I disagree, I think if we were to have a Carrington level event, it would be immediately obvious. Your phone would not turn on, Your car would not start, nothing electronic would work. According to FEMA, a nationwide power outage lasting a year or more would kill 95% of the population.
Shawn Elliott
My understanding is, the primal fear of zombies derives from the delirium and irrational aggression exhibited by people who've become infected with rabies. It's a contagious disease spread by scratching and biting, it causes brain damage, and it causes desperate hunger and thirst because the throat muscles are paralyzed so every attempt to swallow causes choking. (hence the old name "hydrophobia".) The end of the modern world being caused by rabid humans is implausible, but that fear developed at a time when "the world" consisted of the 20 people in your tribe — if enough of them got infected while… Read more »
Dustin
This talk of zombies in science fiction reminds me of the flood from Halo
I disagree, I think if we were to have a Carrington level event, it would be immediately obvious. Your phone would not turn on, Your car would not start, nothing electronic would work. According to FEMA, a nationwide power outage lasting a year or more would kill 95% of the population.
My understanding is, the primal fear of zombies derives from the delirium and irrational aggression exhibited by people who've become infected with rabies. It's a contagious disease spread by scratching and biting, it causes brain damage, and it causes desperate hunger and thirst because the throat muscles are paralyzed so every attempt to swallow causes choking. (hence the old name "hydrophobia".) The end of the modern world being caused by rabid humans is implausible, but that fear developed at a time when "the world" consisted of the 20 people in your tribe — if enough of them got infected while… Read more »
This talk of zombies in science fiction reminds me of the flood from Halo
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