00:00Oh, what happened Kitty?
00:10Godzilla, scary!
00:13I know, but only in the movies.
00:16What if it comes out?
00:19Well, to find that out, let's answer a monstrous question.
00:24What if Godzilla was real?
00:27Zoom in!
00:30Ever since Godzilla first appeared in 1954,
00:35he's been getting bigger and bigger.
00:38In one of the latest movies,
00:41this beast stands a whopping 119 meters tall.
00:46That's like six times taller than the tallest animal known to have existed,
00:52the Sauron Poseidon,
00:54which reached about 18 meters in height.
00:58So, this makes us wonder.
01:01What if Godzilla suddenly appeared out of the ocean for real?
01:08And shook our cities with his monstrous roar?
01:12Would we stand any chance of taming this wild beast?
01:17Or would we surrender to our unfortunate fate and face the consequences?
01:23Well, according to paleontologist Mike Habib, who also helps design fictitious creatures for films,
01:33there is no need to worry.
01:36Yes!
01:37That's because a creature like Godzilla could never exist in real life for multiple reasons.
01:45Let us see why.
01:47Firstly, because of his immense size,
01:50his heart would need to be extremely huge,
01:54thousands of tons,
01:56filling most of his chest to pump blood up to his head.
02:00His blood vessels would have to be so large that you could drive a car through them.
02:07Additionally, for that giant heart to function,
02:10Godzilla would require insane amounts of energy,
02:14comparable to what a small power plant consumes in just one minute.
02:20So even before approaching a city,
02:23he'd essentially be brain dead.
02:27But, let's assume,
02:30he did use his nuclear power to adapt and survive
02:34by walking on old poles like Titanosaurus,
02:38keeping his head out in front to reduce the effort of pumping blood against gravity.
02:45Well, in this scenario,
02:48the giant lizard would face movement issues.
02:54You see,
02:55whenever you move,
02:56it's because your brain sends signals to the nerves in your muscles.
03:01The fastest of these signals travels at around 100 meters per second,
03:07making the message from the brain to the leg virtually instantaneous.
03:13But for poor Godzilla,
03:15it would take more than a full second for nerve signals to travel the length of his body.
03:22While that might sound quite fast,
03:25in reality,
03:26his nerve conduction speed would be so slow that he couldn't move,
03:32taking forever to do anything.
03:35Even if Godzilla could move swiftly,
03:38he wouldn't have time to destroy buildings,
03:41since he'd be busy sunbathing.
03:44Yes, that's because reptiles regulate body temperature by basking in the sun.
03:52But for Godzilla,
03:54heat would struggle to reach his internal organs through thick layers of tissue.
04:00So to stay warm,
04:02he'd need to spend hundreds of hours continuously sunbathing.
04:08But what if Godzilla were more like a mammal like us?
04:13He wouldn't need to depend on the sun,
04:15because warm blooded creatures produce their own body heat.
04:20Unfortunately,
04:21this would cause another problem.
04:23He'd likely overheat and cook himself as his core temperature could reach 300 degrees.
04:32Even if he managed to overcome these challenges,
04:35his skeleton would crumble under the immense weight of 90,000 metric tons.
04:41The skeletal structure simply isn't strong enough to bear such a colossal load.
04:47In the end,
04:48he would just collapse into a massive heap of meat.
04:53So the only way for Godzilla to survive,
04:56is by remaining in the fictional movies.
05:01Trivia Time!
05:03Did you know,
05:04Godzilla first appeared in a Japanese movie in 1954.
05:10Yes,
05:11in its original form,
05:13the movie was titled,
05:15Vajira.
05:17Sketching Time!
05:19Today's sketch of the day goes to Vishwanath.
05:24Hope you had fun today.
05:26Until next time,
05:27it's me,
05:28Dr. Pinox,
05:29Zooming out!
05:36Little Godzilla!
05:38Ha ha ha ha ha!
05:40Never mind!
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