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<blockquote data-quote="Bullgrit" data-source="post: 6166647" data-attributes="member: 31216">For the record, I don't mean a tsunami like seen in disaster movies, but rather a noticable swell. But just now looking up the size of various war ships, (aircraft carriers and battleships), I see my visualizations of the size of kaiju is off, considerably. The Nimitz CV is over three times longer than a kaiju. I was thinking that a carrier-sized object (100,000+ tons) rising with some speed from the depths would register on the ocean sensors. But a kaiju is not as big as I was thinking. I've been on two US carriers, and now kaiju seem disappointingly small. So, yeah, OK, no ocean detection of one coming.That would be one hell of a job for diplomacy. There would be a lot of, &quot;We had it contained and was working on killing it,&quot; versus, &quot;It might have come after us very shortly and couldn't wait for you to end it.&quot; Possibly some nation would make a pre-emptive strike, but I highly doubt it would accepted by the rest of the world with a, &quot;well, they had to do what they had to do.&quot; There'd be no end to second guessing. It's one thing for a monster to kill a million people over a few days, and something else for another nation to kill a million people in a second.I don't know. Would Japan let in Chinese scientists if China just nuked Japan, even to target the kaiju? Would Russia want US scientists getting their hands on kaiju bone? Would the US want blackmarketeers getting kaiju blood? I think kaiju would be considered &quot;weapons grade&quot; everything, and everyone would want a part of one, and would want no one else having access to one.Bullgrit</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bullgrit, post: 6166647, member: 31216"] For the record, I don't mean a tsunami like seen in disaster movies, but rather a noticable swell. But just now looking up the size of various war ships, (aircraft carriers and battleships), I see my visualizations of the size of kaiju is off, considerably. The Nimitz CV is over three times longer than a kaiju. I was thinking that a carrier-sized object (100,000+ tons) rising with some speed from the depths would register on the ocean sensors. But a kaiju is not as big as I was thinking. I've been on two US carriers, and now kaiju seem disappointingly small. So, yeah, OK, no ocean detection of one coming. That would be one hell of a job for diplomacy. There would be a lot of, "We had it contained and was working on killing it," versus, "It might have come after us very shortly and couldn't wait for you to end it." Possibly some nation would make a pre-emptive strike, but I highly doubt it would accepted by the rest of the world with a, "well, they had to do what they had to do." There'd be no end to second guessing. It's one thing for a monster to kill a million people over a few days, and something else for another nation to kill a million people in a second. I don't know. Would Japan let in Chinese scientists if China just nuked Japan, even to target the kaiju? Would Russia want US scientists getting their hands on kaiju bone? Would the US want blackmarketeers getting kaiju blood? I think kaiju would be considered "weapons grade" everything, and everyone would want a part of one, and would want no one else having access to one. Bullgrit [/QUOTE]

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