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PalezQkkeli 06-03-2010 03:50 AM

How do zombies know if you're another zombie or a human? I mean if you'd rub yourself with zombieblood, act like a zombie and not agitate the zombies while walking among them, would it be possible to survive even one wave?

Nate 06-03-2010 05:52 AM

If Shaun of the Dead can count as zombiecanon, then the answer is 'Yes'.

STM 06-03-2010 09:57 AM

apparently no, and if you think about it the reason behind it is logical and scientific in reasoning...A zombie is infected with the virus solanum and a virus only targets living cells, that's firstly why zombies don't attack or consume their own kind. Secondly and not that relevant is that a virus can only be transmitted between interspecies or similar species (e.g. the H1N1 mutation of swine flu that became contractable to humans.)

a zombie therefore, would probably not rely on it's eyes and other senses to detect whether or not one is infected, a virus can make the distinction between an uninfected cell without using a sense that we humans rely on (6th sense?) if a virus reanimates a body it probably would have the ability to only attack humans uninfected.

Mac Sirloin 06-04-2010 08:46 AM

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apparently no, and if you think about it the reason behind it is logical and scientific in reasoning...A zombie is infected with the virus solanum and a virus only targets living cells, that's firstly why zombies don't attack or consume their own kind. Secondly and not that relevant is that a virus can only be transmitted between interspecies or similar species (e.g. the H1N1 mutation of swine flu that became contractable to humans.)

a zombie therefore, would probably not rely on it's eyes and other senses to detect whether or not one is infected, a virus can make the distinction between an uninfected cell without using a sense that we humans rely on (6th sense?) if a virus reanimates a body it probably would have the ability to only attack humans uninfected.

Here's a better question: Would Christian zombies and Muslim Zombies both go to Zombie heaven?

Wings of Fire 06-04-2010 08:48 AM

Would fourty zombie virgins really be worth it?

Bullet Magnet 06-04-2010 09:22 AM

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a virus can make the distinction between an uninfected cell without using a sense that we humans rely on (6th sense?)

Can it though? It wouldn't make any difference. The real detection is whether or not the cell has the proteins on its membrane that the virus can interact with, and that's no more a sense than adjacent puzzle pieces.

Dixanadu 06-04-2010 02:23 PM

If zombies DID attack, I'd like them to be how they were in the old movies; slow and stumbly.

Makes you wonder how so many people die to slow moving people, maybe because in their respective universes they didn't know what a zombie was. I think people would know best to stay away.

I'd find it fun as long as I didn't find myself surrounded.

Wings of Fire 06-04-2010 02:33 PM

Man, slow stumbly zombies are far more of a refined sense of horror than these shitty running ones.

Zombies do not stop, they are a creeping horror they do not need to run to get to you because they will eventually get you. That's what makes it iconic becuase IT REFLECTS DEATH ITSELF

MA 06-05-2010 02:49 AM

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Man, slow stumbly zombies are far more of a refined sense of horror than these shitty running ones.

Zombies do not stop, they are a creeping horror they do not need to run to get to you because they will eventually get you. That's what makes it iconic becuase IT REFLECTS DEATH ITSELF

thisthisthisthis

the original Day Of The Dead is a good zombie film. dated, but good. that's how i'd imagine zombies. not that i've ever imagined zombies. just, you know, if i ever did.

shut up.

STM 06-05-2010 11:17 AM

Yeh, I wouldn't mind slow zombies but speedy modern dawn of the dead zombies would be scary shit! Or 28 days!

THE ALMIGHTY RAISEN 06-07-2010 01:46 PM

If it was slow walking zombies i would just continue with my everyday life and push one over if it gets too close to me.

But if it was fast zombies i would probly just shoot myslef, its better than being eaten to death although it would make a pretty lame movie if they made one of it

OANST 06-07-2010 01:55 PM

I'd watch it.

Dixanadu 06-07-2010 02:18 PM

All zombie films released in the Noughties are fucking lame anyway.

shaman 06-07-2010 02:20 PM

Zombie films are shit. They have been done to death Undeath I know it sound juvenile. But i have reson to believe that a film is comparable to a zombie film, i find it hard to even consider watching it.

OANST 06-07-2010 02:23 PM

Your spelling is atrocious tonight.

shaman 06-07-2010 02:28 PM

I will hurt you.

Dixanadu 06-07-2010 06:04 PM

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Your spelling is atrocious tonight.

Meltdown imminent.

Monster boils and brutal eyebrows.

Bullet Magnet 06-08-2010 03:45 AM

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If it was slow walking zombies i would just continue with my everyday life and push one over if it gets too close to me.

Which one would you push? The one to your left, to your right, behind you, or perhaps the one chowing down on your leg? Maybe it would be the family member you kept close to you deliberately, despite the fact you had to bind and gag her for your own protection.

STM 06-08-2010 07:32 AM

ah yes sounds like my summer that last bit. Joke. I have no sister.

On another note, I think I really good zombie has yet to come to fruition besides 28 series, resident evil and erm dawn of the dead

MA 06-08-2010 09:12 AM

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Which one would you push? The one to your left, to your right, behind you, or perhaps the one chowing down on your leg? Maybe it would be the family member you kept close to you deliberately, despite the fact you had to bind and gag her for your own protection.

you know this won't happen, right?

STM 06-09-2010 09:28 AM

shhh, let him dream! And anywho, if it doesn't happen by May 2011 or December 2012, it ain't gonna happen in our lifetime!

Josh 06-09-2010 10:45 AM

Thats what you think MA. When the Zombie waves come, i'll be in my fortess while you are being eaten on your farm. Oh, how the other survivors and I shall laugh at your blindness...

Grieva 06-09-2010 10:51 AM

Thats what you think, Josh. While you and your survivors are being eaten alive in your fortress (they shouldn't have put you in charge of closing the door), I'll be laughing from my submarine lair!

Josh 06-09-2010 10:53 AM

Aqua Zombies.

OANST 06-09-2010 10:53 AM

That's what you think, Grieva. While you and your survivors are being eaten alive by zombie sharks (they have insanely strong jaws capable of opening subs), I'll be laughing from Cloud City, having drinks with Lando!

Grieva 06-09-2010 11:01 AM

Clearly not aware of....

http://jaysolomon.files.wordpress.co...aser_shark.jpg

Josh 06-09-2010 11:02 AM

Thats what you think, OANST. When those crows with a taste for human flesh from the third Resident Evil film show up, I'll be laughing with my Zombie buddies as we take over the world and nom on tasty humanfolk!

OANST 06-09-2010 11:22 AM

That's what you think, Josh. When The Flying Zombie Brigade (people who were genetically modified by the bite of the crow zombies) wreak havoc on the inferior walking zombies, I'll be laughing while gnawing contentedly on your skull.

MeechMunchie 06-09-2010 12:12 PM

That's what you think, OANST. While searching for a cure in the jungles of Africa I'll be bitten by a zombie tiger, and my race of Super Zombie Catmen will catch your bird-zombies.

OANST 06-09-2010 12:53 PM

That's what you think, MeechMunchie. While searching for new genetic material in the Sino region, my Flying Zombie Brigade merged with a Charizard. I'll be laughing as we eat tacos and defecate fire, razing your jungle to the ground.