I want to know your thoughts, Is the zombie apocalypse plausible? Or is it simply wild fiction?

My own stance on the subject is that the concept of a zombie outbreak is possible.

If someone was really mad enough to try alter the human gene, I'd say its possible.

I used to doubt the entire idea. But, after reading this, http://www.cracked.com/article_15643_5-scientific-reasons-zombie-apocalypse-could-actually-happen.html, I think it's entirely plausible.

The fuck.... Can this quick.

speaking of zombie apocalypses.
http://forums.stickpage.com/showthread.php?33254-GE-Zombie-Sim

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speaking of zombie apocalypses.
http://forums.stickpage.com/showthread.php?33254-GE-Zombie-Sim

I don't think this can help to see which proposal is more possible...... -.-"

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I used to doubt the entire idea. But, after reading this, http://www.cracked.com/article_15643_5-scientific-reasons-zombie-apocalypse-could-actually-happen.html, I think it's entirely plausible.

Well aren't you impressionable.

Rats are naturally afraid of the way a cat smells. Toxoplasmosis gondii causes cysts to grow in the brain and if they grow in certain areas, that fear can be reduced or even reversed. It doesn't "take over" the brain and there's no way to genetically engineer it to affect humans, at least not in a way that makes them appear zombie-like.

Neurotoxins can do virtually anything, some affect the brain in ways that mimic zombie behaviors, but none of the things they mentioned are dangerous and all of those toxins already exist and affect humans. Datura, that's jimson weed. Eat it and you become delirious for up to a few days at most, if you don't kill yourself. Nothing convincing about that one at all.

Mad Cow Disease is a prion disease. Prions can't be transmitted through the air, they can already be transmitted by blood-to-blood contact, and there's no real reason it would be found in the "food supply", so it's not about to cause an apocalypse. Oh, and there have only been 3 cases of mad cow in the United States, and only 280 confirmed cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease worldwide. It also doesn't induce blind "rage" like they say it does.

Is it getting clear that this is just sensationalist entertainment yet? Nothing about that article makes it seem "entirely plausible".

FINALLY someone who doesn't buttfuck cracked! Faith In humanity has been restored.

Edit: Seriously though, I'm sick and tired of the majority of the internet thinking every single lick of Information that site spits out Is solid. It's, and I quote "just sensationalist entertainment" with maybe a few platitudes thrown In to string things together.

Unless he just thought it was relevant, without actually thinking about it, but then I don't see why you'd say it's "entirely plausible".

Then again this section used to demand a higher level of intellectual discourse than the other areas of the forum, apparently we decided to stop caring about that at some point. Maybe I just missed the memo, but linking to a cracked article in a debate is fucking stupid either way.

Somehow all these posts remind me of Plants Vs Zombies

I believe a prominent characteristic of a "zombie" is that the person has to be dead. Unless science has found a way for resurrection, the answer is obvious.

I reiterate myself, trash this thread, or move it to the general discussion so it can retain it's comedic value.

well a scientest could go bad and experament on the dead

I see your point. Then these evil scientists will find a way to restore the rotting brain of human carcasses and create a zombie army to take over the world. The only scientist who would do this are the ones who printed out their degrees from google images.

Geez. Exilement was spot on.

I agree that death itself is incurable, but there is always the possibility of a virus creating "Zombies", not necessarily dead, but also not necessarily alive either.
Think of the zombie as a virus itself, existing in the grey area between living and not, to be classified as "Alive" an organism must have certain traits, one of which being the ability to reproduce. Viruses cannot reproduce for themselves but instead need a host, just like a zombie; they can't go out meet a nice female/male zombie, get drunk and end up with a baby z the next morning. Instead, the original reproduces by inserting his/her DNA to be copied by the host and so on and so forth.
When you think about it in this way, at least in my opinion, it is plausible but not guaranteed.