Zombie Invasion!
POSTED BY: Bytemite
UPDATED: Friday, March 5, 2010 21:36
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Way I figure it, staying mobile early on is right. And if I've got it figured right, then early days is the only time to really worry. At least I hope so.
Anyone ever address what the zombies eat when they run out of brains? Do they just naturally waste away and die? Do they just forage forever?
How long do you have to outrun them? All your life, or just 'til they fall over after running out of your slower compadres?
But yeah - stay mobile early on, and be on the lookout for a stable and defensible place - preferably AWAY from any (former) population centers. Top of a mesa might be a good place, if you can get to water and supplies without too much trouble.
Make it harder for zombies to come to you, and they'll likely not bother. And you get the drop on 'em.
"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero, Real World Event Discussions
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The initial problem with zombie physiology is that they are dead. They can have holes in their digestive system such as that whatever they eat falls out of them before digestion, and even if the food were digested, they have no beating heart or moving blood to move the nutrients around to cells.
Yet despite not having food, and therefore not having fuel for chemical reactions to create ATP which effects the myosin walk which governs muscle contraction, zombies can still walk, albeit stiffly and slowly.
As such, the conclusion is that zombies neither need to eat or breathe. The drive to eat is separate from the need to eat, which zombies lack. The origin of the drive to eat is uncertain, as zombies are brain dead and brain cells can generally be expected to be necrotized. The drive to eat may come from directed behaviour in otherwise dead cells through the zombie virus. The other possibility is a curse, but unfortunately there is no scientific basis to discuss the effect of a curse, even though in a zombie story curses can be real.
The preoccupation with brains is likely an efficient manner to spread the infection/curse by introducing the virus/curse into the victim's systems and by removing and destroying the higher functions of the brain that might attempt resist the effects of the virus or which might result in decisions by the host to damage themselves into uselessness before the virus/curse can take over.
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