Well thank you for subscribing 😀 the channel grows slower than I’d like it too, but hopefully someday soon it will indeed become 10K+

That is very fair. However there are no more tribes that worship giant sloths, mammoths, woolly rhinoceros, sivatheriums, diprotodons etc. I guess bison was just lucky in being not so big 🤔

Rainforest soils are continually washed out by rains, and are actually very poor in nutrients. I guess 30 meters is as high as they can go 🤷🏻 redwood, on the other hand, provides much less berries, fruits and nuts than rainforest, so a giant local primate wouldn’t be interested in bending them down so much and would look for an easier source of food 🤔

I kinda spoke on that in my video on kaiju - if a creature wants to be really big in terrestrial setting, it kinda needs to be bird or dinosaur

Yeah, 3 meters would be totally diamond-tier. That, and also he can't come from an island - I guess Kong would make much more sense in continental Africa.

Thanks! I’m trying to do my best 😀

My bad, I guess I didn't do thorough research for this one. But for the purposes of this video, to rate sci-fi hardness, it doesn't really change much. Even species as primitive as worms cannot regenerate from just their heart, which still leaves it in cake tier.

@HardCoreSciFi No harm done it's a hard movie to get a hold of legally. Also, you referred to Godzilla as a 'she' when he is male in all but one depiction.. It's not a big deal, but it was going to bother me if I didn't mention it.

@@ShinKaijuPrince thanks for the comment 😀 I’m all for more precision in my research. When I’ll get to my video on Godzilla, I will certainly pay attention to its gender issues as well.

@HardCoreSciFi just to clarify further, the one female Godzilla(1998) is still referred to as he in the film and is only female on the basis that it can reproduce through parthenogenesis and to do that it needs to be female.

@@ShinKaijuPrince yeah, well, that was actually the very first Godzilla movie I saw, and for sentimental reasons it's still my favorite (I'm aware that it's not a very popular opinion 😅) so that's probably why I used to think of Godzilla as a "she".

Aliens are surely on my to do list sometime in the future, including, but not limited to the Nope ones 😀

That’s a good one 😅 but that continental supergorilla would break so many laws of physics, biology and geography that it would have to be called God Kong or something 😅

@@HardCoreSciFi we found our next movie, boys!

Not really. I am more into speculative evolution on Earth, generally.

@@HardCoreSciFi But have you seen at least one video of Biblaridion's 15 part series Alien Biospheres? His 15th and final episode came out like yesterday, completing his entire 15 part series. It is really good and one could learn a lot about biology from it. For example, in his 11th episode, he brings up both island dwarfism and island gigantism.

@@valgorie1811 I’ll give it a try for sure 👍🏻

@@HardCoreSciFi So, what did you think of Alien Biospheres by Biblaridion?

Thanks! I keep trying to do my best 😊

I’m not getting to Godzilla just straight away, actually - the next video I think I’ll make will be on hollow and other types of unconventional earths 🤔 but when I get to Goji, I’ll make sure to explore all the options! As for mecha and robot kaiju - the square cube law very much applies to them in the same way as it does to organisms, which is why we don’t see many of them around. They will have metal instead of bones, but that metal will still face the same volume/surface ratio issues.

@@HardCoreSciFi If your next video is on unconventional earths, I wonder what you would cover. Young Earth? Hollow Earth? Flat Earth? Those are my guesses.

@@valgorie1811 You got me with flat and hollow, but the third type I gonna do is something lesser known and much more curious.

@@HardCoreSciFi So you are saying you are or aren't going over young earth creationism?

Well, if we speak serious science, that story is kinda inconsistent with what we know about geography and tectonics of the Indian ocean and would require some alternate Earth. Also, if you have a look at the distribution of gorillas (which Kong supposedly came from), you will need to either move the island to Atlantic, or make Kong orangutan-looking, which are actually distributed as far as Asia.

