Poll: Zombies Apocalypse: Could it happen?

[RatRace123]

My guess is that if a human being could be reanimated after being dead, then that would technically make them a zombie. I'm not sure they would be hungry for human flesh though, or they would be "infected" they'd just be a person who was once dead, but now isn't.

If we're getting really nit-picky then, several zombies actually exist thanks to the miracles of modern medicine, people who's hearts stop for what reason or another are dead, some of them get revived thanks to the good doctors out there. If we're taking that route, than I myself, am a zombie.

Boring sciency stuff over [sub]brains[/sub]

 

[solidstatemind]

My guess is that if a human being could be reanimated after being dead, then that would technically make them a zombie. I'm not sure they would be hungry for human flesh though, or they would be "infected" they'd just be a person who was once dead, but now isn't.

If we're getting really nit-picky then, several zombies actually exist thanks to the miracles of modern medicine, people who's hearts stop for what reason or another are dead, some of them get revived thanks to the good doctors out there. If we're taking that route, than I myself, am a zombie.

Boring sciency stuff over [sub]brains[/sub]

Please don't muddle the issue with sarcasm. You are still alive: your heart beats, your neurons transmit signals. Your brain still thinks. Ergo, you are not a zombie. You are someone who has benefited from modern medicine.

Let these fools have their adolescent fantasies, without the cold brick of reality disturbing them. Trust me: it appears that the zombie populous are not the only ones completely devoid of cognitive thought...

 

[Kataskopo]

I'm always looking for buildings and thinking if they are safe enough to the zombie hordes. I at leas have identified 3 buildings within a 10 km radius and places to get weapons.

It's actually pretty amusing.

 

[PyroZombie]

Hold on, I need to find a thing I said before

Yeah it would be possible, theoretically.

If the virus takes out everything except the "reptile" part of the brain (The one telling us to eat, fight and run), you would have point one and two.

Now if you made it so it infects the spit too, it would go into the wound and infect the blood of the bitten

Pretty scary, huh

Now you know how to make a zombie.

Have fun apocalypse-ing

YEaaahhh no. There is no 'reptile' part of the brain.

He's refering to the line of code embedded deep within our psyche."The Animal within" or the very basic instinct to survive.

 

[TheDoctor455]

Not very likely to happen. At least not in the sense that most people keep going on about...

 

[Srkkl]

It's extremely highly unlikely, and even if it does there is enough media for all types of audiences that any sort of outbreaks would be stopped almost immediatly.

 

[solidstatemind]

No, zombies will never happen not even with viruses. If you think it could you need to research viruses to do some learning. It's nothing but a fantasy.

*clears throat*

Actually, this is not as unrealistic as one might believe. There are already viruses and parasites(that remind you of the Las Plagas)that exist naturally in the world. Their symptoms are both numerous and different, but there is no question that many of them would indeed fall under the criteria of what we commonly associate zombies with.

However, it's not very likely that any of them would spawn an Apocalypse of any kind.

Been discussed to death in the topic.

Well...ninjas are everywhere, not my fault...
I'm gonna go now.

I don't think he was slagging on you specifically; I think he was simply saying: "at least parse the previous posts..." Excuse the excessive consonance.

 

[jakeEHTlovless]

Hold on, I need to find a thing I said before

Yeah it would be possible, theoretically.

If the virus takes out everything except the "reptile" part of the brain (The one telling us to eat, fight and run), you would have point one and two.

Now if you made it so it infects the spit too, it would go into the wound and infect the blood of the bitten

Pretty scary, huh

Now you know how to make a zombie.

Have fun apocalypse-ing

YEaaahhh no. There is no 'reptile' part of the brain.

I think he means the part that controls our basic instincts.

No, no it could not. Does it really need to be explained why?

The poll options are quite stupid as well.

Also, when did Zombies come back into fashion, for god's sake! I hate zombie threads!

Me too. They're one of the only things that actually get me frustrated.
Why are zombies even "cool"? They're not scary/amazing/useful in any way.

I much prefer the vampire thing - at least that has a romantic aspect, not just mindless gore.

if your talking about the 30 days of night vamps, this yes there cooler, and the only reason books betray vamps to be romantic is... well, lets be honest, its easier to have someone vulnerable to suck there blood, much harder to do that to some one who hates you, if your trying to be a fucking ninja vamp.

OT: im not worried now, but at least i have a plan for the future.... yes i do have a lot of free time.

 

[PyroZombie]

No, zombies will never happen not even with viruses. If you think it could you need to research viruses to do some learning. It's nothing but a fantasy.

Some species of wasp inject a virus into caterpillars (after injecting their eggs into them) that forces the caterpillars to protect the wasp larvae from enemies.

