Zombies - not so impossible?: Image courtesy lebovox via Flickr. Okay, I'll grant that the scientific research conducted by Cracked magazine may not be the most top notch stuff, they do have links to some pretty cool articles that have actual science in them in this totally awesome article about how zombies could actually happen. I love zombies and zombie stories. And Halloween. This article is perfect joy for me. Though readers beware, they do use some off color language occasionally.
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I think about The Zombie Apocalypse a lot.
Here's kind of a fun mental game you can play (it works at home, work, church, etc, where ever you can just zone out): consider your surroundings, and plot out your best course of action should Zombie Apocalypse suddenly occur (there will be no warning for the real zombie apocalypse). Are there lots of people around? Do they look like zombies-in-waiting, or fun survivor sidekick material? Which rooms or areas would offer the best protection (remember, zombies aren't fast, but there are a lot of them, and you can get trapped). Are there materials around for improvised anti-zombie weapons? The scenario can get as detailed as you want.
Now, when playing Zombie Apocalypse, you have to accept that you're sort of thinking like a crazy person. Just go with it though - it's all part of the game.
I play this game all the time. I'm so glad I'm not the only one!
You mean something like this?
2012... Now there is a thought. That in my opinion, is when the Zombie Apocalypse will begin. Are we prepared? Will we survive? I suspect that we are all in for a very difficult time. I am preparing myself for this unlikely, yet factual event which is about to hit us all in four years time.
I think you're wrong about 2012. End of the big Mayan calendar cycle, blah blah blah. I think a really good zombie apocalypse has to be our fault (28 Days Later), or a total mystery (Dawn of the Dead).
Prophesy doesn't do it for me. Unless someone who is all fired up about 2012 accidentally unleashes a zombie plague on the world through some New Agey ritual--that'd be pretty cool.
You're right about it being a trying time for us all, however.
Here's a link Liza sent my way this week--it's a brief, but pretty comprehensive zombie survival instructional video. I hope you all find it useful.
I play that game all the time, I'm a security Forces member in the USAF and I'm armed up all the time at work and I have 12 hours of post time to zone out and think of everything I would do should they start to attack. I worked an Iraqi Prison on my last deployment that made for some cool scenarios.
Meanwhile, archaeologists in Egypt have pinpointed the site of the first recorded zombie attack, though the date remains a matter of debate.
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