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[cogitosam]

If there's any attempt to make use of science at all, this creature must be an alien displaced to Earth. With any kind of conventional mass, the thing is going to be upwards of 10,000 tons or more. To move that mass as shown would require a material involving something like silicone and some novel kind of energy source. A dinosaur scaled up to 600 feet is going to be crushed by its own mass into a pile of dead hamburger and bone powder.

This thing must be made of incredible stuff running on more incredible energy. It would be extremely hot. But getting back to the weight, at that mass it's feet would easily punch down through the street floor and what's below (subways, tunnels, or earth/bedrock), so the height seen between the buildings may not measure the thing (and in fact the calves look too short as if disappearing into the ground surface).

Disclaimer: this speculation is worth less than you paid for it, and if the film is a war on all science like the "Star Wars" um, "stuff," then this does not apply.

[Kraker]

It wasn't displaced on Earth, as the widget says "something has found us", implying it's beating the hell out of New York on purpose, not because it's cranky it's not on its home planet.

[cogitosam]

I agree that it is intelligent and deliberately attacking New York, and in fact I still suspect it made an attempt to throw the SOL head at Rob. The displaced point is that I don't think it could have originated on Earth--in any way. If I were inventing a backstory I'd say it came from a world vastly larger and more massive than Earth, thus bigger size and strength.

[carlosos]

[Roztox]

[suckaH]

[Slusho Addict]

[Snyde Comment]

ok, assuming the monster can actually move at these speeds...is it too far fetched to think that the monster is a large version of.....THE JESUS LIZARD!

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[Headman]

I think this is what some of you are trying to say about not being able to support his weight:

http://www.apeculture.com/movies/godzilla.htm

and here

http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2007/02/the_science_of_godzilla_1.php

[Slusho Addict]

That's only assuming it's bipedal though.

As long as there's enough legs, to support the weight, you can have enormous creatures. You can create a giant centipede by tying a heard of elephants in a line
Same applies for assuming it needs one enormous heart to pump the blood, octopodes have 3 hearts, for example.

[xboyonfirex]

[xboyonfirex]

besides, I think this thing is going to be more wide and long than it is tall.

[Euchre]

Bees can't fly.
The engineers just say it can't be so.

[djspankypants]

just an idea, it could be like megatron in the Transformers movie.

[JimiJons]