# How long would it take the US military to wrap up kaiju? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 14, 2013, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-would-it-take-the-us-military-to-wrap-up-kaiju/663506 "2013-07-14T21:06:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-would-it-take-the-us-military-to-wrap-up-kaiju/663506/41 "2013-07-16T21:32:02Z")
> [@LateComer](#): > > You have a cousin or something, don’t you, Cthul- something or other, who’s a big monstrous sea creature? This was the mistake Chaosium made in their RPG supplement about Cthulhu in the 20th/21st century. They actually gave him an explicit number of hit points. That means…we can kill him. My reaction was very similar to one of the Jurassic Park sequels, where dinosaurs rampage through San Diego. Do you have any idea how many hunting rifles there are in San Diego? Never mind the military; never mind jets and mortars and Guided Missile Cruisers: just a few thousand guys with hunting rifles! T-Rex is giblets! > [@Airk](#): > > The very first post contains a RANT and we are “clearly having a good time”? Well, okay then. Far be it from me to play the wet blanket on the wet blanket conversation. Grin! We like complaining! It’s participatory entertainment! ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-would-it-take-the-us-military-to-wrap-up-kaiju/663506/42 "2013-07-16T21:45:18Z")
Say it with me: \* All Entertainment Universes (Movies, TV, Books, etc) are Alternate Universes.\* All of them. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-would-it-take-the-us-military-to-wrap-up-kaiju/663506/43 "2013-07-16T22:27:04Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > This was the mistake Chaosium made in their RPG supplement about Cthulhu in the 20th/21st century. They actually gave him an explicit number of hit points. That means…we can kill him. Premise for the beginning of a horror movie: some nerds are sitting around a table playing an RPG. They attack Cthulhu. We see over the shoulder in the DM’s guide that Cthulhu starts with 10,000 hit points. Through a montage we see that the players have done 5,000 damage to Him, then 7,000. We again see over the shoulder in the DM’s guide that Cthulhu starts with 15,000 hit points. The illustration of Him looks significantly more angry. And don’t the walls seem a bit damp… ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-would-it-take-the-us-military-to-wrap-up-kaiju/663506/44 "2013-07-16T22:48:58Z")
Eh, I still like the original rules that said Cthulu automatically ate d3 Investigators per turn. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-would-it-take-the-us-military-to-wrap-up-kaiju/663506/45 "2013-07-16T23:56:20Z")
**MaxTheVool** , that would make an _awesome_ movie premise… except for the fact that the set of people who’d get it is too small to support making a movie for. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-would-it-take-the-us-military-to-wrap-up-kaiju/663506/46 "2013-07-17T01:34:13Z")
[7/16 Full Frontal Nerdity](http://ffn.nodwick.com/) ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2013, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-would-it-take-the-us-military-to-wrap-up-kaiju/663506/47 "2013-07-18T11:31:10Z")
No point fighting the mecha genre’s hypothetical. That the army’s default tech is useless is the starting point. We have to build giant robots which can only be powered by angsty teenagers with depressing back stories. > [@Trinopus](#): > > This was the mistake Chaosium made in their RPG supplement about Cthulhu in the 20th/21st century. They actually gave him an explicit number of hit points. That means…we can kill him. Well in the original story he was hurt because a boat rammed him. ---
**Author:** ![agnesnitt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d78d45/32.png) [@agnesnitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/agnesnitt)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-would-it-take-the-us-military-to-wrap-up-kaiju/663506/48 "2013-07-20T03:00:45Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > He’s not a monster, he’s misunderstood. And to get rid of another salacious rumor, Cthulhu is not a “sea monster”, he’s from the vast gulfs of darkness between stars. He just happens to be in the ocean right now So, he’s in the salt water spa of EVIL? Or is he working on getting a salt scrub to soften up his tentacles? Even monsters have to have good skin to appear on HDTV. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-would-it-take-the-us-military-to-wrap-up-kaiju/663506.md?page=2)