🧵 What does the square-cube law have to do with kaiju?
Anonymous at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 18:20:34 UTC No. 16469827
>Godzilla can't exist specifically because of the square-cube law
>The heckin' square-cube law
>But have you heard of the SQUARE-CUBE LAW?!
Wait a minute... the square cube law states that because volume increases faster than surface area, certain single-celled organisms can only be so big before they produce more waste than they can excrete, and die of toxicity. But what the shit does that have to do with Godzilla, a multicellular organism? (Yes I'm fully aware he can't exist anyway without superstrong materials, but that's not what this thread is about unless it pertains to the squire-crab law in some way)
Anonymous at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 18:48:08 UTC No. 16469847
>>16469827
The same applies to multicellular organisms too except the limits are different. Having multiple cells with specialized roles can alleviate things like nutrition and waste circulation up to a point but not solve those issues as a whole. A typical example is how bones and joints and muscles scale up in strength. A muscle or bone grows in strength based on the cross sectional area which scales with square of the size but grows in weight based on the mass which scales with cube of size. If you make something twice as big it will only be 4 times as strong but 8 times as heavy which inevitably leads to being non viable at certain sizes, this is the reason why some tiny animals or what ever can jump gorillion times their height or run at speed of sound (scaled up to human size) but an elephant will die if it falls over. The point of square cube law is that lot of things have benefits scaling based on square but drawbacks scaling with cube that eventually caps the size for that mechanic, it doesn't just have to do with waste management.
Anonymous at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 20:32:31 UTC No. 16469922
>>16469847
Holy shit an actual answer, have this meme as a token of my appreciation.