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Zombies!
- Thread starter Sean S
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Down at the pub with some nice brew.
Come to think of it, that's almost always a good place to be.
Come to think of it, that's almost always a good place to be.
Take a boat to an oceanic oil rig. They are decently stocked and you can fish for food and purify your own water. Plus, even if a zombie happens to fall in the water and float out to the rig, they can't climb. You are few stories above sea level.
The best way to defeat the zombies, and I have been formulating this plan for a while, is robots. We already have remote control bomb robots and planes, so you get tons of people who can operate them to a remote bunker somewhere, and you start the slow process of using the robots (with mounted weapons) to eradicate the zombie threat, while saving survivors. No mistaken casualties needed when you have zombie-proof robots. Then, when the threat has been significantly reduced, you send out armored, zombie-proof vehicles to start the clean-up process.
And that's my plan.
The best way to defeat the zombies, and I have been formulating this plan for a while, is robots. We already have remote control bomb robots and planes, so you get tons of people who can operate them to a remote bunker somewhere, and you start the slow process of using the robots (with mounted weapons) to eradicate the zombie threat, while saving survivors. No mistaken casualties needed when you have zombie-proof robots. Then, when the threat has been significantly reduced, you send out armored, zombie-proof vehicles to start the clean-up process.
And that's my plan.
I've read the zombie survival guide as well, and it looks like my best bet is some warehouses in the local dockyards. Big iron perimeter, plenty of food shipments around, high windows, few entrances (that are all solid). I can even get a boat there.
I just have to survive the journey :S
An oil rig would be better, but living so far from the north sea and having to contend with rust from that brine would be killer.
I just have to survive the journey :S
An oil rig would be better, but living so far from the north sea and having to contend with rust from that brine would be killer.
Ft. Wayne, IN. They'd never even be noticed and would be forced to get a job like all of the rest of us zombies.
Eastover Swamp here in South Carolina...no one & nothing around for miles, except for fresh water, fish, deer, turkeys, and wild boar. Wilderness survival is taught at a very young age in my family.
OK, but I still think you would need a shotgun or something - a gun that is going to punch a hole big enough to actually destroy the brain.
I'd rather have one looking up at me than getting up to where I am
The way I see it, these things are dead and have very little muscle control under their own power. Climbing a few stories of an oil rig would be very very tough for them if they even figured out how to do it. Depending on how much technology we could recover using the boat we used to get to this rig, defenses could be used to prevent any "accidents" from happening. Minefields and netting, or maybe even just a simple bell attached to the ladder to make noise when something climbs up.
Getting to the rig is the problem, I know, but if this situation came about, I think I'd be pretty desperate to get to the safest place possible.
The other question is "what kind of zombies are these?" Are they Romero-esque, in that whoever dies just becomes a zombie because of some airborne virus? Or is zombification passed thru a bite? Are they head-shot killable or do you have to disintegrate them to kill them completely?
I get really really bored during the day and this is mostly the stuff I think about
If task was complicated, like negotiating a relatively smooth cliff face that only an experienced rock climber could scale, then I'd say the zombies wouldn't be able to get up it. But if it was a relatively easy structure, say like scaffolding with plenty of gripping points, then I'd say the zombies would be able to scale that without too much hassle.
Another way of looking at it is the difference between a zombie trying to climb up a coconut tree, versus say a broad oak tree.
You have to be careful when using flame throwers to kill zombies, as the fire will not kill them instantly like a headshot will. So, while the fire will eventually put them down, until it does, rather than a horde of hungry zombies, you're now dealing with a horde of hungry zombies that are fully engulfed in flame!
