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Zombies fact or fiction?

L.Y.S.

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We are all familiar with Zombies. It is a real popular genre designed to make the viewer feel powerless and unsafe. Recently there has been an explosion of medical pandemic movies which emphasis the vulnerability of our modern soceity. In the bad drop of many of these medical "terror films" are zombies. Lifeless soulless creatures whose main purpose is to live, eat living things, and terrify the living. But when we look at it, is this possible or is it fantasy?
 
Well, the rabies virus alters the brain of its victim to make the victim act in a certain way that serves the purpose of the virus. The aggression of a rabid animal is due to the virus, which is not coincidentally transfered by saliva. Also the really creepy Toxoplasmosis gondii (I hope I got that right), which needs a cat to devour an infected rodent in order to comlplete its life cycle, causes the infected rodent to lose the fear of predators, and may actually cause the rodent to be attracted to feline urine. That's pretty much a zombie.
 
Zombies are totally real. I see them every day.

<--- works at an international coffee chain

(They can drive cars and everything! Just barely, but still...)
 
There's a fungus that infects the head cavities of ants, growing into their brains and turning them into zombies. Sans a brain, they just walk and walk aimlessly until they die, then a fruiting body (mushroom) grows out of their head and drops its spores in the new location.

There's also a species of fly that pokes a hole into the heads of ants and lays its eggs in there. Similarly, the ant goes about its business until the eggs hatch. The maggots then eat its brain, rendering it zombie-like (the bodily movements of ants apparently don't require brain power) until eventually its head falls off. The fly pupae gestate inside the head and eventually emerge as adult flies.

Ant zombies aren't quite as scary as human zombies, though plenty disgusting and creepy in their own right.
 
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Ewww. Hollywood has missed a trick there John. Mushrooms growing out of their heads? And heads dropping off? Crumbs.
 
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I enjoy posing questions about zombies, then trying to answer them.

Why are zombies so hungry?
Do they eat until they burst, or do they get full, digest, and poop it out?
If blood cannot circulate, how are the muscles powered?
How can they tell humans from other zombies?
 
OrangeCatz said:
I enjoy posing questions about zombies, then trying to answer them.

Why are zombies so hungry?
Do they eat until they burst, or do they get full, digest, and poop it out?
If blood cannot circulate, how are the muscles powered?
How can they tell humans from other zombies?
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Ok OrangeCatz, I'll try and break this to you reeeeally gently.....









Zombies aren't real. They're made up, like Santa Claus and the tooth fairy.
 
L.Y.S. said:
Lifeless soulless creatures whose main purpose is to live
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I have difficulties understanding what you want from us here.

As for the "soulless" part, I cannot give any authoritative answers. Maybe a priest could exorcise it.
 
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Why are zombies so hungry?

Zombies have no soul, so they have nothing to hold back their lust for human flesh (a desire which we all have, but is normally suppressed by our conscience).

Do they eat until they burst, or do they get full, digest, and poop it out?

Zombie 'digestion' is very efficient. Everything they eat is absorbed intact, directly into their bodies. Unfortunately however, they have trouble keeping their bodies together. Zombies have to keep eating because bits of them are constantly falling off!

Zombies get their energy from brains. To keep active they have to eat brains regularly (fresh Human brains are preferred because they are 'fully charged'). If you shoot a zombie in the head it looses all of its energy, falls down and cannot get up again (it's not 'dead', just inanimate).

Note: You have to destroy the entire brain, using eg. a shogun or high powered rifle (decapitation also works). Just injuring the brain is not enough - it has to splatter!

If blood cannot circulate, how are the muscles powered?

Zombie metabolism is anaerobic, which is much less efficient than aerobic respiration. That is why they move so slowly. Zombie muscle movement is controlled by animal magnetism. It works similarly to how electricity makes dead frogs legs twitch. This control is not centralized - each limb has 'a mind of its own' with limited coordination between different parts of the body. The energy source of the animal magnetism is the brain, but it has no control.

How can they tell humans from other zombies?

By our Aura. Zombies don't have souls so they don't have Auras. Zombies eyes are practically blind so they can't see normal light (unless it's very bright), but they 'see' in the spirit world (this is how they are able to get around at night without bumping into things).
 
One very simple solution to the Zombie Question is to stay indoors. Seriously, how quickly would tendons lose their tendonicity as they decayed in even average clement North American weather, along with the rest of Zack?


The cast of 'Day of The Dead' could have stayed holed up in their bunker while the hot Florida sun took care of The Horde....
 
Could we also please get NO MORE zombie expansion packs for popular video games? *Sigh*
 
Zombies are real, evidence is only anecdotal now that Michael Jackson is not around anymore. But on monday morning when i look into the mirror i am pretty sure to see a zombie.
 
So a Zombie Apocalypse is possible? :eek:

Need to get the surival gear ready.

The latest Zombie Thriller I've been watching on Netflix is "The Walking Dead". Really good show about a global outbreak and it has a very believable explanation for "re-animated corpses". Basically chemical hormones are released and re-animate the corpse.
 
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All I know is my wife & I argue constantly about her making our child "sleep sacks". How is he supposed to run when the Zombie Apocalypse happens!?!!?
 
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