24th June 2005, 9:27 PM
If the living dead showed up, that many people could NOT get infested without everyone knowing. They'd be lucky to get as far as 15% infestation. A single CITY couldn't get infested without everyone on the planet knowing about it within the hour.
Hell, an outbreak of the flu makes headlines.
In real life, a zombie outbreak would only really be a major threat if it only targetted a creature the majority of people wouldn't even notice, and it didn't even behave very differently from normal (perhaps a fly) and suddenly, and simultaneously, all instances of the virus mutated to target humans. Okay, check that, it just ain't happening.
Total world domination by zombies is just very unlikely unless the zombies simply and truly can't be stopped by any human means.
Hell, an outbreak of the flu makes headlines.
In real life, a zombie outbreak would only really be a major threat if it only targetted a creature the majority of people wouldn't even notice, and it didn't even behave very differently from normal (perhaps a fly) and suddenly, and simultaneously, all instances of the virus mutated to target humans. Okay, check that, it just ain't happening.
Total world domination by zombies is just very unlikely unless the zombies simply and truly can't be stopped by any human means.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)