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<blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 6167006" data-attributes="member: 13107">Ugh, a tad too much heat in the discussion.We can do a physical model and figure out the minimum necessary strength of material to allow a Kaiju to walk around.The movie provides good estimates of the creature's size, and we can infer the mass from the reaction to the giant robots, and from an inference of the robot's mass.We see that they move roughly the same a person, but scaled up.(Well, except that one flew, with relatively itty bitty wings, and carried up a robot, both up to past 50,000 feet.&nbsp; Hmm, lets ignore that, since it doubles down and more on the physics.)Doesn't matter that we can't make a material with the necessary strength.&nbsp; We assume exotic matter that has the necessary properties.&nbsp; We just want a ballpark on the material properties, so to infer what is necessary to damage it.(Hmm, there is a second physics consistency problem, which is that a guy cuts his way out of one with a hand knife.&nbsp; Let's ignore that too, since it implies the creatures are easy to cut through, so should be vulnerable to all manner of weapons.)TomB</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tomBitonti, post: 6167006, member: 13107"] Ugh, a tad too much heat in the discussion. We can do a physical model and figure out the minimum necessary strength of material to allow a Kaiju to walk around. The movie provides good estimates of the creature's size, and we can infer the mass from the reaction to the giant robots, and from an inference of the robot's mass. We see that they move roughly the same a person, but scaled up. (Well, except that one flew, with relatively itty bitty wings, and carried up a robot, both up to past 50,000 feet. Hmm, lets ignore that, since it doubles down and more on the physics.) Doesn't matter that we can't make a material with the necessary strength. We assume exotic matter that has the necessary properties. We just want a ballpark on the material properties, so to infer what is necessary to damage it. (Hmm, there is a second physics consistency problem, which is that a guy cuts his way out of one with a hand knife. Let's ignore that too, since it implies the creatures are easy to cut through, so should be vulnerable to all manner of weapons.) TomB [/QUOTE]

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