A species of worm infects a grasshopper and compels it to commit suicide by drowning.

A type of fungi burrows its head into the brains of ants, compelling them to seek higher ground so that it can explode out of its head and release its spores.

And what about rabies? A disease that turns people into mindless attackers, spreading infections through bites?

We are not insects.

As for rabies, they're not actually mindless or do you not know much about rabies? It really, really fucks with your brain. You're delirious, hallucinating, paranoid and terrified.

We are not insects but if you believe in evolution, we all come from the same line of genetic code. It would take a super-virus of some sort but It's none the less a percentile of a chance happening.

As for the rabies disease; What you described are very close to all the urgings of a "Infected" zombie. Hallucination and Delirium with the combination of paranoia and terror will access a human's will to survive, causing damage to most things that appear to move. In worse case scenarios, since the mind is conscious during this frightful experience, it will stress the mind causing PTSD or symptoms like it which could easily cause with continued exposure cause over-the-edge insanity, worsening all the symptoms and maybe causing irreversible damage to the Psyche.

I can prove this, have you ever seen a cat corner a mouse? The mouse backs up as far as it can. Horrified this massive creature, the mouse will actually attack the cat, there have even been cases where mice have even killed cats during these moments of self-defense.

Simply put, all these truly considered, some mutated strain, Which we actually do manufacture mutated strains of different diseases for research for cures and weapons you know, of rabies or even of a disease completely different could produce such a effect.

And even if things turn to the majority, You forget our curiosity as human beings is down-right damning. We constantly poke our heads into things we really shouldn't poke our heads into every scientific day. We could just as easy discover a disease that have such an effect. If theirs one intelligent thing I've learned from living on this earth, is that predicting the future should not be done unless considering the fact that human's can do both impossibly smart things and impossibly stupid things.

And in order to idea of zombification has always been disease-fueled. Some suspect, though I think none has confirmed it, that George Romero had gotten his concept from a disease caused by Tsetse Flies in Africa known as "the sleeping sickness", that produce the actual symptoms of zombification, the desire to eat flesh could have come from the idea of any one of the cannibalistic tribes that still exist mind you in Africa. The only problem with the sleeping sickness is that the Zombification is the last stage before death, but a slight mutation is all it takes to grant a longer range of life before actual death.

 

[Zeromaeus]

I'm of the school of thought that anything is entirely possible, but most things simply aren't plausible enough to devote any thought to. Zombies could happen. The likely-hood of zombies happening are so infinitesimal, however, I promise you I won't lose any sleep over it. The government (just labeling an organization that would want you placated) taking over our free-will? In the next 1000 years? Yeah, I believe that'll happen over zombies. Like I said though, anything is possible. Through some remote possibility, some creature from another reality could be jerked from its universe to ours via a wormhole or some anomalous occurrence of the like and actually spread an honest to God zombie virus in our world because it developed in a universe with different rules than/older than/warped and twisted from ours. Will this happen? You have more of a chance of winning the lottery every time you enter it for the rest of your life, I'm sure. I don't have the actual equation for such a likely-hood, but I imagine it would be a little too complex for me, or you, to understand. Or maybe God, Satan, Buddha, Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM for short), etc. might decide its time to mix things up a little. I dunno. I don't care. I could kill zombies. Walking dead or otherwise. There's an ABC store right to a gun shop downtown, and the gun shop has an upstairs. There's even a Food Lion across the street. Food, guns, my sword (yes I have a sword (4) so shut up), molotovs, potential control over food, guns, and even more important alcohol (what people won't do for alcohol). All I would have to do is kill the zombies, make it past the rioters (this is the tricky part) and meet up with the other survivors who were just as intuitive as me. Lets see (rummages through stuff), my P08 is functional, my swords ... that one needs sharpening and I won't take this one (its decorative), survival kit (my Biology teacher had me make one for a project back when I was in high school. I still keep it updated), and I'll need a shitload of batteries for my flashlight and laptop. Just because there are zombies around doesn't mean I shouldn't have solitaire and minesweeper in the same machine.

 

[Elf Defiler Korgan]

Keep dreaming. It would not be a picnic if it were to happen, and our fragile minds would most likely, not last long.

 

[PyroZombie]

No, zombies will never happen not even with viruses. If you think it could you need to research viruses to do some learning. It's nothing but a fantasy.

Some species of wasp inject a virus into caterpillars (after injecting their eggs into them) that forces the caterpillars to protect the wasp larvae from enemies.

A species of worm infects a grasshopper and compels it to commit suicide by drowning.

A type of fungi burrows its head into the brains of ants, compelling them to seek higher ground so that it can explode out of its head and release its spores.

