they sent Gamera to MARS!!!!!!!!!!!!

What's most absurd is the fact they had a rocket large & powerful enough to launch a payload 200 feet tall and weighing 5,500 tons (according to Wiki).

The biggest launch vehicle ever built was the Saturn V rocket used for the Apollo moon program and it was still in development during the time of Gamera's production. Fully assembled it stood 363 feet tall and had a maximum Low-Earth Orbit payload of about 130 tons - it could only push about 50 tons of payload out of earth orbit. A single launch cost about 1.19 billion in 2014 US dollars, took months of planning by a team of thousands, and could not only be heard but felt for miles around during launch. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V_rocket

By dividing Gamera's weight of 5,500 tons by the 50 tons of max Saturn V payload, we find it would require the equivalent of 110 Saturn V rockets just get Gamera out of earth's gravitational pull. In the movie the capsule on the end of the rocket is about 1/10 of the rocket's height. Being conservative and suggesting that alone is 200 feet, that would make the total height about 2000 feet, probably closer to 2500. EVEN IF they did have the money, time, resources, personnel and technology to successfully cram that much power into the biggest rocket ever known to mankind, it would be dangerous enough to wipe out a small country and would likely require a safety radius of 100 miles.

Don't you just love the science & practicality in these kaiju flicks?