You may be worried about the apocalypse. If you’re a regular at this site, you’re probably quite familiar with it. On a deep personal level, you may even be scared about it, but dissuade yourself often that such a thing could never happen. Chalk that up to being human and being optimistic. When the apocalypse […]
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Rabies, Flu, Ebola: National Geographic Investigates Zombies
Oct
04
2011
Zombies, as well as the cinema fanbases, are split into two kingdoms: The George Romero Zombie and the Danny Boyle Zombie. The Romero Zombie is the reanimated, once alive and now dead walking corpse. The Boyle Zombie is the rage infected, fully alive, maddened and contagious, murderous human being. While this website may discuss cinema […]
Toxoplasma Parasite: Hideous bug lives inside, tries to kill you.
Jan
14
2010
Parasites, virii, bacteria, evil alien brain worms. These things can all potentially live inside you and destroy you from the inside out. I’ve written about Toxoplasma before. It’s a parasite that decreases fear in rats, causing them to be eaten by cats. Pregnant women must avoid cats and undercooked meat, as Toxoplasmosis can cause sexual […]
Latest Pentagon Project: Zombie Pigs
Dec
29
2009
Here’s some science of the new decade for you: how about draining pigs of their blood, making them clinically dead, and then bringing them back to life? Naturally, this is a military project, and those always end well. The theory goes, if you drain a pig (which has a physiology similar to humans) of blood […]
Class 3 Outbreak: Interactive Zombie Attack Simulator
Dec
09
2009
Class 3 Outbreak is a Flash and Google Maps based zombie apocalypse simulator produced by Binary Space. It’s about damn time someone made something like this. Scientists take note: such a tool will be useful in analyzing statistics such as population, area, civil defense and zombie offensive structure. Variables such as police, citizens, zombies, speed […]
Zombie Mathematical Model: Slim Chances for Survival
Aug
19
2009
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 […]
Undead or Infected Zombies?
Aug
12
2009
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 […]
Happy Halloween! Zombie walks, nerve gas blood and more!
Oct
31
2008
If you’ve survived last night, that must mean either A) you don’t live in Flint or Detroit or B) they’re just not burning buildings like they used to anymore. Zombie Walk Devil’s Night in Grand Rapids Michigan was a bit more placid than usual. Instead of burning churches like they ususally do, the teeming masses […]
Reanimating Dead Hearts
Oct
08
2008
So the soviet reanimated animal research continues. What do you get with one part cellular cleaning agent, one dead heart, and a couple of mad scientists? That’s right: reanimated hearts. Perhaps the efforts of earlier commie scientists are still being perfected. Scientists in Minnesota have been injecting dead rat hearts with a cleaning solution, then […]
Soviet Reanimated Dog Head: Film Revisited
Feb
11
2008
Reanimated corpse! Live on film! I touched a nerve with my earlier post about reanimated dogs heads. This is a followup to that post, as well as an addendum to my article about types of zombies. This would fall under the scientifically reanimated corpse. In the 40’s, the Soviets were working on experiments involving reanimating […]
