The Wade Davis book that Jimmy mentions (and Stephen confirms) is called, "The Serpent and the Rainbow" (also a movie, and mentioned in a few songs) and is a great book to give someone.. for Halloween! muhahahaha!

Wrong! Islands and such would last much longer, hence not everyone in the world would be a zombie. Not to mention forms of governments that have underground bunkers and other "end of the world" resources/preparations.

It's not like a zombie is going to make it on every (or any) flight or boat to an island either.

Dude. You need to watch more movies.>> ^Gutspiller:

Wrong! Islands and such would last much longer, hence not everyone in the world would be a zombie. Not to mention forms of governments that have underground bunkers and other "end of the world" resources/preparations.
It's not like a zombie is going to make it on every (or any) flight or boat to an island either.

Yes, because movies have it right. Please! People aren't as stupid as movies portray them to be. If a zombie apocalypse ever actually happened. What went down, and what happens in movies would be completely different.


>> ^lampishthing:

Dude. You need to watch more movies.>> ^Gutspiller:
Wrong! Islands and such would last much longer, hence not everyone in the world would be a zombie. Not to mention forms of governments that have underground bunkers and other "end of the world" resources/preparations.
It's not like a zombie is going to make it on every (or any) flight or boat to an island either.

>> ^Gutspiller:
Yes, because movies have it right. Please! People aren't as stupid as movies portray them to be. If a zombie apocalypse ever actually happened. What went down, and what happens in movies would be completely different.
>> ^lampishthing:
Dude. You need to watch more movies.>> ^Gutspiller:
Wrong! Islands and such would last much longer, hence not everyone in the world would be a zombie. Not to mention forms of governments that have underground bunkers and other "end of the world" resources/preparations.
It's not like a zombie is going to make it on every (or any) flight or boat to an island either.




Damn...so you're saying I need to rethink my zombie apocalypse survival plan.

Ok, so I followed my own advice and watched Land of the Dead. Maybe humanity will last more than 38 days but clearly we're all still going to die. And capitalism will be to blame.>> ^Gutspiller:

Yes, because movies have it right. Please! People aren't as stupid as movies portray them to be. If a zombie apocalypse ever actually happened. What went down, and what happens in movies would be completely different.

>> ^lampishthing:
Dude. You need to watch more movies.>> ^Gutspiller:
Wrong! Islands and such would last much longer, hence not everyone in the world would be a zombie. Not to mention forms of governments that have underground bunkers and other "end of the world" resources/preparations.
It's not like a zombie is going to make it on every (or any) flight or boat to an island either.

Yeah, we will all die. But I think we would last longer than 30 days, is all I'm saying.

Headshots are hard to pull off you know! Especially when you're trying to keep your distance from the infectious blood.

>> ^lampishthing:

Ok, so I followed my own advice and watched Land of the Dead. Maybe humanity will last more than 38 days but clearly we're all still going to die. And capitalism will be to blame.>> ^Gutspiller:
Yes, because movies have it right. Please! People aren't as stupid as movies portray them to be. If a zombie apocalypse ever actually happened. What went down, and what happens in movies would be completely different.

>> ^lampishthing:
Dude. You need to watch more movies.>> ^Gutspiller:
Wrong! Islands and such would last much longer, hence not everyone in the world would be a zombie. Not to mention forms of governments that have underground bunkers and other "end of the world" resources/preparations.
It's not like a zombie is going to make it on every (or any) flight or boat to an island either.

Best plan would be to hide in a shelter for a few weeks and wait for the zombies to run out of food and die of starvation.

Guess it depends on which zombie mythos you're using/hoping for... ; )

28 days later/rage virus style zombies could be starved out but are much more aggressive and more likely to spread infection. Incubation time is relatively short so it's not likely people on planes would be able to transmit intercontinentally.

Resident Evil zombies can have the virus spread via birds so transcontinental infection would be much faster. All in all, RE infection is basically the worst of the worst in terms of zombie invasions with the penchant for mutation in to super zombies/creatures.

Classic Romero dead that just rise up and start fucking the planet over? Much slower but much less likely to be stopped.

Remember, you also have to factor in things like:

a) high suicide rates from people believing there is no hope
b) infrastructure and services failing (power plants, water, food etc) which would lead to starvation etc
c) nutjobs deliberately spreading the infection (your standard doomsday cult sorta thing)

I think a Zombie apocalypse would fizzle out pretty quick.

I mean, they'd rot away in a month, the hotter the climate the faster. Cold climate would be even better still, they'd freeze up pretty quickly.

Lets also not forget that humans are pretty rubbish at surviving when you take away our gadgets and guns. A zombie is basically a hairless ape, only slower and probably less intelligent. And we still have cars.

This all assumes the epidemic would even get a foothold to start with. A disease transferable simply by Zombie bite? Come on, Bird Flu is more infectious and the whole world didn't fall ill to that in 30 days.