What If: Zombies Started Appearing and Spreading?

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Mermaidman

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Sep 4, 2003
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Option1: I would reinstall Doom and start practicing. Real zombies, unlike computer game types, should be a piece o' cake--They don't shoot back.

Option2: Wear plate-mail armor.

Option3: Both of the above

(LOL@thread)
 

Triumph

Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
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Our Founding Fathers drew up the 2nd Amendment specifically for the purpose of fighting zombies. They knew it would happen eventually.

Franklin: Hey TJ, this document is great, except we're missing one thing. What are we supposed to do about zombies?
Jefferson: Damnit, I knew I was forgetting something, Ben! I was worrying about zombies last night, too. The people need to protect themselves in a zombie attack situation. The military won't be able to be everywhere at once.
Franklin: Exactly. The people need to have their own weapons!
Jefferson: [writing]shall not...be....infringed. [/writing]
Franklin: I think that's perfect.
Jefferson: Goddamn zombies.
 

Schadenfroh

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Mar 8, 2003
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go to my uncle and grandpas houses (various ex soviet munitions) in the excusrion, then go to the local car dealership with the guns and steal a hummer, then head for the hills with the guns and hummer, and maybe a few B#*ches i could pick up from school and scare them into submitting into me out of fear of zombies
 

krunchykrome

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I would grab my closest friends and family, and head to a wallmart and barricade myself in there.
I would have entertainment, food, and shelter until I could think of a better plan.
 

Kelvrick

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Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
go to my uncle and grandpas houses (various ex soviet munitions) in the excusrion, then go to the local car dealership with the guns and steal a hummer, then head for the hills with the guns and hummer, and maybe a few B#*ches i could pick up from school and scare them into submitting into me out of fear of zombies

Hmm... I like. Where can I invest in this stealing of the hummer and taking of the b1tches and then the getting of the hummers from the b1tches?
 

krunchykrome

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Dec 28, 2003
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Originally posted by: Kelvrick
Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
go to my uncle and grandpas houses (various ex soviet munitions) in the excusrion, then go to the local car dealership with the guns and steal a hummer, then head for the hills with the guns and hummer, and maybe a few B#*ches i could pick up from school and scare them into submitting into me out of fear of zombies

Hmm... I like. Where can I invest in this stealing of the hummer and taking of the b1tches and then the getting of the hummers from the b1tches?


The problem with the hummer is that after a few hours of driving, your gonna run out of gas and then your out of luck.

Id take my chances on a skateboard.
 

nan0bug

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Apr 22, 2003
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I'd try to keep my daughter alive as long as possible. If she got bit, I would kill as many as possible before offing myself, since without her life is meaningless.
 

chocobaR

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Sep 17, 2001
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I'd build a city that floats and the zombies would live beneath that city! I'd do some occasional raids with my team of trained Zombie Slayers.
 

So

Lifer
Jul 2, 2001
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I think this is one of those eventualities that I'm going to take a gamble on and not have a plan for.

Call me crazy...
 

OverVolt

Lifer
Aug 31, 2002
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I'm going to order elephant brains and strap them to my body lol.

Then i would go to the local wal-mart and start digging treches with the protection of my elephant brain armor... lol @ this thread
 

thedarkwolf

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Oct 13, 1999
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Originally posted by: lirion
I have dreams about this pretty often. I would unite the resistance bands and lead them to victory.


I am not the only freak that has those :). Haven't had any lately but it was a weekly event for years. I usually ended up boarded up in a house somewhere.
 

Nocturnal

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Jan 8, 2002
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Originally posted by: K1052
Originally posted by: Orsorum
The thing that surprised me about alternate endings to 28 Days Later was the speculation that the disease spread at all, beyond the British mainland; if you think about it, the infection/incubation period was so short as to limit the feasible distance of contamination; any flights going out would have everyone in the plane becoming infected within a few minutes and the plane either crashing (if the pilots were also infected) or being shot down (if the cockpit was sealed). Other than swimming, of which most zombies are not capable, the infection would be limited to the island and burn itself out.

So, that begs another question - how short is the incubation period of this zombie disease?

In the new film it seemed to be several hours to a day or so.

It is actually as soon as a person dies that they turn.
 

Nocturnal

Lifer
Jan 8, 2002
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For me, I'd try to get my hands on or hope that the military would use a nuclear bomb on where most of the zombies are at.
 

hjo3

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May 22, 2003
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Hmm... either eat a bullet or sit on the roof of my house till I ran out of dog food and water.
 

Acanthus

Lifer
Aug 28, 2001
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Originally posted by: OverVolt
I'm going to order elephant brains and strap them to my body lol.

Then i would go to the local wal-mart and start digging treches with the protection of my elephant brain armor... lol @ this thread

you win! :beer::D
 

NikPreviousAcct

No Lifer
Aug 15, 2000
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A friend of mine makes real chainmail armor. I'd have him build me a suit and I'd grab a katana of mine in each hand and have some fun!
 

So

Lifer
Jul 2, 2001
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Haven't seen the movie (yet) but, why not get an abrams and shoot them until you run out of ammo, then sit tight.
 

DanTMWTMP

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Oct 7, 2001
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Originally posted by: FFMCobalt
A friend of mine makes real chainmail armor. I'd have him build me a suit and I'd grab a katana of mine in each hand and have some fun!

i'd get that bear resistant armor.....arg i'm too lazy to find the link...and go to the zoo, and release all the hungry predators ...while i stand tight in the bear suit...w/ explosives and lotsa guns