How would you survive a zombie apocalypse?

[King Alboin]

Human sense of smell is our weakest sense and compared to other animals, it's atrociously poor. We don't depend on it for anything and over the past hundred thousand years has evolved to what it is now. Zombies wouldn't all of a sudden magically have an amazing sniffer, it would be worse than humans because of the decay and degradation of their bodies.

it is our weakest sense, but not. your nose picks up things that you dont even realize you are sensing. the brain determines what's what. Feromones are highly complex and diverse. some are strong, and some are not, but that is what the brain has to decide, and decide whether you should be sensing them. like pain, too much pain and the brain will shut it out, or like a heart attack. there are no pain nerves in heart tissue, so the brain must let you know that the heart is in stress, and therefore issues a deep pain somewhere, could be your arm, could be your chest. The brain decides.

Also if you state that they can not smell us, because of degrading sinuses, then the same holds true for the rest of their perceptions. meaning they have little to none.

so, then how do they sense a live human, and know the difference between us and a tree?

we do rule out magic, or the supernatural, or even memory

It is my conclusion that they pick up on the feromones that we emit

[Fresh420]

Zombies smell flesh...they can hear and see still and smell! dur

[dabest]

Zombies smell flesh...they can hear and see still and smell! dur

yes but just because they CAN dosen't mean that they see or smell WELL so they couldn't see or smell you from say 2-3 miles away maybe less

[rasterbee]

I'm sorry King, but you're just not thinking about it in the right manner.

Covering themselves in blood and guts didn't change their scent. It just added the scent of the undead. Perfume doesn't cover BO, it just adds to the aroma. The reason Rick and Glenn weren't attacked was because they looked undead and acted undead, it had nothing to do with smell. I refer back to when Rick & Co. were hiding under cars, zombies walked mere feet away yet weren't tempted by any smells. Kirkman, the creator of the comic and the tv show, specifically mentioned issue on The Talking Dead and refuted the idea that zombies have a good sense of smell. Their sense of smell is worse than ours, and ours is terrible. You couldn't smell someone hiding under a car, why should zombies be able to?

[King Alboin]

Raster, Okay, I'll pick up that point of contention, at a later time, to ask you this, now:

If you contend that if their smellers are rotted out, I contend then that their hearing and sense of judgment is also. I am surprised they have balance.

So, what is it that they sense us by?


Fresh? man what are you three? four years old? Raster is correct, you dont add constructively to this conversation. Will you please grow up and quit acting like you need a diaper change! Some people's kids, I swear. SHEEESH!!!

[rasterbee]

I'm not arguing that smell is the only sense that degrades, yes they all should/will. But since smell is already far less powerful than our sense of sight and hearing, it would be less usable much quicker.

And again, can you smell if there is someone hiding under your truck? Even if they have rank ass BO....no, you can't.

[Fresh420]

blah king..you think you're the only one that can speak their mind? no i think not im hear to see and speak what i want about Zombies you got a problem with it take it up with the MODs...and diaper changing what are you three? does it look like i'm whining? i'm just speaking my mind is all saying what i think is all..and to be real Zombies would never excists...they are figments of others imaginations fake fake fake..in any case they we're real you would diff be the first to die...you think you know the highways because your a trucker? get over yourself buddy highways would be more diff then they are today thank you come again...big rig small rig you would not survive in a truck! lets see yoy go off roading with a Semi don't think you will last long so quit crying get out of your semi and walk and get eaten..Taha



..they may not be able to see or hear or smell.. but they can if they couldn't then they would be walking into walls and cars.. and what ever else is in the way...so in a way they can still sense because when they see a human they turn around and run or walk towards them...

[King Alboin]

^I rest my case. '-.-'

I'm not arguing that smell is the only sense that degrades, yes they all should/will. But since smell is already far less powerful than our sense of sight and hearing, it would be less usable much quicker.

And again, can you smell if there is someone hiding under your truck? Even if they have rank ass BO....no, you can't.

Starting with the last first.

I can smell all kinds of things under my truck, tis why precautions must be observed when doing a walk around pre-trip safety inspection.

In WD, if you observed, that after they gutted that Zomb up and goo'd theirselves with it's entrails, they walk out, yes acting like Zombies, but also smelling like them too. Once it rained, it started to wash off the entrails and the dead smell, and the Zombies, who probably were not paying close attention to Kirkman's protocol, went over and "sniffed" Glenn. Then got all excited and wanted to feeeeeeed. His Zombie imitation no longer was working and his scent caught the ire of that Zomb.

So it is my assertion that hiding under cars would result in two things:

One) The smell of oil and undercarriage may have masked the scent, along with out of sight out of madula oblangata.

or

Two) The continuity of the plot protocols were not strictkly observed, and the director had to get his group to a point to where they could go chase after the little girl, for "ooh ah" and "on no's" effect. In my view, a plot fail.

Let's view this from a scientific perspective.

Take the notion, that a ZA is possible. What are, or would be the characteristics of a real live dead Zombie?

Well for one they are dead, and therfore decomposing, rotting away with every minute that goes by.

That means that their eyes are rotting away. Now I have observed that once an eye rots, the lens of the eye ball becomes opaque, and mullied. the physics of light travel itself is block in its refractory, and therefore cannot be focus'd on the retina. [cataracs]

The brain, or what's left of it, can not distiquish anything. In a Zomb's mind it probably would look like a bunch of lighten bolts amongst a field of bright light.

K ... so the eyes are gone, worthless, useless.

Next

The ears are shot, those three little bones {The 3 bones of the middle ear * Maleus - hammer * Incus - anvil * Stapes - stirrup; ref: google}
that are attached to the eardrum, [even if that is intact] are also rotting, and the tendonous sinew holding them together would no longer function as a working sensory perceptor.

k ... so the ears are gone, worthless, useless.

That leaves, the sense of smell, and the sense of touch.

Both of these I would suggest would still have a quantifiable use for the Zomb dude or dudette.

so unless Kirkland can come up with a way for his Zombies to perceive their lunch, besides using hearing and eyesight, and forego the premise that they are not "bloodhounds" then Kirkland can kiss my bisquits.

Real live dead Zombies would use smell, for it would be their second to last resort, the last being touch.

For I doubt that being dead, and then reanimating, would give a Zombie special powers of sensory perception.

I could conceivably concede to a kindof sixth sense, like Mindar, kindof radar of the mind. Being that the infection virus itself would add some chemical to highten the electrical field perception receptors, in that part of the brain that is left. I could see that happening.

[acer5200]

blah they didn't remove my post so i'm guessing it was fine:-)

It was edited so no, no it was not.

blah king..you think you're the only one that can speak their mind? no i think not im hear to see and speak what i want about Zombies you got a problem with it take it up with the MODs...and diaper changing what are you three? does it look like i'm whining? i'm just speaking my mind is all saying what i think is all..and to be real Zombies would never excists...they are figments of others imaginations fake fake fake..in any case they we're real you would diff be the first to die...you think you know the highways because your a trucker? get over yourself buddy highways would be more diff then they are today thank you come again...big rig small rig you would not survive in a truck! lets see yoy go off roading with a Semi don't think you will last long so quit crying get out of your semi and walk and get eaten..Taha

..they may not be able to see or hear or smell.. but they can if they couldn't then they would be walking into walls and cars.. and what ever else is in the way...so in a way they can still sense because when they see a human they turn around and run or walk towards them...

Blah this, blah that, blah blah blah.

Who are you, Dracula?

[Fresh420]

who are you acer? king of the world? blah blah yes i may be dracula.. blah