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say if a zombie apocalypse happened right now how screwed or prepared are you to face it?

The military contains and obliterates the problem with incredible ease.

You need to get into Flood or Necromorph level lolhax to get a Zombie apocalypse to defeat an organized society.

what if its an airborne virus?

 Scorpionov wrote:
what if its an airborne virus?

Then the airborne aspect of it is the actual problem, not the Zombies.

Zombies are a gak way to spread a plague.

And even then; the Spanish Flu (far more insidious because you can't spot it's infectees from a mile away and also air transmissable) failed to wipe out humankind, as did the black death.

And there is a real life Zombie Virus. It's called Rabies.

Zombies as depicted by the media are also a physical impossibility. You would at best get the symptoms of human rabies but with a different pathogen.

Robots aren't anymore likely to kill us off unless our programmers a few decades down the line are blindingly idiotic and leave obvious loopholes for intelligent A.Is to exploit and forget to put in any sort of safety system.

Aliens are a maybe.

Zombies are impossible to exist, thus I wouldn't care a single bit.

Kain wrote:The military contains and obliterates the problem with incredible ease.

You need to get into Flood or Necromorph level lolhax to get a Zombie apocalypse to defeat an organized society.

Sigvatr wrote:Zombies are impossible to exist, thus I wouldn't care a single bit.

in a hypothetical Walking Dead-esque situation, I'm good. Live mostly off the grid on a well, and have plenty of vegetable beds going right now. I grow mostly heirlooms, so the seeds are harvestable for new crops. There are plenty of wild deer around, so meat shouldn't be an issue. Guess the biggest problem would be running out of ammo.

Well, if you want to go that way...

I'd be in a bad position. I myself would be fine - frequent cardio training, good muscular shape, very healthy, trained in self-defense, outdoor survival and small fire arms, persuasive and rational.

On the other hand, I have a little daughter and a wife which is "meh" in apocalypse times as you got someone to watch out for and kids in a Zombie apocalypse is no fun times :(

I'd be fethed. Probably one of the first to turn into a zombie. No decent skills whatsoever to survive such an event, which means, no skills whatsoever in case of an enormous natural disaster.

 Sigvatr wrote:
Zombies are impossible to exist, thus I wouldn't care a single bit.

Zombiesm is basically just a disease that causes muscle growth at the cost of retardation and psychopathy, not much more impossible than some of the real life diseases we know of.

 sing your life wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:
Zombies are impossible to exist, thus I wouldn't care a single bit.

Zombiesm is basically just a disease that causes muscle growth at the cost of retardation and psychopathy, not much more impossible than some of the real life diseases we know of.

There's plenty of scientific explanations why zombies cannot exist, google it

 Sigvatr wrote:

 sing your life wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:
Zombies are impossible to exist, thus I wouldn't care a single bit.

Zombiesm is basically just a disease that causes muscle growth at the cost of retardation and psychopathy, not much more impossible than some of the real life diseases we know of.

There's plenty of scientific explanations why zombies cannot exist, google it

I already explained how a condition similar to being a zombie [it not a real zombie] is perfectly possible

 Scorpionov wrote:
say if a zombie apocalypse happened right now how screwed or prepared are you to face it?

Lets just say, when I saw the title a sudden burst of joy hit me like a wave. Alas this isn't a report of it occurring now.
Come on man, lets do this. Let the Zombie games begin. I've got a shotgun, a rifle, and can steal a four wheel drive, a country boy can survive.


"Zombie killin's my business and business is good."
-Frazzled, on world affairs.


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 Sigvatr wrote:
Zombies are impossible to exist, thus I wouldn't care a single bit.

Rage zombies could indeed exist. Rabies exists now. Rage Zombies are just the XGames version of rabies.

Romero/Walking dead Zombies: Eyyup, sure I'm good with taking them on and surviving. Plenty of ammo, skills and choke points in my area to take on the horde. The only real way infact for it to become a threat is if it was first released not in a country that deals with the zombies in pop culture most of the time, so that they will be overwhelmed by the cases by the time a culture with zombies in it would respond. But then again....

Weaponized Rabies: Not so much on this end, the virus moves to fast and incubation to long to stop it. Sure all you have to do it wait a few months/years till the infected die off, but at the same time your going to be dealing with mad men/women, both human and other wise, in order to survive and then afterwards try to rebuild a life.

