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8/11/2015 7:13:08 AM
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Why A Zombie Apocalypse is Virtually Impossible
The concept of a Zombie Apocalypse has been around for a long time. The U.S. government has a protocol for one, its been in many horror films, and many horror games. Well I'm here to tell you why that is all impossible.
So, lets start off with a fictitious scenario
90% of the world is infected with a dangerous disease that cause symptoms similar to our zombie stereotype
10% of the world is not infected and are forced to survive in cities, forests, and anywhere they can go to hide from the disease
On day 1 of the outbreak, assuming it is an airborne and quite common disease, roughly 10% of the world would be infected. These would be people with low immune systems. The disease would grasp your immune system and pretty much tuck you in to a corner of your mind where you just keep it breathing and stuff. The 90% of "survivors" would be living off of rations, airways and waterways would shut down, and all transportation would be cut off to not spread the disease. The rations would only last a few days until survivors would be pitted at each other for survival. But wait, zombies would have to eat to. Either they eat humans, other zombies or normal food. The disease would first target humans, then other zombies, and never consider normal food. Their numbers would drop immensely in places where there are dense populations, as they infect humans, they are shot, they infect more. Eventually there will be no humans, so now zombies would have to eat each other. Eventually the few zombies left in a matter of 2 weeks would die of starvation. The apocalypse is over in 14 days, not long enough for them to mutate in to giant hulking beasts or spit acid. Survivors would return to cities and everything would be over with a much smaller human population.
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14 RepliesZombies are dead they don't [i]have[/i] to eat, they just do.
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It can still happen.
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Actually if rabies had a fast incubation rate it could potentially cause a sort of zombie apocalypse. Not undead zombies, but still.
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4 RepliesIn like 2000 something there was a disease that could turn people into zombies but then they inialated it.
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nuh uh i got one doing the daily heroic once
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Plausible theory to add to the virtually infinite amount of scenarios
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You are forgetting one thing: genre blindness is an assumed given within this genre. If a zombie apocalypse happened, we would have to assume that our world never had Romero, Richard Matheson, or Tom Savini. It is a world where zombie films and books never existed. Now in that scenario, I could see a zombie apocalypse *potentially* succeeding. People would be hesitant about killing their infected loved-ones, surrendering over the bodies of the deceased for irreverent incineration, and even accepting the notion that the infected are in fact the reanimated dead. For crying out loud, we have liberals complaining about shooting a lion and conservatives complaining about abortion, you really think the American populace would be willing to put bullets in the heads of infected little kids shambling aimlessly down the street? Or willing to condone the National Guard firing upon "American citizens" (the infected)? Our own inability to handle the issue would be our downfall. I could see it unfolding much in the same way as the original Dawn of the Dead.
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Plus, imagine the cars, knives, sidearms, and shotguns we have just from the civilian population. The world's militaries have enough firepower for this kind of thing. People would definitely turn pn each other, but if we cooperate and work together, we can survive for a long time. If we survive long enough, we will win because eventually time will kill the zombies. With the insects and worms and parasites, they'll be too rotten to be a threat in about 30 to 40 years, maybe even less. I'm not saying we are guaranteed to win, just that things wouldn't be completely hopeless.
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It may be virtually impossible, but is it physically impossible?
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There are tons of articles all over the place that show a zombie apocalypse is impossible. The only way for anything like that to be remotely possible would be similar to 28 days later. Although they aren't zombies, they are infected with a virus that makes them rage and beat the shit out of anything that moves. I suppose if Cordyceps advanced to humans but that isn't a fungus that makes the ants or other insects it infects eat other insects, It just forces it to higher ground so it can sprout and spread it's seed. All you would get would be infected humans climbing up tall buildings.
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TL;DR
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>expecting Bel Air >Disappointed
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4 RepliesThe only realistic way for a zombie apocalypse to happen would probably be closest to the video game titled, "The Last of Us" as diseases and fungi moving cross species are a very real issue, and if one such as cordyceps were to move from insects to humans, we would have very little resistance to the effects, and thus, we'd probably all die.
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It depends on what kind of zombie you are talking about. If you are talking about TWD or WWZ the book style zombies, where the infected can take hours or even days to turn, and the reanimated host is only barely kept alive by the virus by having the host eat any form of flesh it can get its hands on, then it probably wouldn't work. Sure in WWZ the book, Brooks puts together a very convincing argument on how a slow shuffling zombie outbreak could almost destroy the world, but he even states in the book that you can walk faster than zombies. It just isn't realistic. However, if you are talking about WWZ the movie style zombies, were the infected turn in less than 30 seconds, and the virus keeps the host fully alive and at optimal function, than yes, that could probably absolutely work like it did in the movies. The host body appeared to be flooded with adrenaline when healthy hosts were around, and then put into an almost hibernation like state. This seems to be a more realistic zombie outbreak, and could probably spell devastation for a country, even the world if an infected individual managed to get on a plane or boat and hide until they were turned
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9 RepliesOne word why a zombie apocalypse can't happen: Insects.
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Your argument is flawed. 1) Zombies may not need to eat. They are dead for all intents and purposes. Even if they do, their victims provide the food. 2) There wouldn't be as much resistance as you think. It's a sad fact, but with the number of legitimate gun owners, there aren't many crimes stopped by them. Sure there are the odd story or two (which will likely be pulled out to refute this) but not anything statistically significant. On top of that, people would be shooting loved ones, making this even harder. 3) It would be hard to contain. Pretty much every story hinges on a latency period where people are infected, but travel via air and road to express frank symptoms in clean areas. 4) The biggest killer isn't the zombies themselves, but the breakdown of social services. It's when stores close, the electricity goes out and roads block that the true havok starts.
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1 ReplyWas gonna argue [spoiler]but saw some valid points[/spoiler]
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8 RepliesMuted
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74 RepliesZombies don't need food to survive, just like they don't need to breathe. Zombies have no sense of actually hunger. The disease in their brain only craves flesh. Doesn't mean it needs it to survive
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2 RepliesOr..... It's science fiction.
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3 RepliesToo many people in the US own guns for it to spread to far
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7 Replies[u] [/u]
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It would be pretty cool though
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Good thread.
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4 RepliesEdited by Catis Meowsoul: 8/11/2015 4:10:03 PMTrue, however you are all forgeting about the increasing chances of a cat-pocalypse. [spoiler]they are coming for you[/spoiler]
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1 ReplyJet fuel can't melt zombie flesh.
