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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They literally show the ecosystem in the movie... This meme sucks.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, kind of.

They showed the interior of the earth with other megafauna, but how exactly Godzilla or Kong are getting their caloric intake satisfied on a regular basis is somewhat of a question regardless.

Godzilla especially... feeds on radiation? But not just like, consuming uranium ore. He can take a full thermonuclear blast to the face and seemingly heals bodily injury. Maybe makes him feel really full too?

It's handwaved at best, which is fine. Trying to figure out how Kaiju work is like trying to explain The Force with physics. It's just magic, don't worry about it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

There are some real life fungi that are radiotrophic (like photosynthesis but with radiation [ok light is also a kind of radiation but you know what I mean]) So at least part of that makes sense but not the adsorbing a nuclear blast bit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Pacific Rim says they're grown in a lab on a planet that may have different laws of physics than Earth's. They're not naturally occuring, they're engineered shock troopers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

My question is how are these boats so buoyant, rigid, and stable!?