Godzilla burns me up! And everyone else, too!

[Flangepart]

I wanna know something....
Just how hot IS Godzilla's breath anyhoo?
If he can melt a steel power tower with a 3 or 4 second blast, so it turns white and drips, what kinda tempature are we talkin'?
A 15.000 degree F. plasma cutter can zip through sheet metal, and burn through angle iron fast. How does that compare to the big G, though?
Any idea how to figger this out?

[AndyC]

It's a fairly bright blue-white. Have to be over 5,000 degrees.

[Menard]

All I know is that Godzilla's son, Minya, refered to his father as having the really bad breath.

[Scott H]

not only is it really hot, but I believe it is also radioactive. Pretty potent stuff!

[Fearless Freep]

Probably  varies based on script needs...er....G's needs at the time

[Flangepart]

See, i figger it this way....a type-61 tank gun barrel is only about two inches thick ( Gun tube wall ) at the muzzel. If he can get it ti wilt in only a 4 second blast....that has to be at least 20.000 degrees!
Hummm....how might i get the Mythbusters to experiment on this one?....Drat....

[Fearless Freep]

.a type-61 tank gun barrel is only about two inches thick ( Gun tube wall ) at the muzzel. If he can get it ti wilt in only a 4 second blast....that has to be at least 20.000 degrees!

I think you're thinking about it  much more than the director did :)  It's more like "a four second blast is good, wanna get the full effect without over doing it.."

If you look at all the things Big G melts, I bet it's highly inconsistant.

Then again, I practice martial arts and work with computers and they way those two domains are treated in movies, I really throw all semblance of reality to the wind and just go along for the ride.

[Flangepart]

What, being a nerd is bad....well...if ya have a life.
I guess its a scientific queary for the tecnobabble inclined.
Besides...i gotta have SOME fun!

[Andrew]

Hmmm,   Steel starts to melt at just a bit under 3000 F, while plasma arcs go all the way up to 20000 F or so.  It is not at the low point, because the tank starts to melt fairly fast.  If I had to guess, I would probably say around 6000 F or so.

Which means it would probably be pretty silly to attach Godzilla with napalm.  Also, that much internal heat would explain why he is so active, for a reptile.

[peter johnson]

Godzilla is related to the Dragons of Western & Chinese mythology -- they had glands that produced phlogestron, enabling them both to fly & breathe fire.
Gojira could fly if he put his mind to it -- perhaps he doesn't to keep the fights fairer.
Phlogestron is related to the substances which make up the Ether Net, which the stars are suspended in, so it must be capable of generating temperatures hotter than the hottest stars, or so reasoned the Mediaeval astronomers.  Therefore Gojira's breath could be millions of degrees hot, rivaling the thermonuclear center of our own sun.
If Gojira breathes on lead really hard, he could end up transmogriphying it into gold, thus fulfilling the dream of the Philosopher's Stone.
Can't touch that Gojira!
peter johnson/denny crane