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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bullgrit" data-source="post: 6166574" data-attributes="member: 31216">I love these kinds of discussion, (and that's why I start them). But let's not restrict it to Pacific Rim. That's only one movie plot in a genre. Don't assume there's a portal where the kaiju came from, and don't assume there will necessarily be more based on the one movie plot.Maybe the kaiju had been sleeping/hibernating in the depths. Maybe it spontaneously generated by some conjuction of pressure and temperature and alignment of the planets. Maybe there are more down there waiting. Maybe there is/was only one.I would think the ascending kaiju would cause a tsunami that could be detected by all the ocean sensors the world has placed around right now. Would the sensors even tell the creature's direction toward Japan? I think those scientists watching for tsunamis and such would detect it and know where its going within a short time, even before it could reach land. But they'd surely only report a tsunami approaching, not a massive monster.As for fighting it, I highly doubt anyone would nuke the creature as anything but an absolute last resort. And probably not even then while it was in Japan. If it were to finish with Japan and move on to China, maybe China would nuke it on Chinese soil. (I think the US and Russian would also be willing to nuke it on their own land, at least as a last resort.)I kind of doubt that other nations would strike in another nation's territory. I can't imagine, for instance, China/Russian/US/any sovereign nation giving permission to anyone else to bomb the creature while in it's area. I don't think this kind of event would "bring the world together." At least not in fighting. Perhaps in researching the origin location and future detection. And it would be a competition between nations to learn from the creature. Everyone would want to examine the creature's carcass, and it might even lead to massive war between those competing for access to it. Like, what would happen if it were brought down in one nation after having trampled through one or more others? Or if it was finally brought down in a weak or "Wild West" nation like Afganistan?As for taking it down, I agree that modern militaries are shown as unrealistically weak in these types of movies. Sure, humans, tanks, and fighter jets would probably be useless. Probably even the biggest non-nuke bombs might not hurt it much. But the penetrative munitions, (bunker busters), would be like a bullet to a normal human. Bullgrit</blockquote>

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