How well would you cope in the Zombie Apocalypse?

[bugwar]

And, in any case, if there were to be an apocalypse, my guess is that preppers are as doomed as anyone.

Interesting thought.

Why would someone who prepared for disaster be as doomed as ones who did not?

 

[Borachio]

Because an apocalypse isn't really your normal run of the mill disaster that anyone can sensibly prepare for?

I'm all for being prepared in case of unseasonal weather, or a short fall of triangle cut sandwiches. But my understanding is that we were talking about cataclysmic events. At the very least, a total breakdown in civilization.

My point is
1) This is a very unlikely event to happen.
2) Stockpiling guns and canned goods isn't really going to help. (It might, in the very short term, I'll grant you.)

Actually, fantasizing about civilization collapse, and what I'd do, is one of my regular pass-times in idle moments. But fantasy is what it is.

 

[bugwar]

My point is
1) This is a very unlikely event to happen.
2) Stockpiling guns and canned goods isn't really going to help. (It might, in the very short term, I'll grant you.)

1) It is not an unlikely event, it is impossible.
Having said that, please remember the original post.
It is a humorous note providing you with the chance to indulge your fantasy gene.

2) Stockpiles aren't meant to last long term.
They are just to get you through your transition period to the new reality.

 

[LamaGT]

Meh I guess my objective would be to find an uninhabited island or just land, but is there really anything even remotely good left out there?

 

[Borachio]

1) It is not an unlikely event, it is impossible.
Having said that, please remember the original post.
It is a humorous note providing you with the chance to indulge your fantasy gene.

2) Stockpiles aren't meant to last long term.
They are just to get you through your transition period to the new reality.

I'll grant you that a literal zombie apocalypse is very likely impossible. But I was taking it to refer to some grand collapse of civilization situation.

Allegorical-like?

 

[Wondering Kid]

Wondering, why would you abandon others of the really living, alive, non zombie undead sort? You do have to sleep. Nothing like having an amigo or three or a dozen that you can trust to watch your back while you are in dreamland being entertained by your sensuous dream senorita. If you are hunkered down waiting out the great zombie decomposition as Omega and I have determined will occur then one gun spitting out crucial head shots cannot compare to 5 or 10. Give me enough guys with enough guns and ammo and clear fields of fire and we'll become the worst nightmare the nightmarish zombies ever had. You think the zombies are a nightmare, you haven't seen this buckaroo with some steadfast amigos on a roll. Having a few hundred pounds of lead, a fuel source like a forest or a disused coal cellar still full of discarded dust and pieces, and a stack of boxes of dynamite from a quarry or mine and one guy could be making live rounds with spent brass while the others practice their marksmanship on the unliving brains of the undead. Problem solved.

Hah fella, it is clear to me now that you don't know a couple things about Peru. Unlike the US, gun ownership is really restricted. Civilians are not allowed to have handguns that use rounds more powerful than 9mm, or that have auto/burst fire mode. And no automatic or semi automatic shotguns either. Dynamite is almost impossible to get as well. Sure, you can get both guns and dynamite illegally but I'm not a criminal.
Nuhuh, if worst comes to pass; it will be all melee. In the extremely unlikely scenario I get to stumble upon a gun, I'd have to use it only on hostile survivors. Bullets would be hard to find, and thus too valuable to waste on infected. Houses here hardly ever have cellars. If any house has one at all. So yeah...

...And unless I get to escape Lima, I would not have clear fields of fire. Thus, melee all the way. Sure, I'd need to get a crew; but it is very unlikely it would comprise any of the people I care about. A rendezvous would involve a trek in the middle of a capital full of infected. Pretty much a one way trip. So yeah....

 

[CavLancer]

Well then, you've definitely got some issues to overcome. There is always vertical sanctuary. Zombies are terrifying, hungry, and now able to run you down, but they are still invariably stupid as a clump of sod. An ax can fill in until you find a gun but you have to hit hard enough to cleave the brain. The power will go down as the electric company workers either get bit or get out. No elevators, just stairwells. So get yourself up to the top of a high rise building with as much food as you can move quickly. Better an apartment complex where canned food will be available. Remember a lot of those folks are never coming home. After you toss all the furniture you can find down the stairwell search every apartment for a firearm, someone will have something tucked away with ammo too. Now that you are armed go up to the water tanks which should be near the roof and shut off every valve you can find.

