Is the Zombie Apocalypse inevitable?

Augmerson

There's a game on the internet called Day Z, and it's about surviving in a post-apocalyptic world filled with Zombies. The biggest danger however is from people. Teams of people stake out towns or forts, raid abandon posts for supplies and kill other survivors and take their weapons. I reckon that'll be the biggest concern, not Zombies but people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7Q8c8jnL3s

Renegade Mechanic

Ill just go ahead and leave this for yall :pac:

endacl

There's also a running app called 'zombies, run!'...

Lotsa fun. And lets you train for outrunning the dead, with scary sound effects.

Potatoeman

Most people dont have emergancy food supplies never mind anything else. If there was some major incident and food supplies ran out most people would be starving. Even keeping a few tins is better than nothing.

Teyla Emmagan

I knew there was a reason I was saving for flying lessons. All you need is a chopper and some poxy little island off the west coast. One of the uninhabited ones, to be safe. Might be boring as hell living on nothing but sheep/seaweed, but at least you'd survive.

Mr Benevolent

Hold on, this stupid zombie apocalypse idea has a fatal flaw:

Zombies eat brains. Zombies are killed when their brain is destroyed. Anyone who is killed by a zombie will have their brains eaten. So none of the infected will have a brain as it will have been eaten. Logically then, they can't become a zombie if their brains have been eaten. So the 'zombie apocalypse' would be a self-limiting problem.

QED. You're welcome.

endacl

Mr Benevolent wrote: »

Hold on, this stupid zombie apocalypse idea has a fatal flaw:

Zombies eat brains. Zombies are killed when their brain is destroyed. Anyone who is killed by a zombie will have their brains eaten. So none of the infected will have a brain as it will have been eaten. Logically then, they can't become a zombie if their brains have been eaten. So the 'zombie apocalypse' would be a self-limiting problem.

QED. You're welcome.

Common misconception. Zombie vegetarians crave cauliflower.

And grrraaaiiinnnsss...

Micky Dolenz

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

It's not a matter of if but when. Don't fear though. A specialist Boardsie survival team has been in training for years. Their objective is to save a select list of current Boardsies. To ensure we can protect the core of boards.ie.

Am I on it? Yknow, since I started the Zombie Survival forum? Yeah? Well, I better be! :pac:

The Zombie Apocalypse isn't as far fetched as people make it out to be; all it'll take is for the Rabies virus to mutate and we're all pretty much screwed.

ScumLord

Artful_Badger wrote: »

If it does happen it wont be anything like the movies. Everyone will get infected, go crazy and die. Those that survive the infection will starve to death, be killed by the crazies or kill themselves due to lack of internet.

I think it will be a more drawn out process, the major factor that will kill most people will be the breakdown of international trade. Without that there won't be food on the shelfs, essential services won't get the maintenance they need. It will reach a critical tipping point where society crumples. That will force everyone out onto the streets in desperation and that's when the zombies will be the most effective.

Mr Benevolent wrote: »

The zombie apocalypse will never happen, sorry to be the one to tell you all. There'll probably be a flu pandemic, but that will be survivable by simply staying at home.

You cant just stay at home. Most people don't have the supplies and even if you do you'll have all your neighbours wanting a piece of it. Zombification is happening in the natural world. WE're just lucky it's not happening to us yet.

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

It's not a matter of if but when. Don't fear though. A specialist Boardsie survival team has been in training for years. Their objective is to save a select list of current Boardsies. To ensure we can protect the core of boards.ie.

If there are any telecoms engineers I've still got an opening on my kidnap list of specialists. If **** does go down there's no need to worry, I will find you.

JohnDee wrote: »

We're at a disadvantage in this country, very limited access to automatic weapons.

That's not a disadvantage at all. You'll be much better off if your friends and enemies aren't armed.

Potatoeman

JohnDee wrote: »

We're at a disadvantage in this country, very limited access to automatic weapons. If most zombie flicks I've seen is anything to go by you need to raid gun store first off, then take your survival plan from there. The old smoothbore shotguns loaded with Rook Be Dead pellet cartridges will be of limited use in repelling denizens of the grave.

Block doors and windows on the ground floor then a block on a rope from the second floor, works for tv licence inspector too.

