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ChordsFreak |
Killing a zombie
Jul 7 2011, 9:53 AM EDT
I am familliar that seveere brain damage is the best option to kill anything, but one thought crossed my mind. Why can't I kill a zombie by let's say shooting it in the heart at the earliest stages of infection? I do understand that at some point the undead will evolve and the fact that they lack a heart won't stop them, but in the earliest stages, when they have a body anatomy very similliar to our own, why does everyone say that massive bloodloss in a zombies body won't kill it. All organs need blood to flow through them to get all the necesities to function properly. Correct me if I'm wrong, please, I am no doctor but am using basic knowledge of a human body. Thanks (Please consider that this question is linked with the most basic case-scenario, not an advanced accelerative-mutating virus, and please forgive my english) Do you find this valuable?
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TurnAndBurn |
1. RE: Killing a zombie
Jul 7 2011, 4:15 PM EDT
It really depends on whether or not the infection can reanimate tissue or "raise the dead" scientifically it's possible but unlikely. As for the science behind zombies themselves I'm pretty confident that nobody has ever seen, captured nor studied one so maybe a solid shot to center mass would be enough after all. I personally am of the opinion that it's all in the head shot to take down a zombie. Your English on a side note seems pretty good to me. Do you find this valuable? |
theman838 |
2. RE: Killing a zombie
Jul 7 2011, 4:47 PM EDT
Really anyone's opinion right now is just that, an opinion, Pure speculation. Until Zombies actually exist, we can spend our time better pondering other things.
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DblTapKillBot-x |
3. RE: Killing a zombie
Jul 7 2011, 9:00 PM EDT
Well I'm going to try and hazard an educated answer to your question ChordsFreakIf a zombie virus is only capable of traveling with the assistance of a moving bloodstream. There would be a legitimate reason to believe that if you stop the heart from pumping, the virus will not reach the brain. Which means no reanimation of the deceased. Stopping the virus before it gets to the brain though will be difficult. You would have to stop the heart of the infected person within a 10second window or less. Now with that being said, you might as well destroy the brain of an infected person to make absolutely sure they don't come back. You don't make a mistake that will come back to bite you in the a$ literally lol Also, I believe a zombie is controlled by electrical impulses from the brain through the nervous system. Which could explain why you gotta destroy the brain or severe their head to put them down permanently. So blood loss and organs,other than the brain, that don't function will not phase a zombie. Do you find this valuable? |
chitoryu12 |
4. RE: Killing a zombie
Jul 9 2011, 8:13 PM EDT
Unless you got a virus like the 28 Days Later style, which produces what are in effect ordinary humans driven into an animalistic rage against all living things around. In this case a headshot would still be the best way to eliminate them, but blood loss and bodily damage would still be effective. If they still maintain some awareness of pain and self-preservation (recall the Night of the Living Dead zombies who feared fire), that could work to our advantage: blasting their torsos apart would be a deterrent, rather than leading to them simply sprinting over their entrails until their brain shut down.
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ben360 |
5. RE: Killing a zombie
Jul 16 2011, 11:25 PM EDT
I think that there's a good chance that Zack will manifest itself in a rabies-type virus, and that you could kill one with enough blood-loss, but why not just make it a shot to the brain and know beyond a shadow of a doubt the thing is dead?
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kit_christo |
6. RE: Killing a zombie
Jul 25 2011, 5:20 AM EDT
I am of the opinion that unless there is a T-Virus which reanimates dead tissue, electrical impulses from the brain would not be enough to maintain the body of rotting flesh. I'd love to headshot and decapitate as many zombies as possible to ensure my survival but I'm sure that left alone their bodies would simply decompose and become ineffective. Perhaps their hunger for flesh is what keeps their bodies intact. If so, if all humanity is zombified then eventually they will all just die, at which point those that rode out the storm will be safe to come out of hiding without having to personally behead every zombie on the planet.
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PedroAsani |
7. RE: Killing a zombie
Jul 25 2011, 7:03 AM EDT
"I am of the opinion that unless there is a T-Virus which reanimates dead tissue, electrical impulses from the brain would not be enough to maintain the body of rotting flesh. I'd love to headshot and decapitate as many zombies as possible to ensure my survival but I'm sure that left alone their bodies would simply decompose and become ineffective. Perhaps their hunger for flesh is what keeps their bodies intact. If so, if all humanity is zombified then eventually they will all just die, at which point those that rode out the storm will be safe to come out of hiding without having to personally behead every zombie on the planet."You are assuming a lot about the physiology will remain the same. But the existence of zombies means the physiology has changed. You can throw those assumptions out of the window. There are many archetypes where dead isn't dead, but shorthand for "cerebral and cardiopulmonary activity is slowed to a point undetectable and therefore indistinguishable from death." Do you find this valuable? |
