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fandomhigh2012-09-25 02:45 am
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Mad Science & You: Week 5 (Tuesday, Period 3)
This week, the Danger Shop had been set up to look like a nice residential neighbourhood in mid-50s Tokyo. Neat rows of small wooden houses and apartments lined the cramped street. A small fish tank with a few goldfish in it had inexplicably been set up on a table in the middle of the street, but the whole area was kind of pleasant.
Or it would have been, if not for the giant lizard stomping across the city, destroying everything in its path.
"As you're probably aware," Prof Tomoe said to the assembled class, "Japan suffers from an unusually high number of supernatural attacks every year, usually in the Kanto Region in and around Tokyo. Today, we're going to talk a little bit about kaiju, the giant monsters who enjoy destroying Tokyo. Specifically, that one." He pointed up towards the lizard, who was busy reigning down fiery death on Shibuya Ward.
"Gojira, often referred to as Godzilla in English. While Gojira has been spotted in Japan at least 28 times, it first appeared in 1954 as an unstoppable force of destruction after having been woken up by American nuclear testing. Nothing could harm it. Missiles didn't work. Electrocution didn't work. Pointy sticks didn't work. The only person to come up with a solution that could work was Dr Daisuke Serizawa."
He picked up a vial of liquid from the table. "This is Dr Serizawa's Oxygen Destroyer. It degenerates oxygen atoms once poured into liquid, instantly killing anything in the water." He poured the liquid into the tank. In less than a minute, the fish has been stripped clean down to the bonesin extremely handwavey movie science.
"Pouring this into Tokyo Bay will likely kill Gojira and stop its reign of terror, thus saving millions of people. On the other hand, not only will it kill everything else in the bay as well, but other countries will find out about the Oxygen Destroyer and see it as a potential new weapon to be used in chemical warfare."
The monster roared again, and started stomping further into the city.
"So a discussion question for you this week," Prof Tomoe said. "If you were Dr Serizawa, what would you do? Use the Oxygen Destroyer to stop the monster and save the city, but unleash a new weapon of mass destruction on the world? Or choose not to use the Oxygen Destroyer, and hope that something else will work to stop the monster, letting thousands of people die in the meantime?"
Or it would have been, if not for the giant lizard stomping across the city, destroying everything in its path.
"As you're probably aware," Prof Tomoe said to the assembled class, "Japan suffers from an unusually high number of supernatural attacks every year, usually in the Kanto Region in and around Tokyo. Today, we're going to talk a little bit about kaiju, the giant monsters who enjoy destroying Tokyo. Specifically, that one." He pointed up towards the lizard, who was busy reigning down fiery death on Shibuya Ward.
"Gojira, often referred to as Godzilla in English. While Gojira has been spotted in Japan at least 28 times, it first appeared in 1954 as an unstoppable force of destruction after having been woken up by American nuclear testing. Nothing could harm it. Missiles didn't work. Electrocution didn't work. Pointy sticks didn't work. The only person to come up with a solution that could work was Dr Daisuke Serizawa."
He picked up a vial of liquid from the table. "This is Dr Serizawa's Oxygen Destroyer. It degenerates oxygen atoms once poured into liquid, instantly killing anything in the water." He poured the liquid into the tank. In less than a minute, the fish has been stripped clean down to the bones
"Pouring this into Tokyo Bay will likely kill Gojira and stop its reign of terror, thus saving millions of people. On the other hand, not only will it kill everything else in the bay as well, but other countries will find out about the Oxygen Destroyer and see it as a potential new weapon to be used in chemical warfare."
The monster roared again, and started stomping further into the city.
"So a discussion question for you this week," Prof Tomoe said. "If you were Dr Serizawa, what would you do? Use the Oxygen Destroyer to stop the monster and save the city, but unleash a new weapon of mass destruction on the world? Or choose not to use the Oxygen Destroyer, and hope that something else will work to stop the monster, letting thousands of people die in the meantime?"
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Most of the other Godzilla movies: super awesome monster fights!
The American Godzilla movie: garbage.