Micky Dolenz

Potatoeman wrote: »

Block doors and windows on the ground floor then a block on a rope from the second floor, works for tv licence inspector too.

They've heard all the excuses. Including a zombie apocalypse

Grayson

Potatoeman wrote: »

Most people dont have emergancy food supplies never mind anything else. If there was some major incident and food supplies ran out most people would be starving. Even keeping a few tins is better than nothing.

Befriend a mormon. Most keep a stock of emergency food

http://www.lds.org/topics/emergency-preparedness

Potatoeman

Grayson wrote: »

Befriend a mormon. Most keep a stock of emergency food

http://www.lds.org/topics/emergency-preparedness

For when the velocirRaptue arrives.

CS Hasuki

It's already upon us, with threads like this.

Morph the Cat

When is the lame zombie fad going to end? Do you all think Chuck Norris facts are hilarious too?

endacl

Morph the Cat wrote: »

When is the lame zombie fad going to end? Do you all think Chuck Norris facts are hilarious too?

Well, not all of them. Just most of them.

UCDVet

Zombies would be a complete non-issue if they were anything like the zombies in the movies.

Duckworth_Luas

I've already started glowing plants in neat rows on my front lawn. I'll be safe just as long as the zombies walk in straight lines towards them and none of them are capable of polt vaulting.

wicklowstevo

actually in the event of a zombie apocalypse the best fire arm to have is a . 22 and a impact weapon , perhaps a hurley

so Ireland isn't such a bad place to be what with it being an island and all, fairly farming orientated. lots of castles and other natural defensive features

Morph the Cat

UCDVet wrote: »

Zombies would be a complete non-issue if they were anything like the zombies in the movies.

They're already a complete non issue because they don't exist and "zombie survival techniques" is just a kooky internet fad.

endacl

Morph the Cat wrote: »

They're already a complete non issue because they don't exist and "zombie survival techniques" is just a kooky internet fad.

Awful shame you're stuck here with nothing else to talk about....

Are there no other topics that interest you? Perhaps you could start a thread?

ScumLord

UCDVet wrote: »

Zombies would be a complete non-issue if they were anything like the zombies in the movies.

Fast zombies would be a bit of a non issue in the real world. The human body would rip itself apart in a few hours if it acted like they did.

A more realistic slow zombie would be very dangerous. A disease that could achieve that wouldn't take a few hours, viruses and the like need days to do their work. With a few days of incubation and infectious people walking around infecting others a huge chunk of the population would be infected before zombies start appearing at all. It would kill cities and turn them into toxic waste dumps for years, even if the zombies never roam outside the city that's the end of the modern world as we know it.

International trade is one of the most important aspects of modern society, anything that prevents that from happening will have tremendous effects on the human population. the zombies pose an immediate threat but the real problem will be the breakdown of international trade.

anncoates

It's inevitable to the handful of overgrown teenagers that waffle about it online, I suppose.

Notorious97

Please be shufflers if it happens

Howard Juneau

Its started! We can't escape them if they have wings, crafty buggers!
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/comment/geekquinox/bizarre-zombie-pigeons-plague-moscow-raising-concerns-infectious-175021354.html

The_B_Man

I was thinking about this the other day.
How do zombies identify healthy people? Is it movement or some infra-red/Utra-Violet means? Or is it that healthy humans would walk around normal?

If its just that zombies can identify one type of "food", ie healthy humans, then all we have to do is dress differently, like put on a big clown suit or dress like a tree or something. Then they wont be able to identify us as food or whatever.

So ye, simple defense against zombies. Wear Clown Suits.

ScumLord

The_B_Man wrote: »

I was thinking about this the other day.
How do zombies identify healthy people? Is it movement or some infra-red/Utra-Violet means? Or is it that healthy humans would walk around normal?

I don't think zombies would be all that effective at identifying living from dead and might just attack anything that moved or made sound. After a few days their senses are going to be failing. If they did attack another zombie they would eventually be able to tell it's infected and move on maybe because it didn't taste right of the disease itself being repulsive to other infected.

Even with that level of detection it will keep the zombie horde moving with each zombie chasing the one in front of it. It's more like a tsunami effect than targeted attacks.