 Sigvatr wrote:

 sing your life wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:
Zombies are impossible to exist, thus I wouldn't care a single bit.

Zombiesm is basically just a disease that causes muscle growth at the cost of retardation and psychopathy, not much more impossible than some of the real life diseases we know of.

There's plenty of scientific explanations why zombies cannot exist, google it

Actually, if a couple areas of the brain are suppressed/stimulated you would get people acting almost like zombies. Impaired judgement, ravenous hunger, and overproduction of adrenalin would result in people walking around in a mindless state blindly attacking and trying to eat anything that moved.

But they wouldn't be as dangerous as a "real" zombie.

All these things could be achieved by an engineered virus. Likely an altered form of Rabies.

You are correct in saying a zombie outbreak is impossible, naturally speaking. But with evil human intervention it is possible.

 Sigvatr wrote:

 sing your life wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:
Zombies are impossible to exist, thus I wouldn't care a single bit.

Zombiesm is basically just a disease that causes muscle growth at the cost of retardation and psychopathy, not much more impossible than some of the real life diseases we know of.

There's plenty of scientific explanations why zombies cannot exist, google it

I call bull gak! It's happening now!

The problem with going "fictitious zombie outbreak" is that there are so many other rules to lay out when it comes to these zombies.

Are they slow/fast? Do they starve? Etc.

If it is a zombie thing based off of something close to reality, I imagine all of us will be fine. If it is a movie outbreak, we're probably all screwed despite our guns and survivalist boners.

I think a lot depends on the kind of zombies they are and the virus itself. We could be talking slow moving brain eaters or sprinting rage zombies, it could be instant turning into a zombie, airborne, slow acting. So theres a lot of factors.

I've always thought that if it did happen, my best chances are being alone, but you can't just do that, you have to protect your family. So, getting away from populated areas is the next best thing.

Me? I'm relatively out of shape and have little to no survival skills. So I'm probably dead. Especially because I have a wife who certainly couldn't survive such an event.

On a note of "real life zombies" John Ringo, a sci-fi author, has a series that he's come out with in the last year or two. First book is Under a Graveyard Sky. Seems like a relatively reasonable way for a zombie-like apocalypse to occur.

 kronk wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:

 sing your life wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:
Zombies are impossible to exist, thus I wouldn't care a single bit.

Zombiesm is basically just a disease that causes muscle growth at the cost of retardation and psychopathy, not much more impossible than some of the real life diseases we know of.

There's plenty of scientific explanations why zombies cannot exist, google it

I call bull gak! It's happening now!

I'm dead. Lazy and no survival skills. The best weapons I've got are my low power airsoft rifle and my kitchen knives.

That being said. I live in the country. And there are ALOT of armed Rednecks around me. So I'd certainly have help.

Also, Kronk, I'm proud not to own a smart phone. I am shamed that I can't afford anything that expensive. (I.E Laptop computer)

Should be ok short term if I am at home /work

18th century house with a armoury, few people and very thick walls plus I have my own swords and other blades and have some training in their use.

Its a running joke with firends that my house is where they are heading in the event of Zombie outbreak.

That being said if its Res Evil film style there are too many nasty variants to live long..........

It's not the zombies you need to worry about, it's the fething human remnant that you need to look out for.

Seriously, you see a human - kill it.

Most zombie outbreaks are predicated on a society being unaware of them. Therefore, as a knowing and aware society, we would be immune to an apocalypse scenario from zombies. What would destroy us must be a paradigm shift, something that violates all of our rules and preparation. Not staying dead is not especially terrifying to our societies.

 Mr. Burning wrote:
It's not the zombies you need to worry about, it's the fething human remnant that you need to look out for.

Unless you are the nasty human remnant

 Mr Morden wrote:

 Mr. Burning wrote:
It's not the zombies you need to worry about, it's the fething human remnant that you need to look out for.

Unless you are the nasty human remnant

Once I-tablets and lap phones cease working humanity is going to get crazy. I'll take care of my own - And Gianna Michaels - everyone else is fair game.

The hardest part will be keeping the silly grin off my face.

I'd probably kill myself so I don't end up joining the zombi hordes.

Surely by killing yourself you'd join the horde anyway?

Zombies are anonymous, Zombies are legion.

I live in Canada so...



I might not have a gun, but I can go plenty medieval on them with my broadsword.

Make a crappy wooden coffin, seal myself inside, set it on fire, shoot myself. I get out quick and my body isn't infectable afterwards.