2nd July 2005, 6:08 PM
No, it wouldn't be ignored if they actually attacked.
I think that's where we differ. I have good reason to believe it would immediatly be seen for what it is the second they analyzed the bodies. A silly teenager tells people but no one believes them situation is not going to occur.
I just have to ask exactly how this spreads into graveyards by the way. How does an airborn virus get into coffins deep underground? Society doesn't like a corpse, namely thanks to OTHER infections they tend to carry, so it's not like you can find too many just lying around.
Watch the news, truly fake stuff gets publicised as reality all the time. Now if a zombie actually DID come out of the grave, do you really think no one would notice? The very first thing that would happen would be they would attack someone, and the fact that they won't let up at all would immediatly tell you it's not a prank, this person is at least insane. Calling the police, they WOULD show up on reports of a crazy person attacking people and NOT letting up or running away. The police would end up having to put the guy down... um... back down. The police would immediatly have to examine this corpse, and guess what? They are going to find stuff that's going to get the interest of the scientific community. This whole thing is going to take a few months, but the end result is they find out exactly what they are dealing with via experimentation and warn everyone. Depsite crazy conspiracy wackos, the reality is scientists are terrible at keeping secrets.
I think that's where we differ. I have good reason to believe it would immediatly be seen for what it is the second they analyzed the bodies. A silly teenager tells people but no one believes them situation is not going to occur.
I just have to ask exactly how this spreads into graveyards by the way. How does an airborn virus get into coffins deep underground? Society doesn't like a corpse, namely thanks to OTHER infections they tend to carry, so it's not like you can find too many just lying around.
Watch the news, truly fake stuff gets publicised as reality all the time. Now if a zombie actually DID come out of the grave, do you really think no one would notice? The very first thing that would happen would be they would attack someone, and the fact that they won't let up at all would immediatly tell you it's not a prank, this person is at least insane. Calling the police, they WOULD show up on reports of a crazy person attacking people and NOT letting up or running away. The police would end up having to put the guy down... um... back down. The police would immediatly have to examine this corpse, and guess what? They are going to find stuff that's going to get the interest of the scientific community. This whole thing is going to take a few months, but the end result is they find out exactly what they are dealing with via experimentation and warn everyone. Depsite crazy conspiracy wackos, the reality is scientists are terrible at keeping secrets.
"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)