Do a gathering and accounting of all the food in all the apartments. Likely you'll have company of those who were home when it started, those that didn't leave. Many will be waiting for loved ones to come home so you'll need to find a rope and some pulleys in whatever maintenance cabinets are around. Window washing gear would be great. You can use this to pull non infected up the outside of the building and past the blocked stairwell. I don't guess there will be any coming home but it will make the waiting loved ones better accept the blocked stairwell. You don't want anyone sneaking down to clear that while you're not looking.

Inventory everything, water food, ammo. Find the most clear headed and set them tasks in twos, such as guarding the stairwell. Ration the food and water. Find all the kitchen pots and set them on the roof to gather rain water. If you can find the leader pipes which will be under the roof's downspouts that could simplify things. Can cut out unneeded pipe and run a connection from the leader pipe directly to empty water tanks. There will be enough tanks to sustain the population of the building through any normal interruption in service so likely some of them will have drained.

Now just "hunker down".

Anyway I just have fun with this stuff, there will never be a zombie outbreak outside of Hollywood.

 

[Cutlass]

Why stockpile guns when the local sporting good stores do it for me? If most people die off quick, there will be plenty of guns and ammo lying around without having to, you know, pay for it in advance.

 

[El_Machinae]

The problem is that there's a marginal cost to preparing for the zombie apocalypse. I personally think that the odds of an extra-terrestrial invasion to be much higher than a zombie crisis, and so because I prep for the ET invasion preferentially, only some of my prep could be used during a zombie infestation. Ostensibly, one could prep in such a way as to have the preparations useful for both zombie and ET scenarios, I guess, but (as I said), I find the ET scenario more likely.

 

[bhsup]

Aliens are not going to be a thing. All we have to do is cough on them then run to our caves and wait. I don't think that would work with zombies.

 

[Borachio]

I fancy any civilization capable of interstellar space travel will have worked out how to handle a few bugs.


And if the history, on Earth, of more advanced civilizations interacting with others (or, rather, invading them) is anything to go by, we're doomed.

 

[El_Machinae]

Aliens are not going to be a thing. All we have to do is cough on them then run to our caves and wait. I don't think that would work with zombies.

Fair enough. I prefer the 'everything and the kitchen sink' approach when it comes to aliens. ... though I remember seeing a kitchen sink in one of the barricades constructed by the colonists of LV-426.

 

[Wondering Kid]

I fancy any civilization capable of interstellar space travel will have worked out how to handle a few bugs.


And if the history, on Earth, of more advanced civilizations interacting with others (or, rather, invading them) is anything to go by, we're doomed.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. Biology never ceases to amaze! Who knows, for all we know aliens could be like Mass Effect's Quarians. One cough and it's pretty much a one hit kill on them. And if their protection suits get a rupture, the it's game over...

On the second point, who knows? We might pull it off! Ethiopia survived the Scramble for Africa, the United States managed to become free from British dominance, Switzerland was never invaded by the Germans during both World Wars, Cuba somehow was not invaded even after the USSR (then Russia) left them... We must hang on to hope! Humanity, humanity!

 

[*****]

I think that any species that is advanced enough to achieve interstellar travel has probably advanced beyond violence as well. Which means that we just have to wait for them to teach us all the secrets of the universe, and then we can murder them and use their own space ships to launch a counter invasion, enslaving all their people back home as well. They'll never see it coming.

 

[Kyriakos]

 

[CavLancer]

Did you guys ever think of alien zombies? Huh? Ever think of that? Huh?

 

[Borachio]

Never. Not even now you come to mention it.

 

[CavLancer]

"Expect the unexpected." What could be more unexpected than an invasion of alien zombies? So, you should expect it because its unexpected.

 

[bhsup]

Did you guys ever think of alien zombies? Huh? Ever think of that? Huh?

Did a quick search, and sure enough it's been thought of!! Debating whether it's worth the $1.99 to rent.

Alien Zombie Invasion

The reviews are conflicting...

This movie was made pretty well. It looked great and the sound was good. Good zombie make up also. There are father and son characters that are really fun but then there are four d-bag campers who are very annoying. I wish the movie would have been 20 minutes shorter and cut the campers out completely. What really makes this movie shine though is the hot zombie sex scene. Rent this movie just for that!!

I don't know what movie the other reviewers watched, but this was a horrible movie. A waste of $1.99- "I could've had a V8".

 

[CavLancer]

Yeah, everything has been done before, VR. I started calling space aliens 'spaliens' over at WPC and was all proud of myself until I googled it.