Deodorized
11-30-2008, 02:44 AM
This post was originally part of another site, where a user asked a multitude of questions regarding zombies. I have copied and pasted the questions here, so you have reference.
"1.) As the infected do not eat their victims or each other and are unable to prepare food, they die of starvation. However, they do not apparently suffer from dehydration. After even one day, their bodies should show signs of dehydration from exertion, daily acitivity, and excretion.
2.) Do they excrete waste material? As they do not continue to eat, do they continue to digest and excrete waste material already in the body? Do the kidneys and liver continue to filter virus clogged blood and create urine? Do they sweat to cool off?
3.) Do they breathe? As they are still alive, it should be assumed so, but shots have been so far away that any evidence of respiration is not visible and infected who have specifically died of asphyxiation or drowning have not been shown. Do they use aerobic or anarobic respiration?
4.) Do they sleep? A functional human requires sleep to refresh the mind and repair muscle damage, without it, hysteria and eventual death ensue, but it does not appear necessary in the infected. Does the virus negate this otherwise necessary function?
5.) Why don't they get tired? They often run very long distances to follow and catch up to prey, but they don't need to rest to breathe (?) or to repair muscle damage.
6.) How do they recognize themselves and others as infected vs. uninfected? As portrayed in 28 Weeks Later, they can obviously tell who among them is infected, but how? Do they use sight, smell, sound, taste, touch, or some other sense to tell? In a specific instance in 28 Weeks Later, a soldier guarding children leaves the compound through a door, after being infected he returns and proceeds to attack the children through a translucent, soundproof structure, probably using sight, but was it movement or visual recognition?
7.) Do they have memory? As using the reference above, the soldier returns to the room holding the children. Did he accidentally stumble into the same room, see them, and begin attacking? Sense them from a distance? Or somehow remember where they were?
8.) As seen in 28 Days Later, the 'Rage Virus' is obviously transferable from chimps to humans, but which, if any other animals, can be infected either accidentally or purposefully by blood borne contact?
9.) How long does the virus last after death of the infected? Rats and other scavenger animals were eating their remains with no outwardly visible symptoms and probably were not harboring the live virus.
10.) There are many different forms of heterochromia, the genetic predisposition to being a carrier, but there are many forms, several genetic and others acquired. Which genetic form is shown in the movie? and do any other kinds of heterochromia yield any other resistance?
*wiki article my assumption is Simple Heterochromia without visual impairment"
Look at my next post for the in-depth answers.
"1.) As the infected do not eat their victims or each other and are unable to prepare food, they die of starvation. However, they do not apparently suffer from dehydration. After even one day, their bodies should show signs of dehydration from exertion, daily acitivity, and excretion.
2.) Do they excrete waste material? As they do not continue to eat, do they continue to digest and excrete waste material already in the body? Do the kidneys and liver continue to filter virus clogged blood and create urine? Do they sweat to cool off?
3.) Do they breathe? As they are still alive, it should be assumed so, but shots have been so far away that any evidence of respiration is not visible and infected who have specifically died of asphyxiation or drowning have not been shown. Do they use aerobic or anarobic respiration?
4.) Do they sleep? A functional human requires sleep to refresh the mind and repair muscle damage, without it, hysteria and eventual death ensue, but it does not appear necessary in the infected. Does the virus negate this otherwise necessary function?
5.) Why don't they get tired? They often run very long distances to follow and catch up to prey, but they don't need to rest to breathe (?) or to repair muscle damage.
6.) How do they recognize themselves and others as infected vs. uninfected? As portrayed in 28 Weeks Later, they can obviously tell who among them is infected, but how? Do they use sight, smell, sound, taste, touch, or some other sense to tell? In a specific instance in 28 Weeks Later, a soldier guarding children leaves the compound through a door, after being infected he returns and proceeds to attack the children through a translucent, soundproof structure, probably using sight, but was it movement or visual recognition?
7.) Do they have memory? As using the reference above, the soldier returns to the room holding the children. Did he accidentally stumble into the same room, see them, and begin attacking? Sense them from a distance? Or somehow remember where they were?
8.) As seen in 28 Days Later, the 'Rage Virus' is obviously transferable from chimps to humans, but which, if any other animals, can be infected either accidentally or purposefully by blood borne contact?
9.) How long does the virus last after death of the infected? Rats and other scavenger animals were eating their remains with no outwardly visible symptoms and probably were not harboring the live virus.
10.) There are many different forms of heterochromia, the genetic predisposition to being a carrier, but there are many forms, several genetic and others acquired. Which genetic form is shown in the movie? and do any other kinds of heterochromia yield any other resistance?
*wiki article my assumption is Simple Heterochromia without visual impairment"
Look at my next post for the in-depth answers.