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Or zombies ripping humans litterally apart. No idea where a dead body would take the strength from for that. Take the living dead for example: From what I unde

by hef19898 3y ago

Or zombies ripping humans litterally apart. No idea where a dead body would take the strength from for that. Take the living dead for example: From what I understood, it is the Wildfire virus that causes it, with everyone (I assume everyone who contracted it) turning upon death. As soon as people figure that out, every dead person is getting his brain stem severed. And there are not that many people dying, outside of war zones and such, for that to be a world ending problem. 28 days later, 28 weeks later is just bad, does mention that: when the rogue army officer states that the indected to build or tend fields, he rightly concludes that one can just wait until they starve or die of dehydration. Zombies should, unless one assumes some magic virus as in World War Z (the book, again), just rot away. Which posses another problem: how to deal with millions of contagious corpses lying around. Using the Black Death as a basis for how such things did play out in real life, would make for a really grim story. Of course, armed survivors scavanging the world has some more fun angles.

PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y ago
this is all true and it's fun to deconstruct these things. But it's also fun to just roll with it :)
pavel_lishin 3y ago
Aren't our muscles mostly limited by the brain deciding that we should definitely not apply enough strength to rip our own tendons off our bones? An infected "zombie" may not have such limiters. And a human being can survive for weeks without food, days without water.
- hef19898 3y ago
  Simple bio mechanics so: the leverage and overall force are the same in zombie body (ignoring voodoo magic) as they are in human one, intentional injuries and hoing beyond the pain limit nonwithstanding. And zombies are, again ignoring voodoo, well, rotting. That means less tensile strength of muscles and such. And even without all that, a himan cannot use his fingers and teeth to tear another human, well, we know the films. The human body simply lacks the necessary tools: claws and fangs. As the sibling pointed out, just rolling with all of that is also fun!
  - pavel_lishin 3y ago
    Now I want to read/watch a Zombie fiction where the zombies are everywhere, but so weak that they realistically can't harm you at all - other than infections from scratches.

PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y ago

this is all true and it's fun to deconstruct these things. But it's also fun to just roll with it :)

pavel_lishin 3y ago

Aren't our muscles mostly limited by the brain deciding that we should definitely not apply enough strength to rip our own tendons off our bones? An infected "zombie" may not have such limiters. And a human being can survive for weeks without food, days without water.

hef19898 3y ago
Simple bio mechanics so: the leverage and overall force are the same in zombie body (ignoring voodoo magic) as they are in human one, intentional injuries and hoing beyond the pain limit nonwithstanding. And zombies are, again ignoring voodoo, well, rotting. That means less tensile strength of muscles and such. And even without all that, a himan cannot use his fingers and teeth to tear another human, well, we know the films. The human body simply lacks the necessary tools: claws and fangs. As the sibling pointed out, just rolling with all of that is also fun!
- pavel_lishin 3y ago
  Now I want to read/watch a Zombie fiction where the zombies are everywhere, but so weak that they realistically can't harm you at all - other than infections from scratches.