[solitas]

...a meteorite about 45m across smashed into the area about 20 000 to 30 000 years ago.

Huh! So THAT'S how Godzilla got there. It all makes sense now.

[JZoback]

So THAT'S how Godzilla got there

The very FIRST thing that popped into the ole noggin was that exact same thought.

[Calvin Locke]

... how Godzilla got there...

No, he came on one of the chariots of the gods.

I heard a piece on NPR a long time ago. A Japanese media concern did a man-in-the-street survey. They asked Americans
to name 3 prominent Japanese.

Godzilla was high on the list of wrong answers. Technically, script-wise, he's French - a product of French nuclear testing in the Pacific.