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if zombies ever attacked how do you think you would prepare?
if an outbreak actually does occur , i have a shotgun, 2 swords , flashlights, and medical kit i've earned over the years of my 14 year life =)
If movie zombies could exist:
The number one issue here is "slow-movers" versus "fast-movers". Regardless of origin, the classic shambling zombie cannot run, is poorly coordinated, is unable to employ group tactics (other than the mob), and is a literal walking corpse unable to be destroyed save for catastrophic destruction of the brain, or neutralized by catastrophic damage to the body which renders it immobile. Since it is the brain (for the purposes of this discussion, we will be including the visual, auditory, tactile, and olfactory organs along with the brain), and the brain alone, which is the only organ remaining vital, it must be considered that in order for the body to move the musculature has to be getting two things: oxygen, and electrical impulse commands from the brain. Since the cardiopulmonary system no longer works, it must be surmised that whatever force has reanimated the zombie is supplying O2 to the brain and neuromusculature system alone. Ergo, the brain stays "alive", and commands the musculature to propel the body. Since the stomach and digestive tract (along with every other organ in the body save the brain and muscles) is dead, the zombie cannot process food. So why does it hunger for raw flesh and warm blood? Because of the oxygenated blood a fresh victim provides.
The animating force, or Z-factor, must provide O2 to the host in order to keep it hunting. If the host does not hunt successfully then the Z-factor starts breaking down the inert body tissues to free up whatever O2 it can find. This manifests to the zombies nerve centers as terrible, gnawing hunger.
However, it is a game the zombie will ultimately lose. As prey becomes harder to catch, the Z-factor breaks down body systems and inert tissue in an effort to provide O2 so the zombie can hunt successfully, which causes the zombie pain. As the corpse decays it becomes even more difficult to track down prey due to odor and audible noises the zombie makes, therefore requiring more systems be cannibalized by the Z-factor, and so on and so forth, until the zombie literally falls apart in a puddle of goo, eaten away from within and without.
A zombie plague would have two to three weeks at best, from start to finish, before they were all lying down in quivering heaps. Farther south, or in hotter, more humid climes this time might be effectively halved as decay accelerates, and in far northern areas the zombie might actually freeze during sub-zero temperatures, as it generates no body heat and as the human body is 90% water. (The same rule is true for vampires in the far north - I loved 30 Days of Night, but they would all have been vampsicles.)
I love watching horror movies, but nine out of ten times the heroes are woefully unprepared, and I sit there figuring out better ways to do things in order to survive.
1. As a Nurse I can tell you that at for the first three days or so after death and reanimation, the zombies will be moving at near-regular speed, but after that as muscular decay and necrosis sets in they will get slower and clumsier. Within two weeks they would collapse in jellified heaps of rotting flesh and organs, so forget the "fast-movers" from Dawn of the Dead.
2. I wouldn't even try to get away, I have everything that I need at home. And really, where would I go? I live in West Virginia, in a small town away from large population centers. If I did have to clear out, I would be driving my Dodge Grand Caravan. It has enough room to take what I need and the size and weight to roll right over any undead in my way. A small, well-equipped, well-armed and armored group could do well moving cross-country, as long as they stayed sharp and worked together as a team. Most zombies wouldn't have the coordination to travel at any real speed over rough terrain and would fall far behind. They would doubtless gain back ground when the group had to make camp to rest, but if the camp was well-placed and guarded using sentinels and simple string alarms at 5 and 10 minutes distance the whole camp could be struck, on the move, or in place to initiate a counter-attack before the zombies arrived.
3. The first thing I would do at home would be to move my armor and weapons into the attic. (Never, ever take refuge in a basement or underground area - you are trapped, as there is only one way out, and if they get thru the door you are dead or worse.) I am in the SCA, and my armor (steel chainmail hauberk, thick aircraft aluminum plate armor, and large "heater" shield) is built to take full strength hits at speed from baseball bat-like rattan swords, so no zombie even has a hope of scratching it with teeth and fingernails. My weapons include several swords, all of which are full-tang construction and made of strong steel, and all of which I can use well. Guns are OK in a pinch, but require ammo and can jam at the worst times. Baseball bats, crowbars, and other bludgeoning weapons can do okay, but they are usually not balanced for combat and tend to be tip heavy, which throws you off-balance when you swing and makes the weapon difficult and unwieldy. An axe has incredible shearing power, but only has a small area of effective blade and again is incredibly tip-heavy. Machetes are thin, usually stamped out of rolled steel, and have little to no heat tempering. Lacking a "spine" - the thicker middle of a blade's cross-section, a machete tends to bend when it is used against thick bone structures. Fighting for almost twenty years in the SCA has taught me that the sword, well-balanced, (esp. the Japanese katana) has the quickest recovery time and allows the warrior to strike and defend multiple times while an axeman is delivering one or two attacks.
