Comment Re:#7. They Have Too Many Natural Predators (Score 1) 320
Apart from this being utter foolishness, lets assume some virus or bacteria (either natural or man made) was indeed created that could reanimate dead humans:
- Decomposition would cease, since the virus would likely revive cells, or potentially generate new ones, causing the heart to start pumping again, muscles and even neurons to regrow (albeit, heavily malformed)
- Even after some heavy flesh/organ damage caused by human's attacking the undead, the regenerative capabilities of the virus/bacteria would likely heal them (unless the head was cut off) continuing their onslaught.
- Since the virus/bacteria attaches itself to non-living humans, I find it more reasonable to believe that it incubates in humans until death (where decomposition starts in order to signal the transformation) Biting only speeds up the process towards deat. Maybe the saliva releases a deadly toxin/poison that accelerates death?
- Zombies are also known to rise from the grave, meaning that regeneration occurred while being buried in a cemetery, meaning that if normally 146,357 die each day, the zombie population would be easily replenished, after 10 days, 1M+ army of zombies + the ones who are killed.
- The virus/bacteria is either airborne or can be transmitted through the food chain (say goodbye to meat, say hello to vegetarianism)
- The zombies have sense of balance, they can also stand up, handle semi basic terrain, crawl, break into houses, etc. they most likely are able to judge distances (when to attack, when to moan when far away), they are somewhat location aware, also they would be likely able to avoid falling of bridges, or getting stuck in simple structures.
- zombies should be rather weak, otherwise their strong muscles could easily break their already weak bones, any potential regeneration of bones would likely be deformed (in theory), thus giving to rigid unmoveable corpses
Surviving:
- Zombies will likely die after a few days, I would imagine the energy requirements must be huge to maintain the undead alive. Just waiting them out is the best option.
- best thing to do is to lock yourself in or head into remote areas (if you can survive the trip),
- close combat weapons are useless, you will likely get cut or bitten, potentially the blood splatter may infect you as well
- travel by normal vehicles cars would be a bad idea, since they would be likely to get stuck trying to get through or over piles of zombies, not to mention any potential traffic barriers or abandoned vehicles.
- I would suggest using fire to kill the zombies, hopefully the surrounding mass will catch on fire and spread it around.
- Food supplies will likely be hard to come by. City services would be off, going to the market would be difficult or impossible, with no tap water or even contaminated water it will be difficult to survive, worst, all the rotting zombie corpses (the ones that finally do die) will generate massive plagues, leading to even more deaths by normal means (and increasing the zombie population)
- Anybody who has given at least 1% of their life time planning for the impending zombie apocalypse will likely survive it.
thats almost all I have to say about this pointless topic, other than those who have survived it will be forced to engage in constant orgies, so, its not all that bad to plan ahead!.
- Decomposition would cease, since the virus would likely revive cells, or potentially generate new ones, causing the heart to start pumping again, muscles and even neurons to regrow (albeit, heavily malformed)
- Even after some heavy flesh/organ damage caused by human's attacking the undead, the regenerative capabilities of the virus/bacteria would likely heal them (unless the head was cut off) continuing their onslaught.
- Since the virus/bacteria attaches itself to non-living humans, I find it more reasonable to believe that it incubates in humans until death (where decomposition starts in order to signal the transformation) Biting only speeds up the process towards deat. Maybe the saliva releases a deadly toxin/poison that accelerates death?
- Zombies are also known to rise from the grave, meaning that regeneration occurred while being buried in a cemetery, meaning that if normally 146,357 die each day, the zombie population would be easily replenished, after 10 days, 1M+ army of zombies + the ones who are killed.
- The virus/bacteria is either airborne or can be transmitted through the food chain (say goodbye to meat, say hello to vegetarianism)
- The zombies have sense of balance, they can also stand up, handle semi basic terrain, crawl, break into houses, etc. they most likely are able to judge distances (when to attack, when to moan when far away), they are somewhat location aware, also they would be likely able to avoid falling of bridges, or getting stuck in simple structures.
- zombies should be rather weak, otherwise their strong muscles could easily break their already weak bones, any potential regeneration of bones would likely be deformed (in theory), thus giving to rigid unmoveable corpses
Surviving:
- Zombies will likely die after a few days, I would imagine the energy requirements must be huge to maintain the undead alive. Just waiting them out is the best option.
- best thing to do is to lock yourself in or head into remote areas (if you can survive the trip),
- close combat weapons are useless, you will likely get cut or bitten, potentially the blood splatter may infect you as well
- travel by normal vehicles cars would be a bad idea, since they would be likely to get stuck trying to get through or over piles of zombies, not to mention any potential traffic barriers or abandoned vehicles.
- I would suggest using fire to kill the zombies, hopefully the surrounding mass will catch on fire and spread it around.
- Food supplies will likely be hard to come by. City services would be off, going to the market would be difficult or impossible, with no tap water or even contaminated water it will be difficult to survive, worst, all the rotting zombie corpses (the ones that finally do die) will generate massive plagues, leading to even more deaths by normal means (and increasing the zombie population)
- Anybody who has given at least 1% of their life time planning for the impending zombie apocalypse will likely survive it.
thats almost all I have to say about this pointless topic, other than those who have survived it will be forced to engage in constant orgies, so, its not all that bad to plan ahead!.
