Silver Screen Science - Godzilla (1998)

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Common Descent

Science, Natural Sciences, Education, Earth Sciences, Science:natural Sciences

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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There’s a pandemic on, and we and many of our listeners are spending lots of time at home. On the bright side, it’s a good opportunity to watch movies and record Silver Screen Science! So, we’re putting together some new episodes, to keep you – and ourselves – entertained. This episode, we revisit the King of Monsters: Godzilla (1998) The Common Descent Store is open! Get merch! http://zazzle.com/common_descent Follow and Support us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcast Instagram: @commondescentpodcast PodBean: https://commondescentpodcast.podbean.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-common-descent-podcast/id1207586509?mt=2YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCePRXHEnZmTGum2r1l2mduw The Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:19.0	Hello, Will. Hello, David.
0:21.2	Hello, listeners, and welcome back to Silver Screen Science.
0:25.0	Again.
0:25.7	This time, we are talking about Godzilla again.
0:30.2	Again.
0:30.9	So last June, we did a Godzilla series.
0:35.2	Kai June.
0:35.9	And we talked about, well, it was Godzilla and King Kong predominantly.
0:40.0	But this time we are talking about a Godzilla film we did not discuss during Kai June, the 1998 American film Godzilla.
0:50.9	Too many of the infamous Godzilla.
0:53.1	The infamous Godzilla. Before we get into that,
0:56.6	Silver Screen Science for those who are new, is a series where we talk about the science of movies,
1:01.8	not just nitpicking what they do wrong, but examining how the film treats science and scientists,
1:09.1	and particularly the kinds of science that we are most interested in.
1:12.9	So for something like Godzilla, that is, you are creating a fictional dinosaur and how you doing it.
1:18.8	To that end, we will be discussing the movie in its entirety.
1:22.4	So consider this your spoiler warning.
1:25.5	You've been warned.
1:26.5	Godzilla 1998 is an American film released in 1998.
1:31.7	Yep.
1:32.3	By Roland Emric, directed by Roland Emric.
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