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Title: The Zombie Survival Guide
Post by: prezhorusin04 on December 02, 2006, 05:07:02 PM
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The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most effective defense tactics and weaponry, ways to outfit your home for a long siege, and how to survive and adapt in any territory or terrain.

Top 10 Lessons for Surviving a Zombie Attack

1. Organize before they rise!
2. They feel no fear, why should you?
3. Use your head: cut off theirs.
4. Blades don’t need reloading.
5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair.
6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it.
7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike.
8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert!
9. No place is safe, only safer.
10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.

Don’t be carefree and foolish with your most precious asset—life. This book is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now without your even knowing it. The Zombie Survival Guide offers complete protection through trusted, proven tips for safeguarding yourself and your loved ones against the living dead. It is a book that can save your life.
Title: Re: The Zombie Survival Guide
Post by: Phantom X on December 02, 2006, 10:05:52 PM
Prez, are there any rumors floating around about a substance (germ, bacteria, gas, ect) that the government is developing that will result in a zombie rampage?
Title: Re: The Zombie Survival Guide
Post by: Zak Roy Yoballa on December 03, 2006, 11:44:12 AM
That book has been out a while.  I've read it and really liked it.  The very best 'dead-pan' humor I've read.  It does have a lot of practicle survivalist info too.  Did you know that the author is the son of Mel Brooks?  I think he even worked for Saturday Night Live for a bit (as a writer).  He is supposed to a sequel coming out in the near future.

According to this book it is a virus.  If you visit the Federal Vampire and Zombie agency website, they think it is man made. 

ZRY
Title: Re: The Zombie Survival Guide
Post by: prezhorusin04 on December 07, 2006, 08:57:53 PM
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Prez, are there any rumors floating around about a substance (germ, bacteria, gas, ect) that the government is developing that will result in a zombie rampage?

The book states it as a virus called "Solanum", which works to travel through the bloodstream with the initial starting point of the brain. It causes the brain to work as a independent organ and organism, not in need of nurtients, oxygen or water. It causes all bodily functions to cease besides the core impulse to devour living flesh. It is still unknown as to why it causes this particular feature, the consumption of living meat, but might be related to feeding the "alien" virus within the brain.

In "Day of the Dead" it is stated that the "R-complex" of the human brain is being stimulated, and all other higher cognitive memory and thought processes cease besides the primitive core of or consciousness, which is to hunt for food. The "Reptilian Complex" portion of the brain is another name for this REAL part of our human anatomy. Though this film doesn't get into the virus or mutation that causes this advanced stimulation of the R-Complex, it was the first to try and explain the reasons behind the "zombie outbreak".

In the "Return of the Living Dead" movies, it is claimed that this "virus" was actually a military nerve agent called Trioxen 245, which would reanimate dead bodies (and stimulate the R-Complex which would cause severe cannibalistic tendancies).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trioxin_(Return_of_the_Living_Dead)

In REAL LIFE, nothing such as Trioxen 245, or Solanum is reported to exist, though there have been cryogenic experiments which bring back "zombie dogs" and other test subjects. But, in all likelyhood, while it might be impossible to reanimate corpses for the use of military purposes or weaponry, it probably wouldn't be so difficult to create a virus such as the one explored in the film "28 Days Later", which reverts people to their most primitive and animalistic tendancies.

There very well could be a secretive, and highly infectious 'RAGE/INSANITY VIRUS'.. Which would manifest as extremely violent tendencies, an "inhuman" boost to adrenaline functions, and an inability for the sensory organs to recognize or register a person's pain threshold.. Bullets would kill these ordinary people, but they might not feel the pain as their sensory nervous system has been shut down. The electrical currancies and synapse that causes human memory functions, would be wiped clean, and instead the parts of the brain dedicated to anger, hatred, violence, paranoia and survival would be chemically amplified.

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The very best 'dead-pan' humor I've read.

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Title: Re: The Zombie Survival Guide
Post by: Zak Roy Yoballa on December 08, 2006, 11:10:45 AM

There very well could be a secretive, and highly infectious 'RAGE/INSANITY VIRUS'.. Which would manifest as extremely violent tendencies, an "inhuman" boost to adrenaline functions, and an inability for the sensory organs to recognize or register a person's pain threshold.. Bullets would kill these ordinary people, but they might not feel the pain as their sensory nervous system has been shut down. The electrical currancies and synapse that causes human memory functions, would be wiped clean, and instead the parts of the brain dedicated to anger, hatred, violence, paranoia and survival would be chemically amplified.


Sounds like my family reunion!!
Title: Re: The Zombie Survival Guide
Post by: Moloch on December 08, 2006, 06:27:23 PM
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Title: Re: The Zombie Survival Guide
Post by: Zak Roy Yoballa on December 09, 2006, 11:25:49 AM
The zombie or survivalist genre?
Title: Re: The Zombie Survival Guide
Post by: prezhorusin04 on December 13, 2006, 09:24:32 PM
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If none of you have read 'Cell' by Stephen King I suggest you do so. He took this genre and put a spin to it that so far as I know is totally unique.

Cell wasn't bad, but it wasn't what I was expecting from a Stephen King "zombie" story. But, it was still pretty good...

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Sounds like my family reunion!!

