fast zombie versus slow zombie

[wynn]

definitely in a garlic soaked tent inside a chapel within a field of garlic surrounded with a fence of silver tipped sharpened wooden stakes.

[tec0]

That might actually work the only problem is vampires can set fire to everything and you will be lunch anyway. If it was me I go for the isolation island bit. Take the movie “I am legend” How stupid do you have to be to live among zombies “intelligent” zombies and your dwelling is made of wood?

3 little pigs’ words of wisdom: when the big bad wolf comes calling you are better off in a place made of brick, stone and harden reinforced concrete with heavy 40cm tick vault doors. AKA a bank or something with big heavy doors and limited access. With all the recourses surrounding the aria something could have been done.

Off all the places in all the word a wooden house would be my last option not my first option.

Still overall it was really not a bad movie

[Superscenic]

Don't Joke, it could happen!

http://www.cracked.com/article_15643_5-scientific-reasons-zombie-apocalypse-could-actually-happen.html

<5 scientific reasons a Zombie Apocalypse could actually happen...Also I wouldn't stay on a boat because they can just walk underwater and climb up my anchor chain.

@AndyD I am glad you have procedures and suits prepared. However I believe here in Cape Town a Zombie outbreak would occur during Newland's rugby season. Lots of people, traffic at a standstill and hordes of them pouring out of the stadium into the congestion.

Vampires don't scare me much because they value the scarcity of good/clean food and will not interfere with the cattle(us). According to America, Vampires seem to become utterly harmless and quite frankly retarded when subjected to the love obsession of stupid teens and EMO's.

The vast amount of Vampire wannabes and popular culture groupies will act as a buffer to minimize feeding impacting on the rest of us; as a vampire proclaiming him/herself will attract a sudden flashflood of american teens hoping to be fed upon. The Vampire will quickly become repulsed by such disgusting sycophancy and promptly wish to kill itself to escape. Hopefully not before tearing as many annoying teens to shreds as possible. Problem solved.

[tec0]

The truth is animating the dead is not “just fiction” Remember the supper rich that freezes their bodies in hope of reanimation. Well the world of medicine is limited and restricted to what the flesh and brain can handle before it dies.

So what happens to a body and mind that will function forever? Well the mind can store massif amounts of information and it is said that we use about 2% and if you are really smart 3% of our brains. So if our DNA wasn’t suicidal living forever would be possible and you will not go mad because the brain will not grow old.

Sadly our DNA is suicidal and is programmed to break down. Now if you are a zombie your DNA structure will NOT stop to break down because DNA and sub systems like decomposition will still continue the process. If you can stop the DNA from killing it-self and you can stop decomposition then your brain will be intact. And more importantly it will be functional. How functional well it depends on what function is? Staying alive or playing computer games? Its function is staying alive so it will eat. But because the DNA can no longer break down the food may rebuild it and with time the brain my restore full function.

However IF your DNA cannot rebuild and cannot be destroyed then YES you have yourself a Zombie.

Vampires I don’t get? Because they cannot grow old they live on blood “plausible” but for some stupid reason they still can die of hunger so the DNA suicide program was not rewritten it is only placed on hold? Interesting concept but again it is a bit more complicated??

[wynn]

for those who don't understand

[tec0]

Ever watched Shaun of the Dead? It is bloody brilliant

[wynn]

in case of zombies

in case of zombies break table

[AndyD]

Has anyone been watching The Walking Dead? It's a very good series.

[CrazyCow]

What makes The Walking Dead a good series? It's been on recently, and with all the repeats, there's been not much else to watch!

[CrazyCow]

What makes The Walking Dead a good series? It's been on recently, and with all the repeats, there's been not much else to watch!

Sorry it posted before I'd finished!!

The above is a serious question, not a critism.
This thread has been very entertaining and enlightening. Previously I've avoided zombie movies cos the thought of them is quite frightening, and they resemble some people too closely, except for the eating people bit.

I'd really like to know what makes this series good so I can watch it with new eyes.

[tec0]

It is a bit to human and too "well how else can I say this American??" Here you have thousands of zombies willing to eat you find you at any and all cost. Yet it shows the human mind at work. How we as humans will react and how they will survive.

It is good to watch lots of drama human emotion and the action is not to bad. Human betrayal, how simple act can make people self-righteous and just conclude that they alone are right is just some of the aspects touched here.

[AndyD]

What makes The Walking Dead a good series?

I just like the zombies, they're the classic slow moving variety and they seem to have some residual memory of when they were still human. They can only be killed by head trauma and they show no fear, they can even climb stairs...well some of them can at least. I also like the fact that every human that dies becomes a zombie, they don't need to be bitten. Even if someone dies of natural causes and there's no zombies around for miles that person still becomes a zombie anyway.

[wynn]

I couldn't decide

I couldn't decide if this belonged here or in the BEE thread

[ians]

While driving through morning side a couple of weeks back, i noticed a black bakkie, big spots on the roof, tinted windows the whole deal, with "Zombie" reaction unit displayed on the back and sides, it was just after reading this thread so i turned around went back and took a pic with my phone, will load when i get around to downloade dit to my laptop.

[AndyD]

Well whoever they are they're obviously doing a great job, I haven't heard of a zombie being sighted in the Morningside area for years.