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jmfargoSo, where will the zombies come from?
George Romero, well known zombie expert and apologist (have you seen Land of the Dead? Bah!), believes that the staggering zombie hordes will be caused by radiation from outer space that revives recently deceased humans and causes them to have a deadly spittle that is passed on to other humans when they are bitten. The bite is not what makes the person a zombie, but what kills them, thus causing them to rise as a zombie from the radiation.
His theory has merit in that we are constantly exploring the universe, and it's always throwing new things our way, but I think that if it were a form of radiation, it would probably have more of an effect on living tissue than dead, and we'd have more to worry about than zombies. At least zombies can be defended against by the common man if diligent. Radiation is a whole other problem.
The creator of The Zombie Hunters, obviously well-versed in the hidden lore of zombies but a little caught up in the fantasy of it all, believes that zombies will be caused by a virus of some kind, spreadable through bite and saliva. This, to me, is the most probable cause, and the kind of cause that I tend to focus on when talking about zombie defense. I don't believe all corpses will rise, only the infected.
The Resident Evil line of thought would have you believe that the virus is even more fantastic than the one above, and could spread through various types of animals, mutate humans, and cause worse monsters than even zombies. Fast monsters that can walk on walls. I hesitate in calling most of the creatures made in this line of survival-skills-teaching media zombies, as they are mostly simply monsters. Still, these games can teach you the basics, like finding the blue and red gemstones to put into the raven's eyes in order to get a better gun.
The Zombie Survival Guide (the currently most complete and well-written zombie survival guide available) also believes that the zombie virus is passed on through the general means and that it is a virus, not radiation, or genetic manipulation. The end result of the virus is simply zombification, no mutation or change. For the most factual accounting of zombies, aside from this blog, this book is where to go to read it.
What other theories are there? Millions*, I'm sure. I've looked at those I could find, and my best guess is that it will be a man-made zombie virus that mutates slightly, and gets loose. I just pray that it will never mutate enough to get airborne. If it does that, the only way that humanity will survive is if enough people are immune to it, otherwise we're all doomed.
So let's just hope the zombies can only transmit it through biting. That, we can fight against.
Let's go kill some zombies.
*Hundreds? At least ten?
George Romero, well known zombie expert and apologist (have you seen Land of the Dead? Bah!), believes that the staggering zombie hordes will be caused by radiation from outer space that revives recently deceased humans and causes them to have a deadly spittle that is passed on to other humans when they are bitten. The bite is not what makes the person a zombie, but what kills them, thus causing them to rise as a zombie from the radiation.
His theory has merit in that we are constantly exploring the universe, and it's always throwing new things our way, but I think that if it were a form of radiation, it would probably have more of an effect on living tissue than dead, and we'd have more to worry about than zombies. At least zombies can be defended against by the common man if diligent. Radiation is a whole other problem.
The creator of The Zombie Hunters, obviously well-versed in the hidden lore of zombies but a little caught up in the fantasy of it all, believes that zombies will be caused by a virus of some kind, spreadable through bite and saliva. This, to me, is the most probable cause, and the kind of cause that I tend to focus on when talking about zombie defense. I don't believe all corpses will rise, only the infected.
The Resident Evil line of thought would have you believe that the virus is even more fantastic than the one above, and could spread through various types of animals, mutate humans, and cause worse monsters than even zombies. Fast monsters that can walk on walls. I hesitate in calling most of the creatures made in this line of survival-skills-teaching media zombies, as they are mostly simply monsters. Still, these games can teach you the basics, like finding the blue and red gemstones to put into the raven's eyes in order to get a better gun.
The Zombie Survival Guide (the currently most complete and well-written zombie survival guide available) also believes that the zombie virus is passed on through the general means and that it is a virus, not radiation, or genetic manipulation. The end result of the virus is simply zombification, no mutation or change. For the most factual accounting of zombies, aside from this blog, this book is where to go to read it.
What other theories are there? Millions*, I'm sure. I've looked at those I could find, and my best guess is that it will be a man-made zombie virus that mutates slightly, and gets loose. I just pray that it will never mutate enough to get airborne. If it does that, the only way that humanity will survive is if enough people are immune to it, otherwise we're all doomed.
So let's just hope the zombies can only transmit it through biting. That, we can fight against.
Let's go kill some zombies.
*Hundreds? At least ten?
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Date: 2007-12-10 08:42 pm (UTC)