In Is the stench of massed zombies toxic? our all-too-confident seer proclaims:
yet we all know with respect to Imaginary Numbers that “Imaginary Numbers are not ‘imaginary’, they really exist, and you may need to use them one day.” therefore I submit that maybe we should be prepared, just in case.
Well, according to wikipedia, imaginary numbers have real applications.
I mean, one can entertain the notion of a zombie scenario for epidemiology or military purposes, but that doesn’t require the assumption that there’s any evidence they exist in reality.
Edit: those applications may be as useful as angels doing the running man on the head of a pin by the way.
So you’re saying that imaginary zombies can be controlled by mathemagicians?
I’d like to announce the formation of my new band…
PUTRESCINE
We’ll be bigger than Jesus!! 
It’s more complex than that.
(Yes. I make that sad joke in every discussion about “imaginary” things. Just like I make the same lame “maybe, maybe not” joke in every discussion about quantum uncertainty. I’m predictable.)
If zombies don’t breathe, how do they moan?
You just pay them an extra $20!
HA! :eek:
but only when observed?
Yeah, well by band’s going to be called Solve for Zed.
Or say BRAAAINZZZZ… 
Back in the day, we medical students were required to do a clinical rotation through Pathology, which included whole human remains, most often they outnumbered us (the M/S’s) by 10 to 1, as I trained in one of the world largest training hospitals for the poor anywhere on Earth, right in LA. They made all sorts of noises, which scared the piss outta the first years, they farted, defecated, pissed. leaked all kinds of fluids and so on. Once I was called to the path Lab with a crash cart, since this newbie was CERTAIN this girl was alive. And to our shock and delight, she REALLY WAS! her vitals were so low as to be nearly undetectable in a nosy E/D, bu t in the dead quite “no pun” morgue, I heard a very very faint heartbeat. The girl had taken an overdose of powerful sleepers, in the barbiturate class, so it was no surprize that her toe got tagged. But she was coming out of her self induced coma then, can one imagine waking in a COFFIN? It would’ve happened, beyond all doubt, and she’d scream and yell, not to be heard over the massive crowd of mourners already at the hospital. Maybe someone would’ve heard her at the funeral home, maybe not.
The one clear thing was that this young lady didn’t want to die that day, and as I rolled her into the ICU I knew I’d never be anything but a doctor. True, I went onto to get a PhD in Psych, in part because of her, then a MA in Public Health, with a vain and naive hope I could help change the system from within. Neither worked out as I’d hoped, and now, shrunken and disabled with MS, I reserve my limited strength for personal battles, many which come my way without provocation, just trying to stay as healthy as I be, since I have an adult parent 85 years old, who is my responsibility, as the rest of my family are dead now, or just don’t care. She’s regressed now to a ten year old on her bad days. O Thank Dog I have a wonderful therapist only a ten min walk from my home. She’s my rock, since my friends all have disappeared since my MS diagnosis, and my Mom’s illness.
Zombies are quite real, only that they still have normal human flesh and function. It’s all a matter f degree isn’t it? When my Mom first came home from the nursing home, I thought she WAS the “walking dead”, only it turned out she was getting anti-psychotic drugs and benzodiazapines, for no medical reason. I read her chart, being a doc gives me some 'entre. I tapered her off the drugs the day she was home, and now she’s here, present and accounted for, a pain in the ass most of the time, but what 85 year old, two pack a day smoker ISN’T!! But she certainly could be classified as a “zombie” while on the drugs.
Oo err, thanks for your commentary. Sorry to hear about the whole friends abandoning you. It’s rather good you can stay connected with the internet though :).
There’s a class for that? Oh… nevermind. 
The real question was asked By Craig Ferguson on his talk show. “Since zombies eat human flesh and brains… do zombies poop”?
I’d say no, because I don’t believe they digest what they eat. The Walking Dead zombies have rudimentary nervous system activity, so the hunger impulse can get through, but eating won’t sustain them.
So what happens to all the matter they consume, then? Do their stomachs just bloat bigger and bigger until they burst?
More importantly, if they don’t respire, how do their cells replicate?
I think that through history mankind has made up things to try to explain things they have seen. I watched a little movie clip from Harvards religion 101 about a culture that used some sort of trance to make the people dance a horse ceremony. While in the trance they did not have a histimine reaction to the burning fire so they did not get burnt when walking in it. They also didn’t bleed when they were poked with pierced sticks of some sort. I guess the body can pull blood out of the extremeties sort of like what happens in Reynards disease so there is no bleeding. According to the narrator, the body starts going into rigamortice even though they aren’t dead because of this decreased bloodflow. They had to pry the mans hands off the horse stick he was riding. I did quite a bit of research to see what was the possible causes. If you want me to Cite, you will have to apply to take the Harvard online course to find the evidence because I don’t know where the video came from. It only costs about nine hundred bucks. Are these tranced people where the Zombie’s conception started from? Probably, I’m sure this was not the only culture to have this knowledge. Even though these people felt no pain and did not bleed they still died during the battle with the Christians during the crusades. I hate to rationalize the subject because it takes the fun out of the mysteries.
They don’t; that’s why zombies are in a state of decay.
Powers &8^]
But cell replication is necessary for vital functions like moving. Anaerobic respiration could probably sustain a human for a couple of minutes.