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How To: Stop a 500-Foot Monster (Think Missiles, Not Bombs) | Danger Room from Wired.com

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How you deal with a rampaging five-hundred-foot monster in a crowded urban area? Now that Cloverfield has opened in the UK, it's time for DANGER ROOM to go to the movies and consider this utterly vital question. Back in the old days, things were fairly simple. When King Kong climbed the Empire State Building, he could be taken out by a squadron of Curtiss SB2C Helldivers . But since then there ...

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History and hard science.
IFC: Indie Eye — ... David Hambling at Wired is also directing the unforgiving gaze of Mother Science to the blockbusters — part 1 of his "How to Stop a 500-Foot Monster" piece, inspired by "Cloverfield," was popular enough to spawn a follow-up ...

Detailed Military Specs On How To Stop A Rampaging Monster In Your Town [Monster Attack]
io9 — If a 500 foot tall monster invaded your city, would you know how to stop it? Luckily, Wired has not one but two extremely detailed posts telling you what sort of military specs and maneuvers would probably work best against an enormous beastie. Of course, robotics expert Daniel Wilson already told us that we just need swarms of autonomous drones to do the deed for us, and frankly that sounds much easier than trying to coordinate a bunch of army troops who might be on the verge of whizzing in their camouflage uniforms. [Wired] ...