He became Godzilla.  He burst through the solid layers of the Earth’s crust as if he were crumbling a piece of
toast, because he was so enormous and powerful. All 65 nuclear reactors and all of man’s nuclear weapons were
no match for this Godzilla creature. These weapons would be to him like a mosquito bite on an elephants hide. If
those tiny men were to fire them, in fact (although they didn’t know it at the time), they would have a reverse
effect: the additional radioactivity would make him even larger and more powerful then he already had become as
a result of the freakish circumstances preceding his delayed birth.

When Godzilla burst to the surface and into the open air, he gazed around and saw beauty: our green Earth, with
its blue sky.  Since he was so incredibly large and stood high above everything that man had built, he could look
clearly to the aquamarine, rolling sea. For a short while, Godzilla felt nothing but peace and happiness; he was
content purely to be on Earth and to be finally alive.

Then, suddenly, because of his peculiarly radioactive body, his thick reptilian skin began to be bombarded with
every conceivable wireless signal currently coursing through the airwaves. They now proceeded to course into
his body and up into his mind. Every Internet website, every email transmission, every television and radio signal
was zapped into his body. Strangely (since this was foreign to him), he discovered that his brain could process
the infinite amount of electronically generated information at a speed equivalent to one million supercomputers.  
He kept absorbing all the world’s information, soaking it up and understanding it entirely, like no one thing on
Earth could possibly do - or might ever be equipped to do.

Godzilla walked over mountains and across wide rivers, through towns and cities, all the while collecting more and
more of the world’s information. He made the people of Japan frightened and he saw their fear, so he tried to stay
far away and walk towards the mountains and the sea.

In a short while, Godzilla had absorbed most of the recorded knowledge of all mankind – at least all of it that was
stored on the Internet.  He could think incredibly clearly and quickly, understanding in milliseconds all of the
problems affecting entire complex civilizations. They seemed to him to all be were linked inextricably to the Earth’s
fragile and threatened environment.

Godzilla walked east, across the Sea of Japan, towards China. He knew where the ocean ridges were, because
he had the maps of the world stored in his extraordinary memory, including the sea floors. He began to walk
across all the continents, while his super-radioactive skin absorbed ever more fresh information. He could now
comprehend every language spoken on the planet and knew all religions, sciences, and histories. With each
giant step, he took on added, unbounded wisdom about human civilization.

For the first time, Godzilla came upon large masses of people suffering from starvation, made worse by lack of
water that was uncontaminated by industrial pollution. Having traversed over miles and miles of bountiful farms
planted with an abundance of grains and vegetables, Godzilla could not, despite all his deep intellect, understand
why the world’s food and resources could not be distributed amongst all people equally.
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Godzilla Meets the Internet
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