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Zombie Science
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What We Know
We've got the basics covered - zombies are "undead" and they are quite "bite-y." Beyond that, we have nothing but speculation. That makes your guess as good as ours. What Do We Need More Information On?
Just about everything! Illuminate us with your insights on any of these topics: - Why do zombies hunt the living? Knowing this might give us a decided edge in a Z war.
- The classic issue - - are zombies slow moving? Fast?
- Does a zombie ever decay enough to cease being a threat?
The zombie that's closing in on you... he looks hungry. But what sort of palate does he have? Is he a basic carnivore - ready and willing to eat anything, as long as it's flesh? Or does he veer towards the gourmet... the delicacy - does he long for brains and brains alone? One might say, "What difference does it make? He wants to eat me! Neither choice is really all that comforting." But is this the case?
If the zombie will eat any manner of flesh - meat, bones, brains, organs, etc. - then what draws him to it? Is it the smell given off by humans? Is it a pheromone? Is his desire to feast on a living human a means to satisfy his hunger, or does he know instinctively that by biting a human, he continues his species? In either case, he seems to be driven by instinct, not intellect. But what if his sole desire is to eat living human brains? We are again faced with the question, how does he know what he wants and how does he find it? It seems unlikely that the zombie can smell the brains inside our heads, but that does not make it impossible. Assuming that most zombies did not eat human brains while they were alive, how would they know that they wanted to eat them as a zombie, and how would they know how to track down living human brains once they became zombies?
Why does the zombie hunger so? Since undeath presumably stops all normal biological processes pertaining to maintaining the body as a living organism, one would assume that eating as a means or survival would be eliminated. Does the zombie's rotting brain constantly send it hunger pains, making it constantly search for a means to satiate its need for fulfillment? This seems unlikely, given the zombie's disregard for other forms of nourishment. He could sit down with a box of Oreos and skip all that chasing and fighting for a mouthful of little Billy or little Sally. So he is clearly drawn to human flesh; presumably only living human flesh as we don't see zombie's attacking each other. (If we can someday isolate what draws them to the living, we might be able to block their reception of this signal. We might be able to turn it into a chemical agent that we can crop dust an infested area, thus making the zombies turn on each other...)
Whether the zombie on your heels wants only your brains, or will settle for your flesh, we must determine why he wants it, and we must determine how he knows where you are. The science that takes place in the early days of the plague will be invaluable to the survival of the human race. The questions raised here and elsewhere must be answered if we are to win the war."
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| Paranoid_Vampire | A quick and brief study on Zombi (plural of Zombie = Zombi) (page: 1 2) | 20 | Nov 8 2011, 3:47 PM EST by Hega-boy | ||
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Thread started: Nov 6 2011, 5:20 PM EST
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A few simple things:
1. When you become one of the Infected, your eyesight dulls and becomes blurry, and your sense of smell sharpens exceedingly. Zombi can often locate humans by smell. 2. Though no zombie has any actual memory of its past, it will be compelled to journey to places where it used to go in its lifetime, i.e. grocery store, work etc. 3. Though zombi stumble because their flesh- and senses- are somewhat rotted, they should be only slightly slower than humans. 4. Zombi do in fact eat brains only , because of their lack of them. They somehow long to recover the brain matter. Also, they will not eat the brains until the bitten person turns into a zombie and joins them. They will then devour the brains, and the fresh zombie will search for humans to devour. |
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| Happyman0 | Babies! | 19 | Mar 24 2011, 1:09 PM EDT by PedroAsani | ||
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| zombokill | stay put or go out? | 13 | Mar 4 2011, 10:52 PM EST by EastCoaster9000 | ||
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Thread started: Feb 26 2011, 3:04 PM EST
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Well i was thinking the other day... if zombies were on my street, what would i do? Go outside and face certain death? or stay put and wait for help? Firstly i have enough food in my house to feed me and my family for about 2 weeks if we ration it out. We dont have any guns, just blunt weapons and stuff. Supposeing i gooutside deadrising style and fasten a bunck of knifes to a golf club then im dead meat.
What im saying is, what would you do? grab a chainsaw and hope for the best or hold hands and read bibles, praying for help. The best idea is to keep calm and get to the roof, acces the situation from hight and see how many zombies are outside. if i like my odds i would clmib from house roof to house roof until i get somwhere safe. here i would scavange to find some food and weapons and secure the area. Im thinking of looking for more survivors so that we can band together and meybe put a wall around our territory and keep out zombies. Definatly get out of the city first! meybe go to the peat district. im safer there as there are more small towns that will have less zombies and probably more unscavenged supllies. |
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