I was working on writing a new post to put up here, entitled "The Top 10 Coolest Things About Heaven", but this is a more pressing issue. The list is still coming, later in the week, but right now this takes precedence.
It all begins...at about 1am on Saturday morning. Twas the morning after Ryan's party (and what a great night it was), and Ryan and I were Ebay searching for old Sega Megadrive games and hitting up Wikipedia for info on all those old games and whatnot. Anyway, we somehow got to talking about Godzilla, specifically the latest release, the American one, where the monster in question trashes New York City.
At some point or other, we reached a point of confusion. How did Godzilla get to New York City to wreak havoc? If you're saying to the computer screen "Duh. He swam...didn't you watch the movie?", consider these points.
- Godzilla was mutated by French nuclear testing at French Polynesia, a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean.
- New York City is on the Atlantic Ocean.
- There is the entire two continents of North and South America seperating the two oceans.
- He could have swum through the Panama Canal, but that is unlikely, as it is not very deep nor wide, and is pretty much always packed with vessels shipping between the two oceans. He could not have passed through there undetected.
- If he went all the way around the Southern tip of South America, the waters down there would likely have been too cold to support a cold-blooded lizard like him, one that is so used to the tropical climate, warmth and waters of equatorial zones.
- If Godzilla went the other way around the globe (West), then as per the Japanese films, he would've ended up in...Japan! Therefore, laying waste to, surprise surprise, Tokyo. Or if not, a Northern Australian city/township/pub, Papua New Guinea (but where is the fun in watching a lizard knock down acres of jungle? Boooooriiiiing.), or by a real long shot, an Eastern African nation.
- And don't even dare say that he could swim around the top of North America and back down. He'd freeze to death. Slowly, which would hardly make an interesting movie.
So there you have it. It remains to be proven that Godzilla would somehow end up in NYC with a grudge against humanity and a penchant for carnage. Unless you can come up with either a believeable or so-comical-it-must-be-true solution, I will forever doubt that overgrown skink with an appetite for destruction. Prove me wrong kids, prove me wrong!
The Ponyboy
3 comments:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Godzilla female? I haven't seen the movie but I recall something about eggs in Madison Square Garden. I just remembered that today, so wouldn't a female be laying eggs? Like I said, I could be wrong.
And Godzilla, being female, if he/she/it was, would have flown over America on a big steel bird. Like a plane, but not really.
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hmmmm strange guy/girl that godzilla thing was. I met him once. He/she was pretty nice! But Ive never seen the movie about him so i dont really know.
I was godzilla once, but I kept getting shot at, so I decided not to do it anymore and became a teddy bear. You get more hugs and less missiles fired at your head from fighter jets. That's a move toward the positive direction in my books
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