Good point. If you reinforce the garden area, you could plant some veggies and fruits to grow as well. The problem with the zombie apocalypse will be the other people, not even the zombies.
I think actual real world reanimated corpse zombies are basically impossible. There is no actual way to power and maintain the muscles that are required to move around without an active metabolism. I could see something like the "Last of Us" brain fungus, that doesn't actually kill the host right away being possible, or a "rage virus" like 28 Days Later, like a variation on rabies that affects the mind, but then you could kill them like a you could kill a normal person, by cutting open their veins and letting the red stuff drain out, and if they weren't killed they'd basically slowly starve to death. I can not imagine any possible way that a half-rotted corpse could make those half-rotted muscles contract at all in order to move about. It would be like imagining a "virus" that could let you drive your car around town with no gas in the tank and no fluids in the engine. It just doesn't work that way. You basically have to believe in magic for that to work. Sorry to break the mood, but every time I see a zombie movie, I wonder how all the extremely delicately balanced chemistry manages to keep on working.
Funny you ask. I've had the same plan for over a decade for zombie apocalypse or some other form of mass craziness. My HS friends and I are going to hijack a boat and be pirates. We agreed that we can each hand out passes to get on the boat to a select few and that we'll all take a few wives to populate. The goal is something big enough where we can grow some form of agriculture in addition to fish and canned goods. We'll survive by trade and piracy and wait for things to die down and our population to grow and stabilize before we make landfall where we can and start a new civilization. Preferably an island. We had Tuvalu as the destination for awhile, but that will likely be underwater. North Sentinel Island was also an idea for a little bit. (this assumes the six of us, only two of which have formal weapons training, will be able to commandeer a large enough boat.
Yes, definitely agree, when I watch a zombie movie I basically suspend all science/belief... Haha Another example of fungus is - like you see in ants, even if temporary to give the fungus an advantage in fitness to further reproduce. I know the media made it more exciting with zombie ants, but it's still pretty interesting how it can control some movements of the ant and use it to its advantage before killing the host. So TLOU could work, but I'd expect it to be pretty limited in what it can do movement wise, unless it had some specialized traits etc. And definitely agree, it'd have to be some rabies/rage type virus that somehow didn't kill the host - like 28 days later etc. Like the crazy stuff we see on TV/movies ... There's like zombies around for years or something with no metabolic process/sleep/function out in harsh environments, they'd be decayed/useless pretty quickly. That's why I find zombie stuff is best to turn any type of thinking off. One time I was trying to explain na/potassium pump/channels etc for nerves to someone and it started out fun and quickly went down hill with not much to discuss other than another way typical zombies would fail, didn't even have to go into much more detail.
I read part of a book series where the humans survived on a flotilla including cleaned-out cruise ships. Obviously fuel is an issue. That’s going to be real bloody to take and/or hold. High visibility and the first place hungry people will go. I think you’re better off (safer) raiding empty houses for supplies as you work your way into the wilderness.
Industrial warehouse/distribution area. Those places are usually loaded with goods and people won't think about them. Very rarely labeled with anything but the smallest signage. And most of them are on the outskirts of town.
That bothers me a lot too about a lot of zombie movies and one of the things that annoyed me about World War Z. It’s not enough that the zombies don’t follow the rules of biology they also don’t follow the rules of physics. It always seemed to me that weapons designed not just to cut heads off but to cripple them would do very well. Since they no longer have higher brain functions simple traps seem like they would work very well in zombies. The only problem would be of there were so many they overwhelm the traps but then you could use napalm to burn them or crush them using heavy machinery. It seems to me the best place to hold out would be a large open air mine like in Northern Minnesota. To begin with there aren’t a lot of people around but in an open pit mine could hold up in the middle. Dig a series of trenches. You could easily see the zombie horde coming and watch them fall into the trenches. After the trenches are full come out with giant earthmoving equipment and crush and bury the zombies.
Trump could quell a zombie uprising with a Trump zombie rally. No problem. Or, perhaps he could direct the zombie uprising to take over the capitol, eat the VP, and assume power? The point is...there are options with Trump.
Get Bill Murray Adam Driver and Chloe Sevinghy to police the town. I hear Tilda Swinson is a good undertaker
Good point. Also, I feel like whether you're a "zombie" or not...eating nothing but human flesh probably isn't meeting your nutritional guidelines. Not to mention, we're not easy prey to capture...so if you're only eating human flesh you're probably not consuming enough calories per day to make it worth your while. That, combined with the already poor brain function and nutritional deficiency, is going to make it harder to hunt prey and exacerbate the problem until death.
You guys are getting way too sciencey with the feasibility of zombies. Nature is amazing in how it evolves and adapts. Look at suppressing your gag reflex. Back in the day it was a 1 in a million talent. Now every other woman on pornhub can swallow a sword. Just relax and accept the scenario. Don’t question it.
I'd head to the mountains. Resort towns are stocked full of supplies in low population areas. Lots of natural barriers and fortified buildings. Plenty of alcohol and weed.
Either headin north and bunking with Os....Or West, and bunkin with Buck Tough call... maybe we just all just rendezvous with Nook or Judoka in the midwest? EDIT: After extremely careful consideration, I'm heading east and bunking with Jontro. The zombies won't make it through the barrier of sticky.
I'll be somewhere in this area. I know a place that is isolated, has easily controlled topographic access points, fish and game, water, firewood, a windmill, and good shelter. Not too far away is an old fire lookout so I'll be able to see all around and set up a Ham radio. Fill up the back of the pickup with stuff from my garage and sheds, kill a few people for some meds, dodge the zombies for some bulk foods, grab some books/DVDs, pick up some portable solar panels, and after a short drive, I'd be set. It would take me 60-75 minutes in town to gather everything, a 20 minute drive in the open, and then I'd have forest cover. If you can find me and answer some Rockets trivia questions, I'll let you live and we can ride it out together. https://www.google.com/maps/@41.592854,-123.2823146,91910a,35y,356.95h,54.83t/data=!3m1!1e3
Also trying to hunt and eat other humans would be very low energy return for the rate of energy expended especially given that those humans are smarter than you and actively coming up with ways to keep you from eating them. I'll have to watch 28 Days Later but I would like to see a more scientifically plausible zombie movie where the infection was a very aggressive form of rabies. The actions of the zombies are completely driven by passing on the infection.
