• Question: Is a zombie appocolypse possible?

    Asked by jellyman to Amy, Grant, Martin, Shawn, Usman on 13 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Martin Archer

      Martin Archer answered on 13 Mar 2013:

      There are real life zombies in the animal kingdom – things that change your behaviour. Rabies for example makes animals mad and attack others to help spread it.

      In terms of whether an apocalypse could happen, some scientists have tried to model what the outcome would be. I seem to remember it depended on what type of zombies, slow ones I think would be easy to stop from taking over the world in the first place. Also they proved mathematically what we see in every zombie film, holing yourself up and hiding doesn’t work – you must fight!

    • Photo: Grant Kennedy

      Grant Kennedy answered on 13 Mar 2013:

      Nope, doctors have a hard enough job keeping people alive as it is, so worrying about them coming back to life (unlife?) isn’t going to be a problem!
      g

    • Photo: Amy Tyndall

      Amy Tyndall answered on 21 Mar 2013:

      I think I’d be useless in a zombie apocalypse! I’d be that guy in the movies who always dies first by doing something stupid 😀 (this is based on the fact that I suck at paintball, so I can’t imagine I’d be any better in a real-life [dead?!] scenario!)

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