A paper describing how we may not be hearing from intelligent aliens in the galaxy, because they're all zombies!
http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.8146
http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.8146
A Necro-Biological Explanation of the Fermi Paradox
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Homicidal_Squirrel
Adventurer
I'm pretty sure any intelligent life would avoid us.
freyar
Extradimensional Explorer
I wish I had this much free time...
Scott DeWar
Prof. Emeritus-Supernatural Events/Countermeasure
I would hate to see an invasion of space zombies. They never die, so they could travel for 100,000 years and further!
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Zombie_Babies
First Post
That's the best part about zombies, IMO. I had this idea to write a Siffy channel-esque story about Fukushima. Tsunami kills people, radiation animates corpses as zombies, zombies walk across Pacific toward North American coast and invade. Just never found the time.
Kramodlog
Naked and living in a barrel
This is the biggest flaw of zombie flicks and tv shows. Their flesh only rots partially. Either they rot or either they do not. If they do, a zombie apocalypse should't last more than a few weeks or months. After some time they wouldn't be threats anyone, just pills of bones.
Winter should also stop them since they generate no heat.
Winter should also stop them since they generate no heat.
No, the biggest flaw of most of them is the thermodynamic impossibility of zombies as described. Supernatural zombies get around this by simply invoking magic. But these days all the zombies are virus or disease based, and once you invoke that explanation, it all falls apart.
The zombies must get their energy of motion from *somewhere*. If it is from the flesh they eat, then they must digest and distribute that energy around the body. That implies some form of circulation, vital organs functioning, and so on. The thing is doing all the activity of a living thing, so it is a living thing, not dead. It may not feel pain, but it will still have other vulnerabilities of living things.
Oh, no, this one works okay - there are examples of self-limiting processes in nature and human experience - fermentation, for example, is self-limiting. Once the alcohol level gets high enough, the yeast are limited, and the process goes no further. So, for zombies, they rot to some degree, and then the products of the process then poison the things that make them rot, stopping the process.
For biological zombies, yes, there is that problem. In "World War Z" (the book, not the atrocious movie) this is a notable plot point humans can use - zombies freeze in winter, allowing folks in Northern latitudes to get by without threat of getting munched on.
Kramodlog
Naked and living in a barrel
What product would that be?
Anyway, that wouldn't protect them from wear and tear or the elements. The point is that zomibes do not reproduce and their threat should be limited to a short period of time.
I know. I just said it.
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