Can Zombies exist or not?
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ZombieDroid said:Hey,
In social studies we have to do a dialectical essay on a topic with opposing sides. Naturally, I chose to write about 'Zombies: Is it possible for them to exist, or not?' I found alot of information about how zombies can, scientifically, exist, but none about how, scientifically, they cannot exist. Does anyone know any good websites, links or ideas? I REAAAAALLLY need help
Have this one for free. Give rabies a few thousand years, hypothetically, it could mutate to the point that the victims could live longer in their deranged, bitey state. That could be classified as being a zombie.
Well technically speaking they are both infected unless the Head Crabs kill their victims like the Flood do first then they are zombies.Levi93 said:
I think the way dead rising did it was almost plausible; a parasitic hive mind that has a (well, many, but first to the brain wins) tiny larva enter the host through a bite, (larvae in the blood/saliva on the teeth, I suppose) swim up to the brain, say "assuming control," and become a queen in development. From there, I think it produces it's own "hive" of larva and sends them throughout the body attatching to nerves and manipulating movement on the queen's whims. When the queen fully develops, it gives the signal to it's babies to tear open the host's head, I guess, hence the zombies standing around clawing at their own scalps every so often.
From here things make even less sense, because it seems the adult queen's only way out is to have the host (and consequently, all the larvae) killed. Then they...er... wait for a player character to put them in a jar and throw them at younger queens, (I've never seen queens in the free-living phase of development do anything but buzz about waiting for horrid, glass-breaky death to claim them) apparently sending a violently potent distress signal, causing the young queens (Ken held one in plain sight in DR 1, I think) to burst from the host's head and, at night, turn neon green, (in spite of zombies' eyes turning red, but oh, well) and lunge at non-infected people until they die of exposure or are stepped on.
In Dead Rising 2,
Most (around 90%, I'd say) is speculation on my part, all the games seem to directly tell you is "magic wasp makes you zombie," but theorizing and overanalysis are more fun than answering survivor's calls for help, I find.
From here things make even less sense, because it seems the adult queen's only way out is to have the host (and consequently, all the larvae) killed. Then they...er... wait for a player character to put them in a jar and throw them at younger queens, (I've never seen queens in the free-living phase of development do anything but buzz about waiting for horrid, glass-breaky death to claim them) apparently sending a violently potent distress signal, causing the young queens (Ken held one in plain sight in DR 1, I think) to burst from the host's head and, at night, turn neon green, (in spite of zombies' eyes turning red, but oh, well) and lunge at non-infected people until they die of exposure or are stepped on.
In Dead Rising 2,
they fill the place with some kind of growth accelerant, causing queens to grow to at least "leaping larvae" stages, which I guess gives them more control over the host. The "gassed zombies" showed heightened strength and aggression, plus the freakish tumors (which I think were the queens not housed in the brain, supporting my earlier guess that they exist in most every vein of the host) found protuding from the flesh. When you kill a gas zombie, it seems to have a chance at spawning a queen or two that slither away like worms, wingless and not fully formed.
Most (around 90%, I'd say) is speculation on my part, all the games seem to directly tell you is "magic wasp makes you zombie," but theorizing and overanalysis are more fun than answering survivor's calls for help, I find.
