I'm glad Toho started making good monster movies again.
I'm glad Toho started making good monster movies again.
We can assume that a larger snail moves faster simply by nature of being bigger. If we assume the snail's movement speed scales linearly with its size we can estimate its speed.
In the image he is twice as tall as the buildings which appear to be about 4 stories tall. 14 feet per story, times 8 = 112 feet. A snail is about 1.5 inches tall.
112 feet is 1344 inches. Divided by snail height, this snail appears to be about 900 times larger than normal.
Humans sprint at about 14 mph. A normal snail moves at 0.03 mph. Multiply that by 900 and our giant snail clocks in at 27 mph! Better find a car if you don't want to drown in snail mucus.
42Fortunately, snail speed doesn‘t scale linearly with size, as the relativ slowing down of oxygen diffusion into the cells would shut down metabolic processes in the snail and lead to its asphyxiation.
20I remember reading once that the human skeleton couldn't possibly support a 50-foot giant. Or even a 10-foot giant. The world's tallest people have all kinds of skeletal issues. The tallest man in recorded history, Robert Wadlow 8 ft 11.1 in (2.72 m), had to wear leg braces because his leg bones were so brittle. Also, he couldn't feel anything in his lower legs and feet because his nerves down there just didn't have the energy to make it to his brain.
18Can't apply normal physics to Kaiju. They'd all collapse. Mass increases faster than height and their bones/shells/exoskeletons would break.
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Drive to survive
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The giant snails tried their invasion in the middle ages, but were fought off by knights. All that's left of them is some doodles in the margins of medieval manuscripts.
9I shall gently perambulate in some direction other than directly towards it... unless I'm feeling feisty, and wanna try to ride that like a bad cowboy!? 🤠
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Good thing I carry a 20kg bag of salt with me everywhere!
6Looks like Peter forgot about relative velocity.
5Reminds me of Invader Zim
3Godzilla would make escargot from Snailax here
3Goga.*
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Aww…snails! Cute.
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