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| alcon-fay | Undead zombies | 7 | Jul 22 2011, 3:40 PM EDT by TurnAndBurn | ||||
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Thread started: Jul 10 2011, 5:57 PM EDT
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It would be very unlikly for someone to die and be reanimated. Coma's are a different story.
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| TaurusTrap | It won't be easy. | 2 | Feb 17 2011, 9:47 AM EST by Marsden | ||||
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Thread started: Oct 18 2009, 9:09 AM EDT
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No matter how the virus or parasite was created, an infected person that becomes a zombie will go through stages.
1- A newly infected person still has a complete and functioning body, minus rational thinking. Zombies will probably be able to run and move quickly, but average human behavior will be replaced with violent and swift insanity. 2- After the body dies, which would be because it isn't getting any nutrients or any of the things that an animal needs to live, it will start to decay at the rate of any average dead body. This means that the body and all that it is composed of will slowly die, including muscle tissue, which will result in slower zombies as time goes by. 3- Towards the end, zombies will most likely be almost completely harmless. They will have hardly any muscle and no energy to keep them going. The virus will most likely die soon after, resulting in a finally dead zombie. I really hope I'm wrong though, because if any threat as serious as a zombie were to come about, I hope they won't be able to run. We would have no chance.
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| shizat | Long Decay | 6 | Jan 26 2009, 8:17 AM EST by shizat | ||||
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Thread started: Jan 23 2009, 4:10 PM EST
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I have stated this in another thread, and would like to finish my research on it before I put up a page, but...
Based on my understanding of Rigor Mortis, the ATP needed in order for the muscles to function would be a liquid. With this said, who knows what circulatory or other liquid systems in the body are still functioning in a Zed in order for them to actually move, let alone bite. As long as fluids stay active, chances are the body will not deteriorate. It is part of the microorganisms that live off of us eating our inactive bodies that causes us to rot away, but only once our fluids stop flowing. With fluids flowing, in order for the body to move (even at a reduced rate or lowered motor skills) the decomposition of a zombie could be well over 25 years or more, instead of the 3-5 year theory. Could even possibly be indeffinite as the microorganisms could leave the body once infected, or just never penetrate as long as they are active. Even look at frozen climates, the microorganisms could not live, so the bodies of 10000 year old cave men have barely decomposed at all...
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| woody100 | no! | 3 | Aug 12 2008, 8:06 AM EDT by NoxTerran | ||||
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Thread started: Aug 11 2008, 12:57 PM EDT
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as long as they had people to eat they wouldnt rot because, if they can see you, hear you, smell you, then surely there immune system would work because to have senses they must have alot of brain function.
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| Renegade13 | Decay? | 1 | Jul 7 2008, 7:29 PM EDT by ReverantFaun | ||||
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Thread started: May 30 2008, 11:51 PM EDT
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If an outbreak were to happen could we throw stuf on the zeds to make them decay faster?
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| dooran | Sunlight | 0 | Jun 1 2008, 7:29 PM EDT by dooran | ||||
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Thread started: Jun 1 2008, 7:29 PM EDT
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As much as I disagree with the assertion that zombies are dead, I will concede that point for the sake of the following theory:
When you go out into sunlight, the UV rays will cause a sunburn with enough exposure. When human skin is burned, the immune system goes about dealing with the dead, burned cells, and new un-burned cells begin to grow. Now, since zombies were human, it is reasonable to asume that their cells will recieve similar effects from UV exposure. Also, sinc they are "dead" then the immune system will not go about dealing with the burn, and no new cells will be produced. This esentially means that the burn just gets worse and worse until the burned skin just falls off, and the process continues on the inner tisues. There is also the possibility of infection causeing more damage to the zombies body. Now, this raises 2 interesting questions: 1. Does the exposure to sunlight result in accelerated cell death and destruction of the zombie's body? 2. Will the possibility of such a situation result in zombies becoming solely nocturnal? I certainly hope to God that both of those statements are true...if so, then we would be reasonably safe during the daytime. |
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| bundy747 | decay | 3 | Mar 20 2008, 4:41 PM EDT by DustinEchos104 | ||||
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Thread started: Nov 3 2007, 4:30 AM EDT
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Holding out for 2 weeks hoping for decay to take care of the zombies should be taken very cautiously. Some have speculated that In addition to lack of pain, loss of some senses and the heightening of other senses that the zombie virus also slows down decomposition to a rate so minimal that it would take months or even years for decay to slow or completely stop a zombie from functioning.
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| DMfromhell | Rigor Mortis | 0 | Feb 25 2008, 4:59 PM EST by DMfromhell | ||||
| SGT629 | Rigor mortis | 0 | Feb 12 2008, 9:56 PM EST by SGT629 | ||||
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Thread started: Feb 12 2008, 9:56 PM EST
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It supposedly takes 24 hours for a human(alive) to turn into a zombie. But first they would die. SO to some degree rigor mortis would take effect right after death slowing the zombie. And besides the reason zombies are slow is because they have very little balance and are uncoordinated. Just because rigor mortis hasn't taken affect doesn't mean being dead isn't akward.
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| Jnaran | Decay | 0 | Dec 21 2007, 12:51 PM EST by Jnaran | ||||
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Thread started: Dec 21 2007, 12:51 PM EST
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I would have to agree with Bundy747, one night you go to bed in a world where the dead stay dead and the universal laws apply, when you wake up the world has gone to hell, not only are the dead are walking, but they want your brains. This would mean that the universal laws we hold onto have gone out the window and need to be replaced by new ones, or better stated we would have to recheck reality to verify.
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