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Original Godzilla In U.S. Theaters
saudadelinux writes "The original Gojira is in theaters now through July. See the *uncut Japanese version* of the film as it was really meant to be seen, as a serious anti-nuke picture, not just Saturday afternoon UHF fodder."
No, the poster is correct. The Japanese behind the 'Godzilla' on the image is basically GO JI RA.
I do believe you mean "I wish I were...." But thank you for correcting my Engrish. ;)
Less look fast, more go fast.
"If you've never seen Godzilla before, you might actually be impressed by the quality of the acting and script. This isn't a scream-queen b-movie, despite its reputation. Most of the characters seem genuinely terrified of the thin air they're staring into before Godzilla is matted in..."
And I would be remiss if I didn't remind you to check out the imdb
You said: "the fact is that plutonium can only be used for weapons, period."
A quick lesson in nuclear physics:
A nuclear reactor operates by fissioning a fissible fuel (no suprise here!). While I'm not going to describe the physics of criticality you can look it up elsewhere. A fissible fuel is a fuel that will fission when hit by an alpha or a neutron. Due to the physics of criticality, alphas are not used (they have too short of a range and are rarely released from fission fragments anyways). Neutrons are used in two forms: fast and slow. A nuclear weapon will use fast neutrons (neutrons that after whatever reaction that created them have not been moderated) and a nuclear reactor will use slow neutrons (neutrons that have slowed down to the ambient kinetic energy of the reactor--typically by water or graphite).
It should be fairly obvious why only very heavy elements are used in fissible fuel. But due to a quirk in physics, only the odd atomic mass fuels work well. This is due to the fact that in order to cause fission you have to agitate the nucleus enough for it to split. Typically this is about 5 MeV of kinetic energy for an even numbered fuel. For an odd numbered fuel, the internal nuclear reaarangement gives this amount of energy so that a nucleus can fission with a slow neutron while an even numbered fuel needs a fast neutron with a very high kinetic energy.
What does this mean? U-233 is a slightly worse fuel than U-235 which will be a slightly worse fuel than Pu-239. Since Pu-239 is heavier than U-235 (which is used in an enriched form in nuclear reactors) it will be more suitable for nuclear reactors.
What about those fast neutrons, will they work? Yes, but common sense says that if they are slowed down they will have more interactions before escaping from a reactor, so they would work better. Nuclear bombs don't have the time for neutrons to slow down to ambient before interactions so they depend entirely on fast neutrons (the converse shows why a nuclear reactor can never explode like a nuclear bomb).
Suddenly, the hairy finger of a familiar monkey tapped me on the shoulder. It was time.--G. T.
Corrent except for the fact that Nobel created Dynamite not TNT. He also developed the blasting cap I think.
X(7): A program for managing terminal windows. See also screen(1).
Apple.com has a quicktime trailer for the re-release here.
Yes, that's right.
I was told that the name was actually created from a merge between "GO RI RA" (gorilla) and "KU JI RA" (whale), and intended as a pun for both King-Kong (the gorilla) and Moby Dick (the whale).
"Basically"? Literally, according to the Hepburn romanization system, which is the most common outside Japan: ko" shi" ra = gojira. In the Kunrei-shiki and Nihon-shiki systems, which are the ones sanctioned by Japanese government for use in schools, it's "gozira".
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I completely agree except for one thing:
Alfred Nobel, the inventor of TNT
Alfred Nobel invented dynamite (which was basically just a better way to handle the good old nitroglycerine). TNT (trinitrotoluene) was invented by German scientist von Willbrand in 1860's.
To me the really notable difference was in the music. The Japanese version has some very spare, slow drumming as it's theme. The American version evidentally introduced the symphonic music with a more "horror movie" feel that I've always thought of as "The Godzilla Theme" (You know, ra da da DAA... ra dun da DAAAAAAH... ra da da daaaah, da daaaah dah or something like that.). That theme, combined with the sounds of destruction and carnage strikes me as a pretty obvious precursor to a lot of Industrial music.
(Anyway, you want to see a really strange film? Try renting "Mothera" sometime. Twin miniature faerie women singing in Balinese to get an "exotic" sound to Japanese ears...)
> Japan has been living with a foreign-written constitution for a long, long time, and there's substantial support for throwing it out and becoming a real nation again.
Actually, accoring to a yearly poll by Asahi, Shinbun, this year is the first time there is more than 50percent support for a revision of the constitution. But a plurarity is for the inclusion of more rights. Only about 15percent are for a revision because it "was forced on Japan by the United States", less than 10 percent are against the pacifistic Article 9.
Here a perspective on the consitution.
> As soon as North Korea finishes their nuke(s)
North Korea has already nukes.
> you'll see Japan go nuclear faster than you can say, "irrishaimase".
Vice Defense Minister Shingo Nishimura had to resign in 1999 after suggesting that Japan should go nuclear.
"Between strong and weak, between rich and poor [...], it is freedom which oppresses and the law which sets free"
don't bother with the trailer, it has got to be the lamest trailer possible...
o riginal version.
here, let me sum it up for you:
original.
uncut.
undubbed.
uncensored.
All of this is in big bold white letters on a black screen. exciting huh?
you would think that since they've had to footage for fifty years they might be able to come up with something a little more creative!
Give me a break dude. The abuses in Iraq are to be condemmed and those responsible should do jail time, but it doesn't come close to the Rape of Nanking and to suggest otherwise is a distortion of history.
He didn't compare Iraq to the Rape of Nanking. He just said that some Americans are getting away with rapes and murders and the like in Iraq, and that pictures of that kind of stuff was appearing on TV. Im not so sure that he's wrong either. Read the news carefully -- reports of rapes and other abuses beyond that one prisoner scandal actually have in fact started coming out.
Example: Read this article.
Well, Godzilla did crack out of an iceberg in King Kong vs Godzilla. Come to think of it, he looked pretty pissed about it...
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