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The Biology of B-Movie Monsters (2003)
Y | Michael C. LaBarbera SESSION 1: Biology and Geometry Collide! SESSION 2: A World Distorted Beyond Your Imagination SESSION 3: The Bigger They Are, The Harder They Fall SESSION 4: Terrors of the Deep SESSION 5: Giant Ants Attack! SESSION 6: The Fantastic World of Mr.
The shrinkage is sufficiently limited in these movies that we don't have to worry about dealing with miniature black holes, but an object the size of a cell but the mass of a submarine--as in Fantastic Voyage--is going to pass through the table, the floor, and the earth's mantle like a hot knife through butter. My all-time favorite for quality of special effects is It Came from Beneath the Sea(1955), in which a giant deep-sea octopus, unable to capture its normal prey after it becomes radioactive from eating fish contaminated in an atomic bomb test, invades shallow waters looking for lunch. Some scientists have questioned whether their hearts could pump blood to such heights.Similar but less severe problems afflict giraffes, who have to have taut skin on their legs (a living version of Supp-hose) to minimize edema (fluid being forced from the capillaries into the tissues due to the high pressure).
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