(Survival Tips For The Zombie Apocalypse!) Anatomy and the Perfect (Undead) Headshot

Popular Mechanics ^ | December 3, 2010 | JOE PAPPALARDO

[DogByte6RER]

Ha, ha ... I like the reference to the Zombie Research Society @ http://www.zombieresearch.org/home.html

I bet they do lots of their field research in Haiti and/or at any Democrat Party function ...

[Christian Engineer Mass]

[DogByte6RER]

ping

[MissH]

I am a fan of this show - to bad it was only 6 episodes for the first season.

[wbill]

P4l

[woofie]

If shot in the groin how will a zombie respond?

[Prussianone]

So, we are back to that lemon-sized area in a frontal view, as depicted on many current targets available at local firing ranges throughout the U.S.?

[Hang'emAll]

This should do the trick on the frontal lobe.

[Vince Ferrer]

I watched the original episode on the internet, and liked it. The effect of the 1/2 woman zombie crawling across the park was very good.

I like zombie movies, but even in the suspension of disbelief mode, you don't need to worry about shooting them. all you have to do to escape them is hole yourself up for about a week or two. Zombies eat people, but can they digest them? How long can the undead possibly keep going before they decay too much? All you have to do is lock yourself in for a week with a jug of water and some crackers, and that's it. Not much movie material. Movie's like invasion of the body snatchers have a far better premise.

[MacMattico]

I really like The Walking Dead. Anyone know when season 2 starts? I can't understand why they're driving around in a 70’s Winnebago, though, with all of those empty vehicles to choose from! We had one that wasn't that reliable in the 80’s! Oh well it's TV. I'm waiting until that guy they left under the tree comes back to bite someone— he should have been put out of his misery. And the guy left on the roof, too. What is it with Zombies that I/ people like so much?

[Mongeaux]

Yeah they'd run out of steam pretty quick. This series is set in Georgia and judging by the drone of the Cicadas in the background, in high summer. Ever see a dead thing on the road in the summer heat? It's leather in 3 days. Those Zombies would be slim jims in a week.

And how do a bunch of lumbering unarmed dead people overwhelm an Abrams tank? Even assuming they could take out army bases on land, what about the navy? Where are the carrier battlegroups in the middle of the Pacific Ocean? Zombies couldn't touch them!

[statered]

I don’t know if it is zombies so much as it is the post apocalypical setting.

[Smokin' Joe]

I can't understand why they're driving around in a 70’s Winnebago, though, with all of those empty vehicles to choose from!

Pre-computerized ignition systems vehicles are easier for the shadetree mechanic to work on.

[MacMattico]

You’re probably right. I think people wonder if they could survive, what they’d do. And there’s also a lot of action and suspense mixed in. Seeing someone’s vision of a post apocalyptic world, if done right, always captures the imagination, too.

[MacMattico]

Never thought of that, good point! But there’s got to be something else out there they could drive! ( You can tell my level of mechanical ability, I guess I could change a tire, add fluids, charge a battery if I had too— just say it, typical woman :)

[Doomonyou]

PINGaROO

[RandallFlagg]

Ping! Thanks for the heads up, Doomonyou and DogByte6RER.

[RandallFlagg]

— just say it, typical woman :)

Ain't nothing typical about a woman who has an interest in the apocalyptic zombie outbreak scenario.
It's like a breath of fresh air.

[MissH]

I thought I read somewhere it will start back up in October ‘11.