S#it just hit the fan. The zombies have come. The infection has spread. They’re neither fast, nor slow, but they do attack and they do kill, and the infection is spreading, and you probably can’t tell the infected from survivors until it’s too close or too late. This is the moment you haven’t been adequately planning for.
Let’s go raid the gun store! No, let’s go hit the military base that just happens to be in my city! Screw it, let’s get out of town. FAIL. There will be no gun store, the military base will shoot anyone within 100 yards, and every road will be blocked. Luckily, the fellows over at Cracked have already thought of why your plan will fail. Here’s a counterpoint.
#5 — The gun store / military base run.
Cracked has it spot on here — you’re not going to be able to run to the gun store when things get bad, and if you can, expect to be met by many other people and the store owners. With that many guns, it won’t just be the infected getting hit. Stock up before hand, and if there are no firearms in your region (or they’re even banning knives), you had better be damned creative, or else be really accurate with your stone throwing. Your best advice is to run and bash in some brains while wearing some biological protective gear.
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SCIENCE: When the zombies attack, it will lead to the collapse of civilization unless dealt with quickly and aggressively.
How long will civilization have in a zombie attack? A city with a population around 500,000 will have between three and eight days before irreversible catastrophe. This report is based on a well researched, though fictionalized outbreak of the reanimation of the dead. While an uprising of the dead is highly improbable, it remains that a highly contagious and infectious zombie cause could have similar results.
The report was written by several Mathematicians in Canada, notably Robert J. Smith?, an Austrailian who probably sang backup for ? and The Mysterians. P. Munz, I. Hudea, J. Imad and R.J. Smith? When zombies attack!: Mathematical modelling of an outbreak of zombie infection (PDF)
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Undead or infected? Horror movie puritanism or scientific reality? Discussion and debate surrounds not which makes a better film, but which is more likely to happen. You can blame science. The zombie outbreak will most likely be the result of some experiment gone wrong, an adaptive virus, or horrible pathogen. Save a giant UFO hiding behind a comet that animates dead bodies instead of trucks and electric knives, many of us will die by actual, angry, infected humans.
Some possible, semi-grounded in science explanaitons, as offered by Cracked.com:
- Brain parasites - i.e. Toxoplasma gondii, or Naegleria fowleri.
- Neurotoxins – (Tetrodotoxin, though this just induces a coma-like, non threatening state).
- Adaptaive and aggressive rabies strain or other neurotropic virus (resulting in aggressive and contagious rabies like symptoms).
- Neurogenesis (recreation and reanimation of brain cells).
- Nanobots (though not a traditional infection, imagine a Terminator like apiocalypse, only with hundreds of thousands of self-replicating, human hating machines).
- Immortal cells - i.e. Helacyton gartleri cancer cells which do not die.
There won’t be reanimated corpses. If you survive the infection, you will be murdering alive, and perhaps conscious humans.
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Filed under: Reanimation · Science · Sickness · Undead
It’s a part of the weltgeist — people dress up like zombies, shamble about and… dance?
Well, they try to dance anyway. Saturday July 25th, approximately 450 to 500 (some liberal estimates put the horde at 1,000) zombies were found congregating in Chicago’s Wicker Park. Many of them were later found to be hipsters, and promptly exterminated. The remainder were allowed, under close supervision, to shamble in an orderly fashion around the neighborhood.
Surprisingly, there was no Chicago police interaction. Passersby on buses, taxis and cars were understandably frightened, but no casualties were reported. Patrons at local restaurants, bars and shops were visibly agitated and confused, although the majority found the situation to be humorous.
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You’ve waited long enough. I’ve perfected them to an absurd degree, and they’ve literally been field-tested to ensure satisfaction. It’s time to pull out your hand-cannons and splatter some fun new targets at the range.
ZOMBIE TARGETS! Buy now!
Whether you shoot paintball, Nerf or live armor piercing incendiary rounds, take these targets to the range for some lively fun and apocalypse prepartion.
The targets come in three flavors so far: Creepy Child Zombie, Fat Guy Zombie and the Hot Chick Zombie. Targets are printed on sturdy paper, feature highlighted target areas, concentric grouping circles and more.
ZOMBIE TARGETS!
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