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[xboyonfirex]

[Euchre]

[LaNcEleCtriKuTion]

[LaNcEleCtriKuTion]

[Random_kid]

this is a movie though....
you could be right but when did they ever send in fighter jets?
and if you saw a massive blob on sonar(bigger than a sub) wouldnt you want to send in troops just in case?
Also after 9/11 i dont think the US would handle such a oddity so lightly

[xboyonfirex]

We really don't know how quick the military presence is there anymore... I mean, look at the interview with Matt Reed.

He basically debunked the dates on those pictures. So can we really go off the times anymore?

Buuuut if they were prompt in their arrival, then perhaps its because of 9/11? I mean, our security has been upped a few notches since then... I really wouldn't be surprised if they came as quickly as they did.

[Euchre]

[LaNcEleCtriKuTion]

hEY everyone, I made a new thread here: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=438042#438042
to discuss military involvment only. Anyone else who wants to stay with the Taggy tanker can keep discussing about that here.

[Euchre]

[suckaH]

I love how this takes place in post 9/11 America, yet mgp is coming into the new york harbor in a barrel from a foreign country. You're right, america wouldn't care what's in the tanker. Hell, let EVERYTHING in without inspecting!

[TallulahBelle]

Truth is, if the American government got the news a huge monster was making its way towards the west coast across the Pacific Ocean, they wouldn't let us know - they'd try to contain the threat before it reached the coast and keep the public blissfully unaware of the problem. Its not like the first thing they'd do would be to inform us. On the contrary, their instincts would be to deny and keep a lid on, even with a monster actually roaming the streets of NY, letting the newscasts speculate about more likely scenarios, like earthquakes, until it had gone so far there was absolutely no chance in hell this was gonna end even remotely well.
This for two obvious reasons - to avoid massive panic (which would be the official explanation) and to keep up appearances. See, it would be unlike the government to admit they are not above any situation that may arise, and a hard blow to their self-image as invincible. And to them, that would make America weak in the eyes of the rest of the world, and that would be devastating for the safety of the United States. *sigh*

Still doubting? Compare with 9/11. Was there any public reports of hijacked planes heading towards major cities? And with the initial news broadcasts of the plane hitting the towers, did they not still claim it was most likely an accident? Not until some time after the second plane hit did the authorities finally tell us what was really going on.


So as to how the monster waded into the harbor undetected - it didn't. No need to hide in no tanker.

[suckaH]

Well since everyone denies that the explosion that happened in the trailer wasn't oil barrels, it's fairly plausible that it has laser blast eyes and can breathe petroleum gasoline. It obviously took out the sonar detectors that the navy uses attrediately.
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[AeRoSpaceman]

Lurker Here,

Here are my 2 bits.

1. The tanker is listing and not capsized. (Could just be an error by the script writer but I doubt it as the Live shot of the tanker and the Heli's lighting it from above obviously prove that.)

2. Mr. GP is obviously very huge. The thought of "it" growing that large in just a few minutes is even too much for Uf and not remotely plausible to the "general" viewer who knows nothing before the movie. That would have to take quite a backstory.

3. Mr. GP obviously can walk. GP came from the water. Not saying he is a Hippo but Hippos sort of take a step and then glide for a bit. Not take a creature this large and imagine him "pushing" off the bottom for propulsion with one of his appendages and then gliding.

4. With the gliding theory happening not too much would even be noticed until GP hit the continental shelf. A creature that big will make earth shake on land but at those depths, water and resistance win.

5. I do think the tanker was "thrown" into the city as a fire that big would hurt any organic creature no matter what.

Sorry for the long post.

[suckaH]

[Slusho Addict]