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7 Scientific Reasons a Zombie Outbreak Would Fail (Quickly)
Cracked.com ^ | Aug 17, 2010 | David Dietle

Posted on 08/17/2010 7:11:55 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows

Let's pretend for a moment that zombies are real (as if half of you weren't already daydreaming about that very thing). Have you noticed how most zombie movies take place only after the apocalypse is in full-swing? By the time we join our survivors, the military and government are already wiped out, and none of the streets are safe.

There's a reason the movie starts there, and not earlier. It's because the early part, where we go from one zombie to millions, doesn't make any sense. If you let the creeping buzzkill of logic into the zombie party, you realize the zombies would all be re-dead long before you even got a chance to fire up that chainsaw motorcycle you've been working on. Why?

[WARNING: Strong language!]

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TOPICS: Humor; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: napl; zombie; zombies
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To: Slings and Arrows

Damnit. I was hoping one day to team up with Alice and do some "Zombie hunting".

21 posted on 08/17/2010 8:18:29 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.")
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To: Slings and Arrows

RE: Your Brains (a fun song about (DU?)zombies)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjcH2UmK1uo&feature=related


22 posted on 08/17/2010 8:19:51 PM PDT by woodchukwood ("The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency." -E. McCarthy)
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To: Proud_USA_Republican

Is there a new “Alice” movie coming out this year?


23 posted on 08/17/2010 8:24:10 PM PDT by tbw2 (Freeper sci-fi - "Sirat: Through the Fires of Hell" - on amazon.com)
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I have a dream where a mutant virus gets loose that turns a bunch of people into zombie clowns. I’ll take refuge in a mall that has a fully functioning food court. Then I’ll get up on the roof armed with a sniper rifle, gyros, lemon juliuses and Copenhagen. Naturally I’d kill the last zombie clown before college football season kicked off. MLK had a better dream but I’d like to think this one makes the Top 10.


24 posted on 08/17/2010 8:25:12 PM PDT by Hayride
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To: Slings and Arrows

Does this mean I can’t sell future stock options for my Soylent Green “zombie catchers”?

Man has gotta make a buck or two, I got 6 grandchildren to feed!


25 posted on 08/17/2010 8:27:12 PM PDT by Eye of Unk ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" G.Orwell)
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To: tbw2

Yup.


26 posted on 08/17/2010 8:31:51 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

If the premise in Stephen King’s “Cell” were to work, zombies would outnumber non-zombies in no time.


27 posted on 08/17/2010 8:35:19 PM PDT by twhitak
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To: tbw2

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/residentevilafterlife/

Out in a month. Trailer looks great in full HD. The movie was filmed with the same 3D camera technology that Avatar was filmed with. I’ll pay to see it in theaters. Should be fun to watch.


28 posted on 08/17/2010 8:39:16 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.")
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To: Slings and Arrows

29 posted on 08/17/2010 8:43:08 PM PDT by GregoTX
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To: reagan_fanatic

¨Kill the brain and you kill the ghoul.¨


30 posted on 08/17/2010 9:10:27 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Slings and Arrows
From the article:


31 posted on 08/18/2010 3:37:23 AM PDT by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality Now: Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: Slings and Arrows; RandallFlagg

**Sob*** They’re right. There’s no chance for WWZ. I’m selling my zombie kit to the first sucker who comes along.

Cracked used to be a magazine the last I heard. Thanks for the ping. It’s nice to be reacquainted with an old friend.


32 posted on 08/18/2010 5:08:08 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: Hayride

Every few months or so I have a zombie dream. Always different in details but always with a sea of zombies attacking me and a small group. We are safe (kind of) on our side of an impassible region but there is a bridge or a staircase where they keep coming and coming 3 or so side by side. We have a barrel full of guns and we shoot until the gun gets hot and grab another. Over and over and over. But they keep coming. After a half hour or so the dream just ends.


33 posted on 08/18/2010 5:55:11 AM PDT by RadiationRomeo (Step into my mind and glimpse the madness that is me)
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To: RadiationRomeo

And in my zombie dreams I’m not scared, just manic and frustrated. I blow them up with shotguns but they keep coming! SOBs. I hate zombies.


34 posted on 08/18/2010 5:56:56 AM PDT by RadiationRomeo (Step into my mind and glimpse the madness that is me)
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To: RadiationRomeo

Go play some L4D, that will help the dreams :)


35 posted on 08/18/2010 5:57:34 AM PDT by downwdims (It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority)
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To: Slings and Arrows

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a6YdNmK77k


36 posted on 08/18/2010 6:01:15 AM PDT by Redcloak (What's your zombie plan?)
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To: downwdims

Googled L4D. Sounds like a fun video game. But I think that will cause more zombie dreams except instead of dozens of helpers I will be limited to 4, and the zombies will make it across the bridge!


37 posted on 08/18/2010 6:04:53 AM PDT by RadiationRomeo (Step into my mind and glimpse the madness that is me)
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To: RadiationRomeo

Yea it’s a really fun game. Can be VERY intense. Especially it’s sequel, they really ratcheted it up in that one.

Another upside is that it uses a 7 yr old engine so most computers can play it!


38 posted on 08/18/2010 6:23:35 AM PDT by downwdims (It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority)
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To: TheOldLady

You’re welcome, and try ebay.


39 posted on 08/18/2010 7:45:03 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: paulycy

Very observant of you.


40 posted on 08/18/2010 7:49:46 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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