/3) when it should really scale with (mass ratio)^(2/3) as it is an area. That makes the last calculation off by a factor of 50, yielding a max weight of 5e7 Kg for a limit of 5e6 Pa.
What if we went to active energy expenditure to reinforce the structure ? Kind of like the principle of how the sun doesn't rely on passive material properties alone to maintain it's size/structure , it uses active energy pressure to reinforce / sustain it's size/structure .. not just relying entirely on the passive properties of the structure (like cartilage) itself .. like electric charges repel each other .. kind of like a magnet train to help suspend the weight .. the mass/weight doesn't go away , the area under the object is still the same , but maybe such an adaptation would allow for the active use of energy to reinforce the structure .. layered like a lasagna , each layer can spend energy to actively help to support a given weight .. in that electro-magnetic/Cartilage/Bone lasagna the stuff like the cartilage/bone can still take some pressures/forces but as the object got bigger and heavier .. eventually passing the passive state , a larger and larger % of the support could come from active energy expenditure .. Given Godzilla is a walking nuclear reactor .. and there is such a large amount of energy in the even comparatively small E=MC^2 masses .. just like a star uses a % of it's nuclear energy just to sustain it's size/structure.
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 ...
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.
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
Gotta love metric system. Scaling is SO efficient
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.
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!"
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...
Kyle: Godzilla is big!
Godzilla: Yes.
Yes!
You contributed nothing.
Cloverfield and Jormungandr: *Laughs in Gargantuan*
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.
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.
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
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?
woohoo finally got sponsors!!! I do miss the glass board though.... markers and marker art was fun.
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.
"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
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.
Please do more MTG content, Also please convince MatPat to play commander with you and the Command Zone
My mother actually met Godzilla once in Sydney of all places , in the late 1970s , she said he was a humble well spoken reptoid .
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.
4:47 you got me mid way through a bag of doritoes. The shame is palpable. :(
Me too, though with Pizza.
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?
Watching Kyle dunk that copper was like watching someone eat a foil Karak-Clan Ironworks.
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 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 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.
Wonderful episode, but I'm still waiting for "Because Kyle Footnotes"
Maybe something like "afterthoughts" or something of the like :p
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...
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.
"Great Weight Giver" sounds like it could be a card name.
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!
It's a good thing Kyle started using D class for guards in some areas.
You did it!
You finally did it!
Getting sponsored by Wotc!
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
As always, thanks for the amazing content Kyle!
Kyle: another king of the jungle...
Me: king kong!
Kyle: the lion.
Me: dammit!, Dammit! Dammit!
Holy guacamole that editing 😍😍
FIRST SOLO SPONSOR! Congratulations Kyle!
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.
Godzillas legs would be thicker(bones and joints included) than a scaled up Brontosaurus hind end
Thank you for explaining massive girth.
Science and Magic. To of my favorite things together at last
Nice! Glad that even on a new channel you’re getting sponsorships from a big company.
The important question is, what was the art on that playmat?
now i know why Godzilla was so angry when every step is painfull :)
Why can't we actually be explained what things are for?
Schools: no
This guy: I'll do anyway
I've been waiting for a Godzilla episode!
By far, best theory this man has composed of for Godzilla is that his “atomic breath” is an irradiated water cannon.
Its wild to think that godzilla is 400ft tall and 100,000 tons becsuse its a living nuclear reactor
Awesome to see a vid sponsored by MTG
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?
In canon, Godzilla's bones were so strong, they were used as the basis for Kiryu, despite decades of decay.
I love hydra's growth. Having 534798543795834797439057348957439749857349857349857349857348548958935683497598346532496593480569034659348439843985643987598347598347584395643986598346543985734985349875439853498574398695734857498563457349856439857983456834965983465983465983579834753498057349857498573980573958734985 +1 +1 counters on your Jungle Delver really brings some joy.
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.
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
So what happens when you plug in Godzilla Earth's stars into the equation?
I find it kinda funny but with a raw rough conversion of calories. It would seem like Godzilla would need to eat one blue whale Evey five days. Because what I could find is that on the heavier side of the scale of the blue whale weight they are about 330,000 lbs. And as a standard of meat to calories conversion excluding the junk is about 478 calories per pound raw I believe. That should come out to be 157,000,000 calories per whale which would completely demolish the ecosystem. But I am not sure about his hibernation period. So with that in mind. Does he only come out to hunt. I adore your work BTW.
Progenitus is bigger, and has protection from things like size limitations.
LOL
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..
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.
@Kyle Your thoughts on how the biology given to Godzilla Earth from the anime series would affect his max possible size and mass?
