YourSwordIsMine
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blargney the second said:
Oh noes! zombie stormtroopers!
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Zombie Outbreak - where to hide?
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Oh noes! zombie stormtroopers!
blargney the second
blargney the minute's son
Meh, they'll just miss your brains every time.YourSwordIsMine said:
Asmor
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On an island. There's a couple on Lake Sunapee, a small lake in New Hampshire I've spent a lot of time at, and I'm sure most lakes would have similar.
Super easy to secure, assuming zombies don't just walk along the lake bed. But, if you're far enough away that they can't see you, how could they? And anyways, I'm not convinced they could, don't dead bodies float? Even if not, they're so close to being buoyant that their shambling would be no match for even the lightest tide, and they'd just get pushed back and forth.
Super easy to secure, assuming zombies don't just walk along the lake bed. But, if you're far enough away that they can't see you, how could they? And anyways, I'm not convinced they could, don't dead bodies float? Even if not, they're so close to being buoyant that their shambling would be no match for even the lightest tide, and they'd just get pushed back and forth.
MoogleEmpMog
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An airborne city.
Surprisingly practical if you have time to prepare (and heaping great gobs of cash), you can take advantage of the geometrically increasing buoyancy of larger lighter-than-air-gas aircraft. Ideally, you'll want a multi-mile circular 'field' of helium bags (hydrogen would probably be safe, too, but be sure you don't use, oh, I don't know, INCREDIBLY FLAMMABLE PAINT on the surface of the bag) with a comparatively small skyscraper-like structure in the center.
Use the immense uninhabited 'field' area for aeroponic farms and solar power so you don't have to load your floating city down with too much fuel - even highly efficient nuclear fuel is going to be tough to maintain when the ground is consumed by the zombie apocalypse.
Now you and a few thousand of your friends, family and a genetically promising circle of acquaintances can settle on this flying paradise, zombie-free. Call it New Eden or Lifthrasir or something suitably epic, and you'll be well on your way to repopulating the living human race in a few centuries.
Surprisingly practical if you have time to prepare (and heaping great gobs of cash), you can take advantage of the geometrically increasing buoyancy of larger lighter-than-air-gas aircraft. Ideally, you'll want a multi-mile circular 'field' of helium bags (hydrogen would probably be safe, too, but be sure you don't use, oh, I don't know, INCREDIBLY FLAMMABLE PAINT on the surface of the bag) with a comparatively small skyscraper-like structure in the center.
Use the immense uninhabited 'field' area for aeroponic farms and solar power so you don't have to load your floating city down with too much fuel - even highly efficient nuclear fuel is going to be tough to maintain when the ground is consumed by the zombie apocalypse.
Now you and a few thousand of your friends, family and a genetically promising circle of acquaintances can settle on this flying paradise, zombie-free. Call it New Eden or Lifthrasir or something suitably epic, and you'll be well on your way to repopulating the living human race in a few centuries.
MonkeyDragon
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I've come to the determination that if zombies happen, I should proably just kill myself and get it over with. There's no way I'd survive.
--I'm not the hero or the badass. I have no skill with weapons and am not athletic, so I won't be able to kill them off in droves before I get chewed up. And I won't look cool, either.
--I'm not the love interest. I'm not a svelte beauty or the girl next door. Ladies with poor complextions do not survive zombie attacks.
--I don't really do well in emotionally stressful situations. I don['t like being scared, and when I get very upset, my chest, head and ears feel funny. I'd probably freeze up in terror if a zombie was coming at me.
All in all, I have nothing going for me. I won't make it to the end of the movie, so why bother fighting to stay alive through the first wave? It just prolongs the experience and makes my last few days full of fear and discomfort. Even for the people that make it, there's usually nothing good waiting for them after the credits roll. Eking out a perilous existance in a post-zombie society doesn't sound like my cup of tea. I think I'd be better off having a friend take me out fast and clean.
On the other hand, if we're talking survival in a post apocolyptic world after most of the population has been wiped out by a mysterious illness (chicken flu, anyone?), I have all kinds of plans ready for that.
--I'm not the hero or the badass. I have no skill with weapons and am not athletic, so I won't be able to kill them off in droves before I get chewed up. And I won't look cool, either.
--I'm not the love interest. I'm not a svelte beauty or the girl next door. Ladies with poor complextions do not survive zombie attacks.
--I don't really do well in emotionally stressful situations. I don['t like being scared, and when I get very upset, my chest, head and ears feel funny. I'd probably freeze up in terror if a zombie was coming at me.
All in all, I have nothing going for me. I won't make it to the end of the movie, so why bother fighting to stay alive through the first wave? It just prolongs the experience and makes my last few days full of fear and discomfort. Even for the people that make it, there's usually nothing good waiting for them after the credits roll. Eking out a perilous existance in a post-zombie society doesn't sound like my cup of tea. I think I'd be better off having a friend take me out fast and clean.
On the other hand, if we're talking survival in a post apocolyptic world after most of the population has been wiped out by a mysterious illness (chicken flu, anyone?), I have all kinds of plans ready for that.
Mmm. World War Z.
A hospital? Good gods, no! That's where the first zombie attack victims go - they are the first place swarming with zombies.
A wholesale place? No. Only one floor, and usually huge doors. Lots of entry, and no upper floor to retreat to (zombies don't climb well)
An island? No - zombies don't need to breathe, and can just walk there. And you're stuck.
A houseboat, however, might be good, if you have enough supplies. Of course, when you run out, you have to come to land that's swarming with zombies.
Might try an inner-city school - supplies, built like a fortress, multiple levels.
Maybe a bunker built inside an old water tower...
A hospital? Good gods, no! That's where the first zombie attack victims go - they are the first place swarming with zombies.
A wholesale place? No. Only one floor, and usually huge doors. Lots of entry, and no upper floor to retreat to (zombies don't climb well)
An island? No - zombies don't need to breathe, and can just walk there. And you're stuck.
A houseboat, however, might be good, if you have enough supplies. Of course, when you run out, you have to come to land that's swarming with zombies.
Might try an inner-city school - supplies, built like a fortress, multiple levels.
Maybe a bunker built inside an old water tower...
TheLe
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MonkeyDragon said:
You know, it's funny. Because lately I've been thinking that humans would probably survive a zombie outbreak.
Really.
I have clearly been watching too much tv, but I am pretty sure that 300 Spartans can hold off hundreds of thousands of zombies. If they can do it, then I am pretty sure that we can too.
The zombies have the element of surprise, but once we get over it I think we'd do a great job of fighting back... and eventually win.
Well, that's only if there is an outbreak of the Romero slow zombies. If we get the neo-super-fast zombies, then we're really screwed.
~The
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