Imponderables: Saw Hell In A Dream

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MSA

Friday, March 20, 2009 12:29 AM

ok weird ponder... which would you prefer alien invasion or zombie uprising??

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It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

ZEEK

Friday, March 20, 2009 12:40 AM

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Originally posted by MsA:
ok weird ponder... which would you prefer alien invasion or zombie uprising??

Well zombies cause we'd win. Aliens would take over for sure, but it'd be cooler if aliens existed.

MSA

Friday, March 20, 2009 1:17 AM

so you're confident in us winning against the zombies huh?

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

SOLARFLARE

Friday, March 20, 2009 11:31 AM

Aliens.

Being chased around by aliens sounds a lot more interesting than being chased around by dead people. At least then we will have confirmed the existence of extra-terrestrial life.

Plus, if there's Zombies, then that means I'll eventually be a Zombie too. (And not just in a three-hour history-class monotone professor zombie way.)

Unless of course they are zombie aliens. That would change everything.

FREELANCERTEX

Friday, March 20, 2009 2:43 PM

zombie aliens...there's a novel concept. i wonder what that would be like.......

NVGHOSTRIDER

Friday, March 20, 2009 3:40 PM

Aliens are far too unpredictable to even consider over zombies. At least the garden variety of zombie is a bit more predictable and can be fought.

I thought of the whole becoming a zombie thing. I think being fitted with a collar that explodes when a person reanimates might be a good idea. Sucks if a person has a heart attack or stroke that might have been survivable though.

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RHYIANAN

Friday, March 20, 2009 3:50 PM

An alternate version of this question:

Would I rather be killed by aliens or become an animated corpse that attacks people for their brains?

I'll take the aliens. When I die, I want to stay dead.

Besides, who knows what the aliens really want or if they are easily defeated once you know that country music causes their brain to explode. It could be a peaceful invasion...most likely not, but there's a possiblity.

I'm a leaf on the wind

ZEEK

Friday, March 20, 2009 4:03 PM

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so you're confident in us winning against the zombies huh?

Yep. Humans rule the world cause we're the most intelligent. Zombies don't win the intelligence war. Space traveling aliens would probably out smart us and then we're hosed. We're not particularly fast, strong, or durable. All we've got is smarts. Bring on the zombies!

NVGHOSTRIDER

Friday, March 20, 2009 4:26 PM

Zombies have at least three force multipliers in their arsenal. Granted we are discussing Romero undead sort.
1. They are already dead. Hunger, sleep, and emotion are not an issue with them.
2. They eat people. People who don't die from an attack risk becoming a zombie sooner after having physical contact with them.
3. People are generally stupider than zombies. Okay, hear me out on this one. People are prone to panic attacks, power trips, and low self esteem/morale. They will as soon kill and eat each other once times get hard. People are their own enemies.

Combat/situational fatigue sets in on the average person within the day. With an unfamiliar world and unprepared mindset people will literally walk into rattling gunfire or a zombie hoarde without blinking. Healthy humans can get sick, make themselves sick, and can get other people sick. Not with the zombie plague, but with common things like colds and STIs. Zombies do not have to worry about protecting weaker group members, carrying necessary equipment, a steady supply of food and water, or all but the most extreme weather conditons. And people will die only to become zombie.

At least with they varying possibilities of alien life they are limited by their exposure to this world and its inhabitants. In theory this planet offers natural resources needed by any number of theoretical being. Even humans provide some sort of resource whether they be food, incubation material, or manual labor. The possibility of human survival is greater with alien interaction than with zombie.

Or, at least in my humble opinion.

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ZEEK

Friday, March 20, 2009 5:01 PM

1 tank > infinite zombies

They wouldn't be able to damage a tank in any way. They're just flesh and bone. The military would win eventually.

Aliens are tough cause it all depends on their technology and their goals. If they want to I'm sure they could destroy all life on the planet. Bio weapons, nukes, even just hurling a giant asteroid at us. They would probably want an undamaged planet to inhabit though so nukes and asteroid are probably out. Still I think they'd be far too advanced for us to even defend against. They could just sit in orbit shooting lasers at us and we'd just be waving white flags.

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