[Yeah, he's still staring. Very intently staring, Kovacs. He does, to his credit, try to keep his eyes focused on the man's eyes instead; the only problem is, the cigarette is very close to his eyes, what with the mouth being inches from them. Jeez.]

Oh, y'know. Giant Japanese monsters in movies, sometimes radioactive, almost always twenty to forty stories tall, stomping through cities?

Only we had those for real. Alien invasions are a real pain to deal with, turns out.