The Fourth Apocalyptic Friday

Hello scientists!

I'm not much a movie-goer, but if you've been watching TV lately, you may have seen the trailer for the new Godzilla movie that came out yesterday. Well, is Godzilla possible? If so, could we take care of it?

Well, certainly nothing alive could be as large as Godzilla, right? How big is Godzilla? The problem here is that he only appears in movies, and doesn't have a definite height. In 1954, when the original film came out, the tallest building in Tokyo was the National Diet Building, which is 215 feet tall. Godzilla was then made to be 164 feet tall so he could peer over most buildings in Tokyo if he wanted to. However, as time moved on, Tokyo's building got taller and Godzilla got relatively shorter. Filmmakers had to keep updating him to make him seem large in comparison. In the 2014 film, he's 305 feet tall.

The largest animal on land is the African Bush Elephant, which can be up to 13 feet tall at the shoulders. Keep in mind that Godzilla stands on two legs whole elephants stand on four. For final proof, the elephant weighs 6 tons, while Godzilla weighs up to 60,000 tons. You don't even need to do the math to see that Godzilla's bones couldn't support his own weight.

If he was possible and he was mad at us, we could be in trouble. Godzilla runs on nuclear power, due to his awakening being at Bikini Atoll when an atomic weapon was detonated. That means that he's (supposedly*) immune to any weapon that's not atomic. Any nuclear weapon, on the other hand, will help him. He would just absorb the energy and grow stronger. The best strategy is to used something like the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful bomb ever, releasing so much energy that it would  just be too much energy for him to absorb. Either that or it would give him a heart attack.

Thanks for reading! Sorry for not submitting this on Friday, I was pretty busy. Better late than never, though, right? Anyway, make sure to comment below, and I'll see you in the next post!

Until next time,
Ben's jamin'
Benjamin

P.S. Make sure you check out John's math blog at http://johncooksmathblog.blogspot.com.