Once I am in the attic I would pull the stairs up after me and armor up. If any zombies were in the house I would drop the stairs and let them come up one at a time, because it is ridiculously easy to decapitate someone coming headfirst up a set of stairs. Fight in doorways as well in order to limit the number of attackers that can reach you at any given minute.
4. Never go for the headshot with a melee weapon - it can become lodged in the skull. Always swing for the neck to sever the spinal column as it is the only bony structure there, or take off hands and legs. A legless zombie can't chase you too well, and a handless one can't grab you. The only "vital" organ a zombie has is its brain, so you must either damage it to the point where it can no longer function i.e. send electrical impulses to the musculature, or separate it from the body completely i.e. decapitation. Attempting to thrust your weapon into a zombies body will do no real damage at all - instead concentrate on severing lower arm/hand areas, ankles, and of course, the neck. Remember that a zombie can only ever be as fast, strong, and tough as he was while alive, and will within days become slower and weaker. Despite all movie assertions that a zombie can scratch, claw, and bite his way thru just about anything, this simply is not true. As my swordbrother Leecifer pointed out, "Ever try to bite thru a good leather coat? Try it sometime." Armor made from thicker saddle leather would be even more durable, not to mention the supreme protective power of chainmail or plate.
Once the house was emptied of threats I would set about barricading doors and windows and inventorying how much canned food I had, filling up as many jerry cans and milk jugs as possible with water, and taking stock of my first aid supplies. You cannot assume that electric, gas, and water services will stay on long, so I would eat any perishable foodstuffs first and recharge any electric devices such as a power drill and a sportlight (mine is five million candlepower and the lantern function can run for eight total hours on a full charge).
5. Any restaurants in the area would also suffer a loss of power and therefore their food would also spoil. Food in their freezers might last a few more days, but at one time I was a restaurant manager and I can tell you that nine out of ten times the freezer is locked. A better choice for raids is the supermarket canned goods aisle, as their pharmacy for antibiotics (I'm a Nurse, I know what I'm looking for), but remember that you may also be in competition or conflict with other survivors for such resources, and they will be wanting to take what you have as well - you may be forced to defend yourself against other humans. Good food choices are all canned goods, Ramen noodles, presweetened Kool-aid packets, canned juices, hard candies, pudding cups, pop tarts, bottled water, and various other non-perishable, non-refrigerated foodstuffs. Stay away from bread and milk, as they spoil far too quickly. Concentrate instead on things that can be heated on a campstove or over a campfire, and reconstituted with water, like Ramen noodles. If you are using non-bottled water for cooking, boil it for at least five minutes to kill any bacteria.
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Why do martial arts people use unusual weapons and techniques?
Why is it that martial arts people use unusual weapons such as nunchucks, flying stars, throwing smoke bombs, or weird swords, when it would be much easier to kill with a shotgun?
Good point. Nunchaku were originally a rice flail OR a horse bridle and when the Japanese conquered Okinawa they would not allow anyone to carry weapons other than the Samarai, so people learned to fight with farm implements. The others you've names were traditional weapons of Ninjas and only a small part of Japan even used these - though in America one would assume they were and still are all over Japan! I guess people still use those things for tradition, I would rather train in a martial art like Hapkido or carry a shotgun!
Some martial arts - such as Hapkido, practice disarms of clubs, knives and guns - but not exotic weapons and only train with readily available materials such as walking canes, knife, club and belts/rope. Krav Maga, Kali, Silat, Systema, Jeet Kune Do also would not have the "traditional" weapons such as those you have listed and if you used weapons they would be knife or club.
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