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Godzilla's Atomic Breath - Feasible Explanation


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Many people say that Godzilla's bright blue atomic breath is unrealistic. I think I have a decent explanation.

Godzilla is obviously a nuclear monster. One of the byproducts of a nuclear reaction is krypton (Kr) gas, which, when charged, is white with a bright blue tinge. This means that Godzilla's atomic breath is possibly supercharged krypton vomit.

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What if it were essentially nuclear salt-water rocket exhaust? It would be moving at a significant fraction of the speed of light, making it mega destructive, and the intense neutron flux could conceivably give rise to bright blue Cherenkov radiation, in addition to charged krypton plasma. So maybe it's BOTH supercharged krypton vomit AND relativistic steam plasma.

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"Feasible explanation" for something that can't exist in the first place? Sounds legit.

If you told somebody a two thousand years ago three men would go to the moon on a vessel 300' tall and 33' they would have told you that it would have been impossible, nothing that tall could have a base so small.

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If you told somebody a two thousand years ago three men would go to the moon on a vessel 300' tall and 33' they would have told you that it would have been impossible, nothing that tall could have a base so small.

This is not technology, but an organism. Organisms can't deal with plasma.

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so the critters in that movie metabolize radioactive isotopes. explain that one.

Perhaps they use the radioactive energy to aid in the synthesis of nutrients, similar to how plants use light.

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Theodore Gray may have a more organic solution.

It's a thermal lance made from bacon and pure oxygen.

http://www.popsci.com/bacon

Perhaps they use the radioactive energy to aid in the synthesis of nutrients, similar to how plants use light.

"Radiosynthesis" like photosynthesis/chemosynthesis maybe?

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