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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bullgrit" data-source="post: 6166956" data-attributes="member: 31216">I love Umbran and you, both, in these discussions.Materials for a lot of amazing things we take for granted now didn't exist before we created/discovered them. 100 years ago, bullet-proof armor was far too bulky to be truly useful to a person, but now we have Kevlar, and every cop on the beat and soldier on the front line wears it. At some point, someone looked at the numbers for what would be required to construct a bullet-proof vest, and they eventually worked out the material.(If it's not completely urban legend, it's been said that Mother Nature, in the form of spiders, showed us how strong thread can be. Thread can stop a bullet. That was impossible.)That we don't currently have a material strong/flexible enough for a kaiju skeleton and tissue doesn't mean such beasts are impossible. *We* couldn't construct one at this time. But we can still look at the equations and numbers and see exactly what such a beast would require for hard and soft tissue, and we can, for the sake of a discussion, assume that nature figured it out so we have kaiju. Referring back to a reference I made earlier -- the strange creatures of the deep ocean. We can't/couldn't create material that could survive the Mariana Trench, but apparently Mother Nature managed it just fine, still staying within physical laws.There wasn't this much argument against a premise when we discussed the Zombie Apocalypse, Martian neighbors, and lightspeed space travel. Bullgrit</blockquote>

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