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ViolentKisses |
Flesh-Eatting Super Bugs!
Apr 5 2012, 7:58 AM EDT
OK this is a strange one, but I watched an episode of CSI in which assassins used flesh eating beetles to dispose quickly of bodies and any evidence soft tissue leaves behind. These bugs were able to do this rather quickly as well something along the lines of less than a day. The beetles were bio engineering to have a heightened metabolism leading them to do what they do naturally ((consume dead flesh)), at a stunning pace.It made me curious as to the feasibility of such veracious insects and their implications on possible military strategies for getting rid of zombies. Willows in the Wind was title of the CSI epsiode in which these beetles were used. Season 12, Episode 12 - Air Date: 01/25/12 1 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you? |
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1. RE: Flesh-Eatting Super Bugs!
Apr 5 2012, 11:24 AM EDT
Ugh....why did you have to bring up flesh eating....If you've never seen a brown recluse bite, google it. I got bit by one a few years ago. Only difference is that was toxin, not legit eating my flesh... I don't think the idea is too far fetched. There are all kinds of animals and bugs that eat dead flesh on land and sea. Using it as a tactic to get rid of them may be a little slow, and the sheer number required may have some other serious impacts on the environment. I see it as a good clean up method though. 2 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you? |
Oakspar77777 |
2. RE: Flesh-Eatting Super Bugs!
Apr 5 2012, 6:49 PM EDT
Dermestid beetles are often used to clean bones for taxidemy. Even half starved adults would do you no good against zed - as it would take hours for them to strip enough to cause degeneration, even if they would eat a moving corpse.Since they exist in the wild, if they were going to eat zed, I think they would do so along with fly maggots and other saprobes - ending the zombie threat in short order (weeks to months with warm weather). Having a sand bin with dermestids pre-apoc would be something only large taxidermy shops would have (most small shops send off their skulls for stripping or risk boiling them clean instead). It would serve as a means of corpse disposal - but with a full fleashed body it would take some time to strip it. It would probably be easier to just boil up zed to sterility in steel barrels and feed the boiled meat and organs to your dogs and chickens. 2 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you? |
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ViolentKisses |
3. RE: Flesh-Eatting Super Bugs!
Apr 7 2012, 3:58 PM EDT
Hmm what about some non airborne variety that could be used to clean body pits post zday?Doesn't seem safe to bury vast numbers of bodies and risk contamination of ground water. I mean you can plan on moving bodies from your property off and away a few miles but how do you know when your far enough and it's really safe? This may be getting bit off topic but laying down a layer or two of plastic in a mass grave may help fluids from leaching into the soil. Then the question remains if you wanted to cover the bodies with a layer of soil are there any good species of insect that can work underground? Leaving them exposed with the smell seems liked a possible draw for more zombies, or hostiles, and or even a contamination risk. Burn them first then bury? Maybe we should skip the bugs all together? 0 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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ViolentKisses |
4. RE: Flesh-Eatting Super Bugs!
Apr 7 2012, 4:00 PM EDT
Then again burning bodies takes a ton of fuel and while they may be crispy on the outside they are likely still moist and poise a contamination risk with their gooey insides.I did alot of thinking out loud in this thread. 0 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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Oakspar77777 |
5. RE: Flesh-Eatting Super Bugs!
Apr 7 2012, 10:05 PM EDT
If you look up vermiculture, you will find that a worm bin with good red wrigglers in it can do a number on food waste. If you scaled that up, you could likely create a system that would work our a few bodies a week. The problem with corpses is the juicy-ness. There is not much that can fix that. A large asphalt parking lot will dessicate them swiftly in summer, raised racks worked for some tribles of indians, and burning will do that as well. If possible, I will likely just take them as far away (and downstream) as possible and dump them. Out of sight, out of mind - and natures foces will do what they do. If not, a shallow grave is best, since most worms stay in the top eight inches. Also, the shallow grave is less likely to contaminate ground water. Note that scavangers might do some digging up. A drained pool would make an ideal body pit. 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
