The Walking Dead

[Sutekh]

I don't for one second think that Fastlearner meant that I was a racist. Im certainly a Zombist though (they all gotta die! ) As an Australian I dont ever see a large amount of Racism, not to the extent that other countries do and have.

I was under the impression that the outlying shops would of been looted already so people would make their way further into the center. It may of been 'safe' before the Rick indicent with the Tank and all the loud noises but, the helicopter noise was still never really fully explained. I know I heard it, I know Rick heard it. Is there still possibly a 'military' presence out there?

 

[Stoat]

The Walking Dead Google Map (which appears to be based on the comix and seems spoilerrific) puts the refugee camp at a quarry a half-mile or so from Georgia Tech. That makes Glenn's trip downtown make a little more sense. He's only going a mile or so and he's already well past the 'burbs.

THE WALKING DEAD GOOGLE MAP - Google Maps

 

[Fast Learner]

I'm sorry, but this reads like you just called sutekh a racist.

Suggesting that racism would die in ZombieLand if there was a lack of support by people like sutekh is how that reads in English.

I assume that's not what you meant to imply.

I cannot even remotely fathom how you read it that way, and am pleased that Sutekh did not.

As to the causes of intolerance, this definitely isn't the site to discuss it, and I shouldn't have engaged the topic.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Hard to say if there are enough people in this zombpocalypse world to re-form hate/intolerance groups, but it wouldn't be surprising.

Haters like that would probably survive the Chewed World Hors D'oeuvres- many fringe hate groups have isolated, fortified compounds full of weapons, accessible to their elites, if noone else.

Sure, some would collapse, but the better organized ones would do as well as military bases.

 

[Sutekh]

Danny brings up a damn good point. Now we know that the military looked to have had their ass kicked in Atlanta. The tank and the sandbags and the big guns we saw were all deserted and picked over areas. Im inclined to believe that while they didnt get overwhelmed quickly,it still progressed rapidly. What is more interesting is that if this is set 'now' , a large chunk of US forces are overseas on deployment which makes it far more likely to me that what was left couldnt contain the menace. Assuming world events being world evens in the Walking Dead of course.

Of course I could be way off base.

Id be looting dem military bases though

Speaking of military equipment though, are todays nuclear power plants dotted across America in need of TLC on a regular basis so they dont have .. hiccups? Im assuming the zombies dont make for good people to tend to complex machinery.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Danny brings up a damn good point. Now we know that the military looked to have had their ass kicked in Atlanta.

For most people, it's hard to shoot or use force against someone you know or think you know or reminds you of people you know...look at those old Tienamen Square videos.

But the white separatists and similarly armed, paranoid & insular groups are going to be defaulting to an "us or them" mindset...and will be expecting enemies. If they recognize the zombie threat early enough, they'll probably do just fine.

Speaking of military equipment though, are todays nuclear power plants dotted across America in need of TLC on a regular basis so they dont have .. hiccups? Im assuming the zombies dont make for good people to tend to complex machinery.

Homer Simpson seems to handle it pretty well.

 

[LightPhoenix]

Speaking of military equipment though, are todays nuclear power plants dotted across America in need of TLC on a regular basis so they dont have .. hiccups? Im assuming the zombies dont make for good people to tend to complex machinery.

My understanding is that most, if not all, nuclear reactors have safeguards in place to quench reactions if there's no human input for a certain amount of time.

 

[Hand of Evil]

My understanding is that most, if not all, nuclear reactors have safeguards in place to quench reactions if there's no human input for a certain amount of time.

Watch Life without Humans on The History Channel - the plants will shut down after a few days BUT it is the cooling rods that will be the issue. They are in tanks of water, when the water goes because of the heat from the expended rod, things go BOOM. It will be mostly a dirty bomb, not the mushroom cloud but lots of RADs as the winds takes it. This will take place within a year.

But that is not all, you have dams that will start to fail within a year to five, which will cause flooding. You have trains of Chlorine gas just waiting to rust out or something else happens, which will create fogs of doom. Then there are all those gas lines, oil refineres and storage units. Oh, lets not forget Kudzu, it will take over Atlanta within 5 years. Yep, they discussed this on Life after Humans. Then, there will be the wild fires that will hit the cities hard.

 

[Klaus]

Watch Life without Humans on The History Channel - the plants will shut down after a few days BUT it is the cooling rods that will be the issue. They are in tanks of water, when the water goes because of the heat from the expended rod, things go BOOM. It will be mostly a dirty bomb, not the mushroom cloud but lots of RADs as the winds takes it. This will take place within a year.

But that is not all, you have dams that will start to fail within a year to five, which will cause flooding. You have trains of Chlorine gas just waiting to rust out or something else happens, which will create fogs of doom. Then there are all those gas lines, oil refineres and storage units. Oh, lets not forget Kudzu, it will take over Atlanta within 5 years. Yep, they discussed this on Life after Humans. Then, there will be the wild fires that will hit the cities hard.

Yeah, Life Without Humans won't be a Garden of Eden. But TWD takes place pretty soon by those standards, so we have some time before it becomes Thundarr's world...

Back to the second episode, I was most surprised to see zombies using rocks to break the glass doors. And later on, *running* (not a mere shuffle, but an all-out run) after Rick and Glenn and then that one zombie *leaping* over the chain-link fence!

Also, the "zombie sniffing" got a little too blatant in this episode. In the comic, the zombies simply ignored them, but in the TV series they seemed like police dogs (should they even be breathing?).

 

[LightPhoenix]

Watch Life without Humans on The History Channel - the plants will shut down after a few days BUT it is the cooling rods that will be the issue. They are in tanks of water, when the water goes because of the heat from the expended rod, things go BOOM. It will be mostly a dirty bomb, not the mushroom cloud but lots of RADs as the winds takes it. This will take place within a year.

Sounds interesting, I'll have to seek it out!