Could zombies really overrun the earth?

[J Heartless Slick]

Originally posted by: LordJezo
so i saw 28 days later..

made me think of dawn of the dead.. do you really think zombies could take over the world? now, i understand there would be billions of dead roaming the earth, but, zombies in the classic sence are super slow braindead, well, zombies that just wander about looking for an alive person to munch on. now, all you need to do is just conk them in the head or shoot them in the head and they are down for good. while it might take a few years of total lock down to get the probelm under control i would think the army and private citizens, as long as they go into a 24hour watch mode would be able to take out a bunch of peopel walking around.

No. Have you ever seen a zombie in real life?

 

28 Days Later zombies are more hardcore than Dawn of the Dead. DotD zombies are like target practice.

 

[Zombie]

<-----Yes we can~~~~~~~

 

[UnatcoAgent]

Originally posted by: gigapet
i cant believe this thread exists

lol

 

[UNCjigga]

There was a good Steven King short about this...maybe part of 'Everything's Eventual' or another collection...can't remember...but it was good!

 

[LordJezo]

Originally posted by: syzygy

Originally posted by: LordJezo
so i saw 28 days later..

made me think of dawn of the dead.. do you really think zombies could take over the world? now, i understand there would be billions of dead roaming the earth, but, zombies in the classic sence are super slow braindead, well, zombies that just wander about looking for an alive person to munch on. now, all you need to do is just conk them in the head or shoot them in the head and they are down for good. while it might take a few years of total lock down to get the probelm under control i would think the army and private citizens, as long as they go into a 24hour watch mode would be able to take out a bunch of peopel walking around.

first you need a terminal and highly communicable pathogen that rapidly infects the host and turns the victim into a psychotic bloodthirsty
cannibal. the virus would need to cause some type of brain atrophy and manifest an insatiable lust for human flesh in the person.

if such an improbable virus could be created - i don't think it could evolve naturally - then you could look to the 1918 influenze epidemic, the
black death of the 14th century, and even sars as precedents. the film's premise is plausible - assuming such a virus could ever exist - because
the virus would create an infected host who is very aggresive. ebola is another good example of a highly contagious disease that kills rapidly,
but it doesn't make the host aggresive.

I was talking about the Night of the Living Dead series.. 28 days later just made me think of it. In those movies zombies = anyone who died w/o being shot in the head.