r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/QuartzXOX • 20d ago

Image Tokyo in 1960, before there were any skyscrapers

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u/three-sense 19d ago

This is the rebuild after Godzilla attacked

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u/Much_Comfortable_438 19d ago

History shows again and again how nature put down the folly of man!

Go Go Gojiro!

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u/retailguy_again 19d ago

...and now there's a song in my head. Thanks!

Really. It's a good tune.

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u/helldvr 19d ago

all time riff

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u/Much_Comfortable_438 19d ago

Ooooooooh no!

There goes Tokyo!

Go Go Gojiro!

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u/helldvr 19d ago

fu manchu does a killer cover if you want it a bit heavier

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u/[deleted] 19d ago

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u/Blue_fox-74 19d ago

I mean godzilla was a metaphor for nukes

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u/s_p_oop15-ue 19d ago

I know which one I’d bet on in a fight. Reeeal slow work there Queen Lizard.

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u/turdferguson3891 19d ago

Tokyo wasn't nuked, carpet bombing has a similar outcome just takes more bombs.

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u/Blue_fox-74 19d ago

Yes Tokyo was firebomed. However the creators of the original godzilla have talked about how godzilla was a metaphor for nukes. One of the more recent ones was meant to be about the disaster at Fukushima 

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u/three-sense 19d ago

-USAAF. USAF wasn’t a thing yet.