 *<:)
Title: Re: The Zombie Survival Guide
Post by: ZombiesRus on February 03, 2007, 08:55:07 AM
I have read thwe book before.  It states zombies do not really have nightvision.  Is this true?  i always thought they had it with unbearing hearing.  Maybe.  Maybe not. 
Title: Re: The Zombie Survival Guide
Post by: Lord Pisces luffy on February 13, 2007, 02:06:26 PM
I too have read this book.  It even tells of spotted zombies in the world.
Title: Re: The Zombie Survival Guide
Post by: DrowGypsy on March 12, 2007, 08:12:32 AM
Top 10 Lessons for Surviving a Zombie Attack

 prezhorusin04- Blades don’t need reloading.  
i don't know about you, but i don't want to get close to any of those buggers, but if it gets down to the knitty gritty, i'll take both guns and swords

 prezhorusin04- Get out of the car, get onto the bike
i can't see how a bike is any safer



Title: Re: The Zombie Survival Guide
Post by: tyrant003 on June 27, 2007, 07:13:35 PM
you wait someday the government will accidently unleash a bacteria that reanimates living corpses and infects the living and the world will go into complete and total utter hell.
Title: Re: The Zombie Survival Guide
Post by: zombiewatcher on March 08, 2008, 12:13:52 PM
the zombie survival guide is definitely entertaining, and has some pretty good advice for battling the undead. however, if you want something awesome to read, check out his follow up novel, World War Z, it rocked. some of the best zombie fiction i've ever read.
Title: Re: The Zombie Survival Guide
Post by: Dave_Dunwoody on March 24, 2008, 02:47:25 AM
I liked the flat-out serious tone Brooks used with this one. I haven't read WWZ yet, though.
Title: Re: The Zombie Survival Guide
Post by: Raziel on March 24, 2008, 10:00:10 AM
seriously how is a bike safer than a car???

and if they require thier brains to keep functioning, wouldn't a stun baton w/ an electric current stop em,?


Title: Re: The Zombie Survival Guide
Post by: NightSeeker on July 09, 2008, 01:58:20 PM
seriously how is a bike safer than a car???

 I guess the logic behind that, is that a bike won't run out of gas.  Although personally, if I'm expecting a zombie infestation at some point, I'd prefer to get a Subaru Impreza WRX with welded AND riveted steel armor plating , equiped with: spare gasoline (good for fuel or torching zombies); non-perishible foods; medical kit; hollow-point and fragmenting ammo; empty bottles, rags and old motor oil (for molotov cocktails); pump shotgun; .45 revolver; .45 semi-auto; machete; large knife; multi-tool; sleeping bag; blanket; elecrtic blanket; pillow... that's all I can think of right now.




and if they require thier brains to keep functioning, wouldn't a stun baton w/ an electric current stop em,?

   You'd still have to get too close with a stun baton, and you have no idea how long it'd knock them out. At least with a machete or sword you know they're dead.  I'd prefer a few sticks of dynamite, myself. Sure some of their upper bodies might be pulling along... but they crawl/drag slower than they walk, and you'd get a lot more of them.
 
Title: Re: The Zombie Survival Guide
Post by: Raziel on July 09, 2008, 08:28:22 PM
Nay, you need an neutron bomb........ and several hundred miles to detonate it from............ maybe you'd just need super powers...... i heard Tokyo is building a Giant mecha. crazy Japaneses scientists ...........
Title: Re: The Zombie Survival Guide
Post by: NightSeeker on July 09, 2008, 08:37:14 PM
I was thinking more accessibly. How would you get past the security to get the bomb, even supposing all the people in the silo are gone? Or what if they're all zombies now? You'd still need everything else just to get through them and get to the bomb.  Using C-4 in the facility might kill YOU before you can get to the control room. Hmmm....you could rig up a liquid nitrogen gun, which would deep freeze them, then you could just smash them to pieces. Somehow, I don't think even zombies would be immune to being flash frozen solid.
Title: Re: The Zombie Survival Guide
Post by: Raziel on July 09, 2008, 08:41:58 PM
zombies arn't immune to diseases right? Bio and chemical weapons!
Title: Re: The Zombie Survival Guide
Post by: NightSeeker on July 10, 2008, 01:28:41 AM
Well, I guess that depends on what kind of zombie you're talking about. Zombies created by viral contagion might be susceptible (though said virus might attack any other biological agents that attempt entry, after all, what's the use in engineering a virus that would be so easily defeated). Or created by the 'Zombie cocktail' featuring Carribean Blowfish poison. Chemical agents might work on them, since they are alive.  Actual (mystically/magically risen) undead zombies might not be sisceptible because:  1) they're already dead, so there's not brain or nervous system activity to disrupt; and 2) as true undead entities, they are probably in a constant state of decelerated decomposition, which means that they are constantly teeming with all sorts of nast bacteria and viruses that would kill the living. The second deadliest bite in the world, after that of the Komodo Dragon, is the bite of a living human being. The human mouth conntains 23 kinds of bacteria, which is about 18 more than dogs. Imagine how much and what kind of bacteria is in just the mouth of a rotting, animated corpse.  Not to mention the kinds of bacteria to be found in said animated corpses stomach, liver, kidneys, intestines...
And as for chemical agents, seeing as how they have mystical/magical energies coursing through their bodies, and none of the conventional bio-electric impulses, I don't think chemical agents would have anything (brain function, nervous systems, etc.) available to disrupt.
Title: Re: The Zombie Survival Guide
Post by: i am not infected on September 24, 2008, 03:44:26 PM
We LIVE by this guide!  Check it out at- www.iamnotinfected.com (http://www.iamnotinfected.com)
Title: Re: The Zombie Survival Guide
Post by: Wraith on November 30, 2009, 10:03:17 AM
I believe they smell things out. No eyesight but also have very good hearing.  Die zombies! :gun: