Zombie Defense - dry moat?

[Roof-Daddy]

Seven Reasons Why a Zombie Apocalypse would fail thanks to Cracked.com

http://www.cracked.com/article_18683...l-quickly.html

Heh, zombies wouldn't stand a chance.

I like the last part:

And that's just from the civilian population; counting the military and police, we have another three million or so armed people, and instead of just handguns shotguns and hunting rifles, they have machine guns, combat shotguns, sniper rifles, assault rifles, sub-machine guns, grenade launchers and the occasional taser, not to mention the training to use them effectively. But why would they even bother? When they could just roll over swaths of zombies in tanks, blast them with cluster bombs and MOABs and mow them down with miniguns from the god damn Air Force that every zombie flick seems to forget about.

Yeah, never see much from the air force in a zombie flick, except at the end when it drops a big arse bomb and blows up a whole city.

You could probably end a zombiepocalypse in North America with a handful of Apache helicopters.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout

Seven Reasons Why a Zombie Apocalypse would fail thanks to Cracked.com

http://www.cracked.com/article_18683...l-quickly.html

Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy

Heh, zombies wouldn't stand a chance.

I like the last part:




Yeah, never see much from the air force in a zombie flick, except at the end when it drops a big arse bomb and blows up a whole city.

You could probably end a zombiepocalypse in North America with a handful of Apache helicopters.

or just tanks, that's the part that bugs me the most about zombie movies, The Walking Dead included. in the first episode the main guy comes across a seemingly fully functional tank in the middle of the street with a zombie soldier inside. how did he get bitten sitting inside a godamn tank? why did it stop in the middle of the street? would zombies really put up that much resistance against a 5-ton chunk of steel on treads?

any army in the world would be able to neutralize a zombie threat within the first few days of an outbreak

[Two Fivenagame]

Reading this thread and looking out at the snow covered world made me think...


what if you were really REALLY attracted to a Zombie?? What then?


Also, has anyone ever seen a Zombie film that takes place during the winter?

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Two Fivenagame

what if you were really REALLY attracted to a Zombie?? What then?

Write off oral sex in your relationship for ever.

And on the other end, ewwww wouldn't that like be necrophillia?

[afc wimbledon]

I propose the old school canadian solution, of course we would have to rename the place to

'Head Smashed in Zombie Jump'.

[SeeBass]

wouldn't a very large boat out in deep water be enough.

Say a nuclear aircraft carrier.

[Teh_Bandwagoner]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

or just tanks, that's the part that bugs me the most about zombie movies, The Walking Dead included. in the first episode the main guy comes across a seemingly fully functional tank in the middle of the street with a zombie soldier inside. how did he get bitten sitting inside a godamn tank? why did it stop in the middle of the street? would zombies really put up that much resistance against a 5-ton chunk of steel on treads?

any army in the world would be able to neutralize a zombie threat within the first few days of an outbreak

Edit: Just realized what I wrote below may be a spoiler. Has been changed to white.


Rumor in the Walking Dead thread is that biting isn't how the virus is spread, and that instead everyone in the world is already infected with the zombie virus. Biting just causes a severe infection which quickly kills you. So when the tank guy died (however it is that he died) he automatically resurrected as a zombie.

[burn_this_city]

I've been giving this a lot of thought. I think you'd have to line the moat with something flammable so they didnt pile up. Used tires, and straw would probably work, since gasoline ect evaporates you could prepare in advance and wait. I'd also try to work a cauldron of hot oil into the equation, hot flammable oil.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by SeeBass

wouldn't a very large boat out in deep water be enough.

Say a nuclear aircraft carrier.

What about food?

[Roof-Daddy]

I think a dry moat would work, depending on how many zombies were coming after you.

If you were out in the country, use a backhoe to build a 10 foot wide, 12 foot deep moat all the way around your farm yard. Any straggling zombies trying to come and get you, would just fall in. Every morning you could go around the edge of the moat and light on fire any zombies that you find in it.

In a populated area where there could be huge hordes of them at once, it probably wouldn't work for long......and that's assuming you have time to dig it, even with heavy equipment.

or just tanks, that's the part that bugs me the most about zombie movies, The Walking Dead included. in the first episode the main guy comes across a seemingly fully functional tank in the middle of the street with a zombie soldier inside. how did he get bitten sitting inside a godamn tank? why did it stop in the middle of the street? would zombies really put up that much resistance against a 5-ton chunk of steel on treads?

Exactly. He was in the tank, trying to find a way out.

He should have been trying to figure out how start the sucker up, and drive it!!

[SeeBass]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

What about food?

plenty of room on deck to grow just need soil and storage of non perishables on board.

if only there was some kinda source of food you could get from water though but then again I am just fishing for ideas now.

I guess it also depends on how many people are on this aircraft carrier too.

[KTrain]

Originally Posted by Two Fivenagame

Also, has anyone ever seen a Zombie film that takes place during the winter?

'Dead Snow'. Zombie Nazis. Nothing else needs to be said. Except it's a foreign film.

[Kybosh]

Originally Posted by Two Fivenagame

Reading this thread and looking out at the snow covered world made me think...


what if you were really REALLY attracted to a Zombie?? What then?


Also, has anyone ever seen a Zombie film that takes place during the winter?

1) Check out the movie "Dead Girl" and be thoroughly disgusted.

2) The delightful romp, "Dead Snow".

[Traditional_Ale]

This thread is so full of win.




And is it weird that I'd totally nail this chick?

[Roof-Daddy]

I imagine operating an aircraft carrier would be a complex and nearly impossible task without the proper training of not only yourself, but a complete crew as well.

I like the idea, but if you find yourself involved in a zombie outbreak and happen upon an aircraft carrier just floating there, better hope the crew is still on it and actually lets you aboard.

[CaptainCrunch]

Just operating a nuclear reactor on an aircraft carrier would almost require a PHD in nuclear physics. Plus you'd have to be able to desalinate water, navigate the ship and do maintenance on every system.

Ships of that size and complexity have a crew of 5000 people for a reason.

[GreenLantern]

The best zombie defense is to roll with someone smaller, weaker, dumber and slower than you.

[SeeBass]

fine... then how about a big frikin boat then

[J pold]

Has anyone noticed that in a lot of zombie movies, they don't actually refer to them as zombies? Take The Walking Dead for example, walkers? What's with that? I mean if I saw one of those things the last thing I would call it is a walker, it's clearly a zombie.

Also, why don't zombies attack other zombies!? Seems to me this is an unanswerable question, right next to the meaning of life and all that. You'd think they'd start eating each other before starving to death, but that just brings up another question. Can zombies starve to death? I mean if they can be shot and killed shouldn't the susceptible to starvation as well?

[Teh_Bandwagoner]

Originally Posted by SeeBass

fine... then how about a big frikin boat then

No no no. Forget the boat. The key is to just eat the zombie before it eats you.