Are You ready for the upcoming Zombie Apocalypse?

[Dazzler]

You better be. It's closer than ever.

This is old-ish news, but I can't help but excited and freaked out that scientists have reanimated dead tissue (in the form of a dead rat heart and possibly a dead pig heart) that can independently stay alive.

It's only a step away before we're battling it out with monstrous un-dead flesh eaters when our scientific folly has inevitably gone awry.

I'm looking forward to it.

--Dazz

[Pink Bat Maxine]

You better be. It's closer than ever.

This is old-ish news, but I can't help but excited and freaked out that scientists have reanimated dead tissue (in the form of a dead rat heart and possibly a dead pig heart) that can independently stay alive.

It's only a step away before we're battling it out with monstrous un-dead flesh eaters when our scientific folly has inevitably gone awry.

I'm looking forward to it.

--Dazz

I'm ready for invasion from space, but I'm behind schedule on my zombie attacks preperations.

[Dazzler]

I'm ready for invasion from space, but I'm behind schedule on my zombie attacks preperations.
Don't worry, ole pal.
The only thing you need to know is that when the zombie horde approaches, you throw yourself in front of it, allowing me a quick getaway.

You'll be FINE!

--Dazz

[Tobias March]

Thanks to Max Brooks we all know the place to be come the zombie apocalypse is an oil rig.

Personally I'm staying the hell away from Edinburgh for the rest of my life if this is a possibility....more graves than people there.

[Sally Sensational]

Wait, didn't Bill Cosby have something to say about a chicken heart that was kept alive in a jar?

Oh, and according to the internets testy-thingy, I have a 54% chance of surviving a zombie apocalypse. Although, I think my chances are better, because nowhere in the test could I put down that SK is my girlfriend and she is one hard chick! I wouldn't bet against her in favor of zombies for anything.

[cedardryad]

I've got the book and I'm so not ready. :(

[BlairH]

I've got the book and I'm so not ready. :(

The book can't be relied upon too much.

I have to admit, I am fairly ignorant when it comes to survival techniques and such. Most of the stuff featured in the book is alien to me. However, if there's one thing I do know, it's firearms.

The chapter on firearms is very poorly written, and the author clearly has little to no experience with fireams. Almost everything he says about the strengths and failings of each type of firearm is completely wrong.

Now, if the author can get firearms wrong, what else is wrong?

[Ben Morgan]

Good thing I'm already a zombie

[Alan Lynch]

Thanks to Max Brooks we all know the place to be come the zombie apocalypse is an oil rig.

Personally I'm staying the hell away from Edinburgh for the rest of my life if this is a possibility....more graves than people there.
Bah, nobody's going to rise out of graves unless they're really fresh. Bones can't move on their own, so fuck all those old dead folks.
The book can't be relied upon too much.

I have to admit, I am fairly ignorant when it comes to survival techniques and such. Most of the stuff featured in the book is alien to me. However, if there's one thing I do know, it's firearms.

The chapter on firearms is very poorly written, and the author clearly has little to no experience with fireams. Almost everything he says about the strengths and failings of each type of firearm is completely wrong.

Now, if the author can get firearms wrong, what else is wrong?
A scary thought indeed. The book isn't much practical use really; far too much reliance on you having endless funds to plough into buying land in the arctic or something.

I'm confident I'd survive a while at least. I've seen and read enough to know how best to get away and stay safe, and I'm a bit of a dick so saving loved ones isn't an issue. I'd me miserable, but alive. Success!

[Linkara]

My plan continues as it should.

When the zombie apocalypse comes... I'm going to be fighting the zombies. :D

In every zombie movie I've seen, the people who adopt a siege mentality and try to hole up some place waiting for rescue are the ones who get eaten. The people who are outside and actively trying to stop the zombies are the ones who survive (see: Night of the Living Dead, Shaun of the dead). The first goal is to establish a base of operations: easy, go to a Wal-Mart. They have food, clothing, battery-operated tools like heaters and whatnot, furniture, and most importantly - GUNS. Now, I'm already at a natural advantage against the zombies since I live in the coldest place on earth - Minnesota - so if the zombie apocalypse comes during the eight months of winter we seem to have around here, a good chunk will probably be killed off by exposure or whatnot. During spring or summer, we have the advantage of un-slippery roads to which we can maneuver around in cars and run over zombies or just rescue other survivors to bring to Fort Awesome (formerly: Wal-Mart).

[Chiroptera]

The only zombies that would actually exist would be the ones specifically reinanimated, since making a spreadable virus that reanimate flesh is still a hell of a long way off (and arguably still down right impossible, most likely not to ever be discovered within the next 50 or so years we probabyl have before it all goes to hell).

So am I ready for the 10 or so zombies that MIGHT get created and potentially break loose? Why yes, yes I am! Because scientists don't keep test subjects that are hostile, they're unsatisfactory for testing, thus any classic "zombie" i.e. reanimated flesh that naturally attacks any living organism, will likely be put down again within a short amount of time.

Any zombie that does get out will be rather stiff, shambling and slow moving, about as deadly as an infant who can't really walk yet and who's idea of biting is to numbly gum you with its toothless maw.
Since there will be a very finite amount of them I doubt I'd ever even see one.


Oh, and yeah I'm a spoiled sport who just likes ragging on the whoel zombie a apocolypse idea. :P


Now you wanna talk realistic and scary? Ask me if I'm ready for the next 30 years of life on our miserable little planet, as resources dwindle and over population reaches crisis limits, forcing mother nature to jump start some of the most recently discovered disease that we as a species have yet to build any strong natural or scientific immunities to.
That I am ready for. Oh, and as much as I love all my fellow YABS posters? If I see one've you lil' pissers anywhere near the territory I lay down when our civilization starts to collapse. . .?
Well, as the saying goes: "Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot again." ;)

[Major Comma]

I HATE zombies!
That is the final straw!
I am building a rocket ,
so that i may find a planet zombie free.
Anybody with me?

[Chiroptera]

I'll come, but I have a condition!
I must be allowed to bring a massive collection of bats so that we don't get killed horrendously by the horrible skin eating blood sucking insectoids we find on the planet!

What..? Come on we all know every alien planet is inhabited by violent skin eating blood sucking insectoid alien menaces who want to lay eggs in our gullets!