Hahaha. You're the second person I've seen mentioning Magic "returning" to Ikoria despite being a brand new plane.
Strangely, this episode had me at “she loves Spam”
And this is why Godzilla feeds on Nuclear Radiation. He doesn’t eat.
The same math can be applied to Hank Pym when he becomes Giant-man
The physics teacher is gonna be mad after somebody shows her this (imagine all the ppl after this vid lulZ)
“Being big is very hard” you got that right :(
Love the quality of your videos, we can clearly see the effort you put into them. Keep it up
Hmm, I might need to watch this again to run these calculations for the tarrasque~
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.
Godzilla obviously have titanium bones. Military grade titanium !
Also, his digestive system is a thermonuclear reactor.
Thanks for giving the LGS a shout out, they need help recovering from the lock down.
The backgrounds keep on getting better :D
A video before a live stream. Man so much Kyle today and that's what we needed!
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.
Omg yes magic meets kaju awesomeness!
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"
This is the content I subscribed for. Also "terri-fying terri-tory" thanks for legitimizing my own terri-ble humor
Really loving the evolution of the chanel. Keep up the good work and keep bringing us great content. Thank you
I feel like Forrest mana would be the last type of mana we'd need to cast Godzilla. Comes from the ocean, goes to Japan all the time: Island. Nuclear energy, either Plains or Swamps (pure energy, vs polution). Breathes fire, Mountain.
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.
Thought: In 2nd grade I made a clay model of a Brontosaurus (the existed, didn't exist, back to having existed again, dino) and as I recall (about 50 years ago) my dino's legs were a lot thicker than the image you displayed; which made me think. We keep finding bones and skeletons, but when we add 'meat' and skin to the skeleton, aren't we just guessing? (I mean, we missed the bit about feathers for a long time, eh?)
As always, to all, thank you so very much for the learning, the effort, and the videos they produce. Especially now.
Yes, it's guessing since there is no way to prove it one way or the other. We just have to make the best educated guess possible.
Great Episode! Learned alot! Love hearing about the limits of biology currently known
I have been in a lift that went 60 ft High dude that's still really freaking tall and would still be very scary and powerful
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?"
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.
Okay here what i am thinking, what if some of the tail takes some of the Pa from the legs, and could it be thinkable, that it only walks on two legs when in a constricted area. And thereby use his arms to keep his balance better.??
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.
I might be biased, but I think this is one of your best videos EVER! Great job!
The math was way over my head, yet at the same time is totally fascinating! Thank you, Kyle, for exercising my brain. 🥳
So what you're telling me is that Godzilla may be a bit impossible, but King Kong still has a chance!?
Kyle did not mention Kong, did he?
Love the new show. Never noticed how bouncy you are in your presentation when you were in the void.
I remember reading that a group of scientists were able to make some sort of molecular motor (nothing too sci-fi yet) that as some output energy.
What would be the limits if some mechanisms like that existed in those monsters? Would giant (on ground or flying) monsters could be a thing if they were more like cars for some part of them?
Let's have a new look on those big monsters by seeing them as auto-engineered biological machines!
Tbh, I'd really like to know, with all we can imagine (and with serious science behind), if Godzilla is a "makeable" creature or not
Hi, I’m pretty sure there is a mistake in the square cube law, scaling the denominator with (mass ratio)^(1/3) when it should really scale with (mass ratio)^(2/3) as it is an area. That makes the last calculation off by a factor of 50, yielding a max weight of 5e7 Kg for a limit of 5e6 Pa.
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
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.
What if we went to active energy expenditure to reinforce the structure ?
Kind of like the principle of how the sun doesn't rely on passive material properties alone to maintain it's size/structure , it uses active energy pressure to reinforce / sustain it's size/structure .. not just relying entirely on the passive properties of the structure (like cartilage) itself .. like electric charges repel each other .. kind of like a magnet train to help suspend the weight .. the mass/weight doesn't go away , the area under the object is still the same , but maybe such an adaptation would allow for the active use of energy to reinforce the structure .. layered like a lasagna , each layer can spend energy to actively help to support a given weight .. in that electro-magnetic/Cartilage/Bone lasagna the stuff like the cartilage/bone can still take some pressures/forces but as the object got bigger and heavier .. eventually passing the passive state , a larger and larger % of the support could come from active energy expenditure .. Given Godzilla is a walking nuclear reactor .. and there is such a large amount of energy in the even comparatively small E=MC^2 masses .. just like a star uses a % of it's nuclear energy just to sustain it's size/structure.
I can picture Godzilla taking his first step onto land and his knees just exploding under his weight lol