And what about rabies? A disease that turns people into mindless attackers, spreading infections through bites?

We are not insects.

As for rabies, they're not actually mindless or do you not know much about rabies? It really, really fucks with your brain. You're delirious, hallucinating, paranoid and terrified.

We are not insects but if you believe in evolution, we all come from the same line of genetic code. It would take a super-virus of some sort but It's none the less a percentile of a chance happening.

As for the rabies disease; What you described are very close to all the urgings of a "Infected" zombie. Hallucination and Delirium with the combination of paranoia and terror will access a human's will to survive, causing damage to most things that appear to move. In worse case scenarios, since the mind is conscious during this frightful experience, it will stress the mind causing PTSD or symptoms like it which could easily cause with continued exposure cause over-the-edge insanity, worsening all the symptoms and maybe causing irreversible damage to the Psyche.

I can prove this, have you ever seen a cat corner a mouse? The mouse backs up as far as it can. Horrified this massive creature, the mouse will actually attack the cat, there have even been cases where mice have even killed cats during these moments of self-defense.

Simply put, all these truly considered, some mutated strain, Which we actually do manufacture mutated strains of different diseases for research for cures and weapons you know, of rabies or even of a disease completely different could produce such a effect.

And even if things turn to the majority, You forget our curiosity as human beings is down-right damning. We constantly poke our heads into things we really shouldn't poke our heads into every scientific day. We could just as easy discover a disease that have such an effect. If theirs one intelligent thing I've learned from living on this earth, is that predicting the future should not be done unless considering the fact that human's can do both impossibly smart things and impossibly stupid things.

And in order to idea of zombification has always been disease-fueled. Some suspect, though I think none has confirmed it, that George Romero had gotten his concept from a disease caused by Tsetse Flies in Africa known as "the sleeping sickness", that produce the actual symptoms of zombification, the desire to eat flesh could have come from the idea of any one of the cannibalistic tribes that still exist mind you in Africa. The only problem with the sleeping sickness is that the Zombification is the last stage before death, but a slight mutation is all it takes to grant a longer range of life before actual death.

You know nothing about evolution do you?

Firstly you're contradicting any argument for zombies. A zombie is by definition a mindless thing, meaning it wouldn't have the mental capacity for any of that even if it was just relying on the rudimentary survival instincts. A zombie can not hallucinate without the brain functions to do so, nor can it feel paranoia without awareness or fear. What you are describing is NOT a zombie by any definition, not an infected zombie, not a magic zombie and not an undead zombie. You're just describing an angry person with mental issues.

The mouse example is completely irrelevant, it's survival instincts and part of a fight or flight reaction. With no option to flee it's only choice for survival is to fight the cat.

You're just babbling incoherently. A disease that could do what? Be rabies? We already have rabies. You're just going in pointless circles not achieving anything and certainly not creating any sort of point for zombies.

As had been said in this topic, if a disease that could make zombies existed it would have been discovered and documented by now. You really shouldn't talk about diseases or anything if you don't even know the very, very basics of anything. You're arguing using fucking video game logic here. A guy made a movie disease because he heard about a disease and it inspired him to make something interesting and scary. Ok, that means NOTHING though. It is a fucking FICTIONAL movie. Your post was the most worthless zombie defense in this topic, everyone else had managed better.

You fail to see my real point. Just as sarcasm doesn't travel well across the internet, neither does subtlety, positive-towards-idea, satire.

Without the fact of the Tsetse flies, or that of a mutation in a disease, man-made or otherwise, even forgetting the fact of yourself dismissing everything as nothing but harmless fiction but given any quantitative event where a scientist had truly tried and came unsuccessful to create a zombie via new(Running, violent, survival-driven, human although that isn't too different from some human beings) or old(Human) definition, Nothing can be truly dis-proven, and as well as proven due to the human curiosity left so unchecked. If there is an idea given to someone that intrigues someone to the point of creating such an effect, using anything from chemicals to machinery just to duplicate sheer results of it and then perfecting it- You know what, fuck the scientific jargon.

Humans are creatures of curiosity. Nothing is fictional because the idea exists, and with enough of a push torwards biological weaponry, as well as fully-automated regenerative technology, we could very look at a zombie in not our day, but towards the future of our children's children's age, of a new definition but none-the-less a variation.

Humans have created a number of things that have gone on to destroy us, who's to say the won't throw out the code of ethics and play "God" as they and their superiors have done before?

There is no answer, the purpose of calling anyone right or wrong is utterly idiotic when the future is shapeless, don't argue against it, or argue with it just accept that we don't know for certain and move on to the next question, as we are meant.