it came through the breach on august 11, 2013
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So, I saw Pacific Rim again:
Welcome to Pacific Rim! Please enjoy an opening sequence of your city being destroyed!
T_T
t_t
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Apparently, seeing that for the second time doesn’t make it hurt any less.
And the Golden Gate Bridge! No, not that! That thing was a Depression-era, WPA-funded project why would you shit on the common man and his labor like that?
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So, the kaiju hit three cities within 35 miles. Cities? And the little towns between the cities too, right? But yeah, there are a dozen or two little towns between the cities. Anyways. My friend and I were thinking, because while San Jose is the seat of Silicon Valley it’s out a little bit further from SF than 35 miles. So:
- San Francisco, San Mateo, Palo Alto / Menlo Park.
Which is the easiest way, just go south down the peninsula. While Palo Alto / Menlo Park are, technically, two small towns, if you take out the pair of them you take out Stanford University and Sand Hill Road - basically you take out one of Silicon Valley’s most important hubs.
But, if you really wanna take out the Bay Area with maximum damage:
- San Francisco, Oakland, Hayward.
As pretty as the Golden Gate Bridge is, destroying it is not too disruptive. You wanna paralyze the Bay Area? After SF, the kaiju takes out the Bay Bridge and the BART train tunnel under it. Then the kaiju goes south and hits Hayward. It wouldn’t even have to take down the entire San Mateo Bridge, just the toll gates and opening lanes to it. With the two most important bridges and the most important train route taken down, the entire metropolitan area would be paralyzed for years.
And where did the military response come from? San Francisco Presidio, Treasure Island and Alameda Island were all closed in the ’90s. Camp Parks in Dublin is really tiny and while the planes from Travis Air Force Base at Vacaville would be there within minutes, I don’t think they’d have big enough squads or enough firepower to put up much of a fight. All that military might would have to come from CentralCal and SoCal.
I think the planes from Travis would put up a fight for a day or two, until the army and marine corps gets there and they put up a fight for another day or two until the navy and more of the marine corps gets there.
Lastly: Why did I not hear air raid sirens? Trust me, they work; they’re loud; I hear them every Tuesday at noon. Or, maybe in movie-verse, the emergency broadcast services weren’t working. I don’t want to think too hard about the implications of that.
Clearly this movie has got me thinking about the destruction of my city a little too much.
