You know, geeks have the most wonderfully distracting thought experiment type discussions. I saw the film Cloverfield earlier this year, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Now comes this Wired blog post concerning the practical approach to defending your city from the marauding mayhem caused by your SHFHFM (Standard Hollywood Five Hundred Foot Monster) attack.
I particularly enjoyed this item.
It’s difficult to make accurate assumptions about 500 foot-tall fictional monsters whose very existence violates the laws of physics. But it’s liable to have skin, scales or other outer with protective blubber or equivalent covering several feet thick. This will absorb anything except apart from an armor-piercing round. Flesh, like water, can stop virtually any projectile within a few feet – that’s why you need something very exotic like a supercavitating round if you want to go through a lot of it. Those supercavitating Russian APS underwater assault rifles might be handy here… but you’d need a lot of rounds to have any effect.
I wasn’t even aware that the Russians had designed underwater assault rifles. That is too cool. Add this to the discussion of properly surviving the impending 500′ monster attack, and we are totally prepared.
Now, our next discussion will be stopping an invasion of large acid filled armored insect like aliens in both urban and forested settings. Be sure to site examples!