Thanks 😅 that is absolutely unintentional, but I agree there is some resemblance - especially with animated Harley Quinn series Bane. And I like the sound of “professor Bane” 😅

Sounds like you have it all worked out! However, it doesn’t really sound like hard science fiction - I’d say, science fantasy tier at best. There are numerous issues with survival of the dinosaurs, large bugs are kinda impossible since the Carboniferous, and real life humans tend to exterminate, not spread megafauna 🤔

@HardCoreSciFi the dinosaurs and bugs, I haven't gotten an explanation of how they survived and gotten bigger. The human civilization, however, has tamed and formed a symbiotic relationship with the Kong's. They're a sophont species since they create tools, spread information through culture, and can recognize themselves in the mirror along with remembering individuals. The humans, Kong, and other animals they brought over were originally home to a land mass that became atlantis sinking into the ocean. It was through its destruction that they made a new home on Skull Island. With the Kongs helping build the wall and protect their people from the megafauna. Once the first walls and the cities built, they began to expand further in with constructing a second wall, but it would never be complete. The Tyrannosaurs who call Skull Island home are sophont at well, capable of cooperating with 4 to bring down a sauropod or a Kong. Traps set up by humans to combat them, tactics, and new weapons would work at first, but didn't for long. Though they did try to tame and domestiacte the dinosaurs as they did with other species on the original homeland. But most were abandoned when they retracted to the first wall.

@@colonelhammerhead3025 It sounds like a coherent narrative, but again, I concentrate on hard vs. weak science fiction on this channel, and that does not look very hard to me. If you study the timeline of animal domestication, you might notice that for the most part it was either animals that humans either hunted (like sheep, goats, pigs or cows), or hunted the same prey with (like dogs), and gorillas don't really fall into any of these categories. Kong can be hunted, sure, but he is too big to be manageable in captivity - humans tended to exterminate megafauna completely, rather than domesticate it.

I’ll probably save any mentions before I grow to 1000

As for types, they all generally fit into derivant kaiju group, and as for sizes - Anguirus height and Rodan wingspan sure break the kaiju minimum. As for Rhedosaurus, I’m going to discuss it in more detail in my upcoming video on Godzilla 😀

Yeah, well, someday, when channel grows to 10 000, I gonna open a subreddit, and we'll see 😅

I have already finished research, script and pixelart, so there’s just voice and video editing left. By the end of the next week it’s gonna be ready 😀

Thanks! I’m still working on it 😅

You see, as a forensic pathologist by education, I am highly sceptical of the idea of zombies. I know corpses, I’ve studied a lot of them from the inside, and fiction author has to go quite a few extra miles to make the zombies make sense to me. World war Z zombies didn’t really do so, at least in the movie 🤔

@HardCoreSciFi the movie adaption of World War Z only took the name. The zombies, story, history weren't adapted in the movie so the adaption should be separated from the book.

@@colonelhammerhead3025 well, maybe one day I will give it a try

​@@HardCoreSciFi You are selling the vastly superior book far too short. Unlike the movie, Max actually spoke to political, military, medical, etc. Experts from around the world. Ex: In an odd sense, he predicted "C0vid" years in advance because the outbreak started in China. And predicted how China would react to a disease outbreak. Lockdown, mass arrests, and denial.

@@dubuyajay9964 as I’ve said, I still really haven’t managed to get to the book. You might be right about the covid predictions, but that kinda doesn’t make WWZ zombies much more plausible 🤔

I will get to mechas one day for sure, and one obvious thing they suffer from is actually the same square cube law that plagues the kaiju. As for nuclear energy use in a living organism, I will surely get to that when I make separate video on Godzilla, which will be in month or two, so stay tuned 😀

@@HardCoreSciFi YAY that was the one thing I hoped you'd get to, I look forward to it!!

@@HardCoreSciFi I know the number 1 anime with the softest mecha in the entire history of science fiction is Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. It has mecha bigger than the observable universe: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ftGifc6nsKfYeGw.html

I hope it will happen in around 6 months 😀

Agree with most of it 🤔

Awesome, thank you! 😀

Thanks for your comment! I somehow missed that plot twist with Luther cancer. But I’d say, if it causes cancer due to prolonged wear in humans, that means that radioactive substances that cause cancer in humans relatively fast (like uranium or plutonium) should then probably kill Superman on spot 🤔 And I totally agree that synthetic analogues can be produced - but only as long as they don’t start demonstrating the diverse rainbow of effects that they do in case of multi-colored Kryptonite family.

