Zombie Apocalypse ......... it's true ...... some people believe

Pwindedd

_Redzer_ wrote: »

Have you not seen The Walking Dead?

You have to destroy their brain, stupid!

Maybe I'm thinking of vampires, or is that the heart thing?

Okay recap, you have to destroy the brain, cut off the head and rip out the heart.

darkpagandeath

Pwindedd wrote: »

Maybe I'm thinking of vampires, or is that the heart thing?

Okay recap, you have to destroy the brain, cut off the head and rip out the heart.

No reverse vampires work differently.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Pwindedd wrote: »

Maybe I'm thinking of vampires, or is that the heart thing?

Okay recap, you have to destroy the brain, cut off the head and rip out the heart.

Best burn them to be safe too. Or is that just white walkers?

_Redzer_

Fúck this apocalypse, it's gonna be far too much work. I'm gonna stay in the pub until they come. And whatever happens, happens, at that point

Vision of Disorder

_Redzer_ wrote: »

Fúck this apocalypse, it's gonna be far too much work. I'm gonna stay in the pub until they come. And whatever happens, happens, at that point

Great plan Simon Pegg. :-)

john the one

I have just made a video on how quickly a bacterial disease can spread worldwide, notice the day counter to the right. Now i know its a simulator but it is quite close to how a disease may in fact spread. The sim is so useful that the US Centers for Disease control invited the creator to HQ to talk about how the game can create public awareness. The video lost some quality as i compressed.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/9/4080666/plague-inc-game-developer-center-for-disease-control-talk A link to the invite article

ScumLord

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Yes there is, No such thing exists.

there are plenty of examples of zombification in the natural world. Especially in the insect kingdom. There's a wasp that can inject a very specific venom into a very specific species of cockroach which turns it into a zombie so that it will allow the wasp to implant it with it's babies and it stays zombified until it's eaten by the baby wasps. Nature has already laid the groundwork, it just has to find a way to make it apply to us. Knowing nature it's probably working around the clock on the problem.

The One Doctor wrote: »

And this is an excuse for spend thousands preparing for a doomsday scenario that has a 0.01% chance of happening?

Your spending thousands on the worst case scenario, if you're able to deal with a zombie apocalypse you should have the skill sets to deal with any number of alternative scenarios.

House of Blaze

ScumLord wrote: »

there are plenty of examples of zombification in the natural world. Especially in the insect kingdom. There's a wasp that can inject a very specific venom into a very specific species of cockroach which turns it into a zombie so that it will allow the wasp to implant it with it's babies and it stays zombified until it's eaten by the baby wasps. Nature has already laid the groundwork, it just has to find a way to make it apply to us. Knowing nature it's probably working around the clock on the problem.

Your spending thousands on the worst case scenario, if you're able to deal with a zombie apocalypse you should have the skill sets to deal with any number of alternative scenarios.

See also the humble toxoplasma gondii parasite.

A parasite found in cat guts that has evolved the ability to suppress the inbuilt fear mechanisms in rats in order to make them more likely to be preyed upon by more cats whereupon they can reproduce to continue the cycle again.

A large percentage of certain human populations are infected also due to exposure to uncooked meats etc.

<shudder>

_Redzer_

ScumLord wrote: »

there are plenty of examples of zombification in the natural world. Especially in the insect kingdom. There's a wasp that can inject a very specific venom into a very specific species of cockroach which turns it into a zombie so that it will allow the wasp to implant it with it's babies and it stays zombified until it's eaten by the baby wasps. Nature has already laid the groundwork, it just has to find a way to make it apply to us. Knowing nature it's probably working around the clock on the problem.

Your spending thousands on the worst case scenario, if you're able to deal with a zombie apocalypse you should have the skill sets to deal with any number of alternative scenarios.

You wouldn't have a hope of dealing with a deadly virus or bacterium, though. Zombies would be a lot easier to deal with and survive than a highly contagious virus -if it's The Walking Dead sort of virus.

If the flu were to mutate and had a near total fatality rate, there's no escaping it unless you head off to a remote area with a sniper to kill anybody who wanders too close, because you couldn't chance them not being infected

I'm really in the mood to watch Contagion now!

WilyCoyote

_Redzer_ wrote: »

Fúck this apocalypse, it's gonna be far too much work. I'm gonna stay in the pub until they come. And whatever happens, happens, at that point

Don't even consider ebola :eek: