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| Jun 9 2008, 5:58 PM EDT | UnUndead | 95 words added |
| Jun 6 2008, 9:03 PM EDT | Irishflyboy254 | 46 words added |
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SuperSoldierRCP- I think its possible but unlikely
UnUndead: I have come to the conclusion thatrage zombies are impossible. Here is the evidence:
1) Rage zombies attack humans with what seems like the intent to kill, and infection is spread though bites. Since rage zombies are extremely fast and aggresive, their blood will be flowing vary fast, and therefore leaving through cuts, including bites, very fast. This would lead to major loss of blood, and finally exsanguination. You try being beaten half to death and then sprinting a mile. I doubt you'll be in good shape
2) The infection to zombification times are extremely short. Do you have any idea how fast a virus would have to reproduce in order for a host to even start showing symptoms that soon after infection?
3) They projectile vomit blood! I very much doubt they'd be able to do that many times before death by bleeding.
Those are my main points. Please feel free to discuss and try to counter my arguments. I made a number of assumptions for this argument, all of which can be summed up by, "These are the things in 28 Days Later." Please make your arguments under the same assumptions, for the sake of argument. I am trying to disprove the rage zombies from 28 Days Later as a possibility, not rage zombies all together. Please also give evidence for your claims.
byates: Rage type zombies along the lines of C.H.U.D. might be possible. Longer incubation time than 28 days type, plus seem to have enhanced healing ability. Spread slowed by fact that they tend to consume the bodies, not many left to turn, and the person has to be alive until they turn.
IFB254- No, they are possible early on. A newly formed zombie still has most of its gray matter intact, along with its musculature. Factor these in, and you won't have a speed machine, but one that can come at you at a reasonably fast rate.
UnUndead: After thinking about it a bit more, I've come to the conclusion that rage zombies are indeed possible, but only a very slight minority of people that get infected would become rage zombies. The evidence I wrote above only says they would have a very short lifespan and a very low chance of turning humans intozombies, not that they are impossible.
This means that even if every single person on this planet was infected, there would be only a few million Zs, asnd those would die off very quickly, due to their violent nature.
UnUndead: I have come to the conclusion thatrage zombies are impossible. Here is the evidence:
1) Rage zombies attack humans with what seems like the intent to kill, and infection is spread though bites. Since rage zombies are extremely fast and aggresive, their blood will be flowing vary fast, and therefore leaving through cuts, including bites, very fast. This would lead to major loss of blood, and finally exsanguination. You try being beaten half to death and then sprinting a mile. I doubt you'll be in good shape
2) The infection to zombification times are extremely short. Do you have any idea how fast a virus would have to reproduce in order for a host to even start showing symptoms that soon after infection?
3) They projectile vomit blood! I very much doubt they'd be able to do that many times before death by bleeding.
Those are my main points. Please feel free to discuss and try to counter my arguments. I made a number of assumptions for this argument, all of which can be summed up by, "These are the things in 28 Days Later." Please make your arguments under the same assumptions, for the sake of argument. I am trying to disprove the rage zombies from 28 Days Later as a possibility, not rage zombies all together. Please also give evidence for your claims.
byates: Rage type zombies along the lines of C.H.U.D. might be possible. Longer incubation time than 28 days type, plus seem to have enhanced healing ability. Spread slowed by fact that they tend to consume the bodies, not many left to turn, and the person has to be alive until they turn.
IFB254- No, they are possible early on. A newly formed zombie still has most of its gray matter intact, along with its musculature. Factor these in, and you won't have a speed machine, but one that can come at you at a reasonably fast rate.
UnUndead: After thinking about it a bit more, I've come to the conclusion that rage zombies are indeed possible, but only a very slight minority of people that get infected would become rage zombies. The evidence I wrote above only says they would have a very short lifespan and a very low chance of turning humans intozombies, not that they are impossible.
This means that even if every single person on this planet was infected, there would be only a few million Zs, asnd those would die off very quickly, due to their violent nature.