What other factors do you think are crucial?

@@HardCoreSciFi the concepts used in their story telling and inspirations. Basing on size alone is ludicrous when we have a Mothra that is smaller than the original Kong minus her wings

Kaiji means "weird monster" in Japanese I believe

@@fazbear4smash I didn’t really mean to put that 50-meter kaiju minimum as height only. I guess 50-meter length as well as 50-meter wingspan counts as well 🤔

@@HardCoreSciFi should also be noted the Rhedosaurus, the second inspiration for the original Gojira, has been dubbed a kaiju as well despite the smaller stature

It turned out to be harmful for gathering new views and growing subscriber base. People who search for some series or movie from which I used like 3 seconds of footage, get offered to see my video because KZfaq algorithm noticed it in the description, but they either do not click on it or click and instantly leave. KZfaq algorithm kinda decides that my video is crappy and shows it to the people less.

It does correspond very well indeed 😀 Overly Sarcastic channel was actually a great inspiration for me to start making my own KZfaq stuff

I hope you can forgive channel devoted to hard science fiction for not concentrating on children’s show teletubby kaijus 😅

@@HardCoreSciFi Oh I didn't mean to sound like I was trying to be snarky. It's just a hard thing to do when you try to lable kaiju. Most people think it's the size, but there's kaiju that are even smaller then people, like Shockoris from Godzilla 1985, or the Barem and Gohgo from Rebirth of Mothra 2. After being in the fandom for like, almost 30 years (help me), I just think Kaiju are 'does it happen in nature? No? It's a kaiju.' so it can be size, origin, abilities ect. Also I agree with previous comments, your pixel art is AMAZING. I'd play a game with art style like that.

⁠@@LamangoKaijura I agree that labeling kaiju is hard, and the best definition still is the one “you know it when you see it”. Maybe I mislabeled the video, since my aim was generally to answer the question “whether creatures can get really big or not, and why”, and I didn’t pay that much attention to the canon, mentioning several gigantic creatures that many will not count as kaiju (like Cthulhu or Arrakean Sandworm) while omitting those that will count as kaiju by origin but not in size (like the smaller kid-friendly varieties or those mentioned in the other comments that had 30-40 meter sizes). Also, thanks for your comment on my pixelart 😀 I work hard on the visual style of the channel and it’s nice when people notice ☺️

That is a very interesting question indeed 🤔

I am actually going to do a video on vampires someday 🧛🏻😀

I am definitely going to speak on island gigantism phenomena in my upcoming video on King Kong 🦍

@@HardCoreSciFi ill definitely look forward to it.

As I’ve mentioned in the video, I generally agree with the definition of Kaiju as “you know it when you see it”, but for the sake of more or less scientific analysis of whether they can exist or not, I used 50 meter minimum since the overwhelming majority of Kaiju exceeds this size. I mean, if we make a normal Gaussian distribution curve for Kaiju sizes, those smaller than 50 meters will be separate outliers, rather than a rule. As for fairy tale tier - well, I only apply it to the Gigamorph Kaiju, with the rest having a bit higher chances to exist.

Thanks! I’m glad you liked the art 😀

Thanks for the comment! I actually never went deep into evolutionary history of kelp 😅 but to be fair, protists as a concept were an umbrella taxon that got generally abandoned after we started sequencing DNA and realised what comes from where (same way as it happened with insectivora). The point I tried to make was that kelp is probably the closest thing we have to the woods in the marine ecosystems.

Thanx! I try to do my best 😀

Glad you enjoyed it! 😀

Thanks! Glad you enjoy it! 😀

Thanks for the comment 😀 I just tried to take the highest known Argentinosaurus estimates and the record biggest whale sizes - and even those proved to be too little to count as kaiju.

​@@HardCoreSciFi And yet you said you've seen some pre-Kong films with dinosaurs called "kaiju" films.

@@dubuyajay9964 nah, I said monsters in these movies were sometimes referred to as kaiju. That’s not exactly the same as calling the whole movie ‘kaiju’