A closer analogy would be the filthy hippy I used to live with. She had no clue when other people had failed to launder their clothes. None.
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They could go the route that they go into hibernation state, and eat each other, but in that case it means that the real humans will only have to last a couple of years to outlive the zombies, and if the author doesn’t want to do this for story I think it’s fair enough. Also, of course, they are a biological impossibility to begin with, how much worse is it with one more thing.
So why not just go with magic virus? It is equally impossible that humans suddenly acquire the means to get energy from leaves or from photosynthesis biologically. And they are way too stupid to catch animals.
I love the Walking Dead series but came across this board while looking up some questions I had about the zombies and the science behind their reanimation.
While the survivors are in the CDC the director shows a video of a brain scan of a video of a woman being reanimated. His point being that only the brain stem is active along with very limited brain activity elsewhere. But in the series, the writers also say the zombies smell, see, and hear you. I wondered how they did this without those areas of their brains being active?
I also wondered about the recent episode in which two of the survivors cut open a walker to find a woodchuck inside his stomach. If the walkers’ digestive system worked, you would think it would require for other internal organs to be working as well. If they simply swallowed their food without digesting it, you would think eventually their stomachs would explode and they would be oozing human remains where ever they walked. (I pictured the movie “Seven” with the spaghettios)
I was also curious as to why the walkers do not eat each other. I understand they will not eat dead flesh but at what point do they quit eating a victim and decide they are dead. The director at the CDC also said some victims reanimate after as little as four minutes. Would this make it possible to change while you were being eaten? Would the walkers simply just stop eating you and welcome you to the gang?
My last curiosity about the show’s science concerns the walkers’ rotting flesh. Their bodies are still dead and continue to decay as seen in the impressive costumes and makeup. So why are their bodies not subject to the same decomposition as their non-walking counterparts. Death tends to make our bodies pretty unusable but they still have decent muscle control.
I still love watching the series but I think “28 Days Later” did a better job by explaining the science. Their flesh eating crazies were more believable as rabies on steroids than the actually reanimating the dead. It’s a tricky idea and by delving into the science, the show’s writers contradicted themselves more than they explained anything.
Heck, I was curious why, in the most recent episode:
…it’s such a big deal to sneak past a bunch of zombies wandering around a parking lot. Why not quietly look for an abandoned vehicle (of which there are dozens in the area) that still has keys it in and just drive back and forth really fast, running the zombies over? For that matter, there were two guys, so when you find the first working car, one guy takes it and yells for attention, then drives away at running speed after encouraging all the zombie to chase him, while the second guy looks for another working vehicle. When he finds one, he honks the horn to signal the first guy, who turns around and starts mowing down zombies for as long as his car is drivable, and thus the two guys alternate zombie-crushing and car-searching until all the zobies are roadkill (or road-re-kill, as it were). I mean, seriously, as a battering-ram / bone-crusher, a working car is hard to beat. Picture one guy driving with fifty zombies chasing him, and the second guy following, running over the zombies from behind. Then then both hit the gas, get a few hundred yards ahead of the zombies, which gives them enough time to do three-point turns, and run then over some more. Rinse, repeat, until a hundred zombies are reduced to road-jam.
It bugs me when people overlook the obvious in a survival situation.
ok why give the amount of time they have had have they not made any traps or walking around gear in the city take one suv outfit tires with spinning blades and drive it might not kill them but with out legs they become much easier targets to get around think shark cage on wheels with barbs. go to find a backyard pool empty saround pool with oil coated plastic trap live bunny or other small animal in cage on remote control device use or just dangle it above the pool add a sound and watch them fall in pick off from a safe caged room that they cant open place wood chipper at bottom of a water side bunny just out of reach add oil to side they get to top reach for bunny down they go into wood chipper plus when it run out of gas you long gone and have deposed of any number of zombies (sad for the bunny though) .
such traps could be placed near you hid out to distract the zombie hoards will you hide or near building you need to loot build trap put on a truck drop in street while they are busy trying to get to the bunny and getting stuck you empty out the store into another truck get in trigger a door to close zombies in trap drive away with them to a ready made fire put whole trap in fire done trap ready for next time repeat.
In another story, they also note that this black sludge is lethal to dogs.
[spoiler]One of the interviewees is a dog handler, and he discusses some of the tactics and suggestions that swirled around the use of dogs by the surviving human population when fighting Zack.
He mentions with disgust the idea of “fragmutts” - dogs fitted with explosives intended to be sent into battle and then detonated by a handler once the dog is surrounded by a horde of zombies.
Additionally, he notes a strategy adopted in urban combat after a dog appeared to invent it by himself: when his human handlers were deciding how best to clear a tall building of zombies, a dog climbed onto the roof of a nearby building and began barking. The zombies in the first building were attracted by the sound of the dog and walked right off the roof and out the windows in an attempt to pursue it, plummeting to their destruction below.[/spoiler]
For some reason I don’t enjoy 28 days later Zs because they’re not as creepy, and as such don’t scare me as much.
28ds Zs are basically berserkers on Angel Dust, very dangerous but easy to kill.
I don’t like entirely eschewing any attempt to explain what’s going on with zombies, but it generally opens up problems. In Walking Dead, the CDC scene was neat, but without even going through all the higher brain functions the writers would want the zombies to display, it seemed to paint them in a corner immediately, because I know they want any damage to the brain to take out a zombie. That’s what the audience expects and wants. But if only the brain stem is actually active, then a lot of head shots will be totally ineffective.