Originally posted by MichaelMyers
In order to re-animate the dead, we would need something to re-connect the nerve pathways in the brain, and kick start the heart.
Bringing something back into a state of re-animation doesn't require a soul, just energy to make everything work.
Having said that, how could we do that?
A virus.
Some of the movies were dead on about that.
Anything that could infect the corpse, re-connect nueral pathways, and provide the kick start needed, even if acting as a parasite to the host, should at least in theory, work.
Like a poster above said, they HAVE re-animated dogs, so humans are a huge possibility... and maybe that have done so already behind closed doors.

Now, in order to get said virus into countless corpses, how would we do that?
Injection is out of the question.
Airborne would make no sense.
So how then?
Infect rats. It's simple enough. Rats carry diseases already, and can pass those on. Rats feed on dead animals, amongst other things.
What sometimes lives on rats, and other wild animals?
Ticks.
They can also carry diseases.. ie- Lyme Disease.
So, the virus get's spread from rat to tick, and from both, to corpse, as rats feed on dead animals/etc, and ticks can infect other animals, and people, starting a huge outbreak in rural areas, and spread to cities quickly.

As I've said numerous times in this and the other *identical* thread, the sheer amount of genetic material necessary for such a physiological change simply CAN NOT fit inside a viral capsid. Also, viruses require LIVE CELLS in order to reproduce. How exactly would you reproduce the virus in dead hosts?

Also, in order for rats to spread it, the ticks would have to latch onto the host and exchange saliva for blood. Ticks will not latch onto a dead host, which they can sense due to little to no emission of CO2. That sort of blows your theory out of the water.

a bunch of rotting corpses ruining around ?

can you imagine the flies?

what about stiffs? how they gonna move?

or see, you know cause their eyes will rot out?

wonder if they will all show up on buses at wall mart too

Double post.

[edit on 13/5/2007 by malganis]

Last night I went to see the sequel to 28 Days Later, it's called 28 Weeks Later. Wow it's a bloody great film, i'd seriously recommend going to see it (I don't know if it's been released outside of UK yet).

Apart from being an awesome made film, there's a lot of things in there that make you think about this sort of thing. I think that scientists could engineer a 'super-rabies', and it wouldn't be pretty.

Are zombies a possibility?

Check out the leaders of this world
- Yes offcourse it's possible!!!

Why re-animate a nasty old body when a mind controlled person can do the job? Or why not just infect birds or pigs? If they can infect their own species as they are doing now, it's just a small step in a lab to start a human epidemic or pandemic using them? SARS didn't work too well, but I'm sure they haven't given up. The DOD already has biowarfare plans for infecting target populations.

Originally posted by RRconservative
Real zombification involves a potion that slows down the heart rate to a point where the victim appears to be dead. When the victim is "brought back" he remains in a zombie-like state where he is usually kept as a slave.

I was leaning to more of this idea. I think he's referring to some type of mind control.

Originally posted by Leyla

Originally posted by RRconservative
Real zombification involves a potion that slows down the heart rate to a point where the victim appears to be dead. When the victim is "brought back" he remains in a zombie-like state where he is usually kept as a slave.

I was leaning to more of this idea. I think he's referring to some type of mind control.

Oops.

Yes, Leyla, like the proficient yogis who can achieve this state.

Originally posted by Leyla
Can you find proof of this? I looked but just basically found the movie. And other little stuff. Would this be in the field of Eugenics? Partly at least? If anyone finds any links about this and other strange medical experiments post them here or on the thread I started below.

The discovery channel has had shows on it befor. Pretty cool

What about the idea of a type of engineered parasite? I'm not talking about reanimation. I mean mind controlling parasites that would induce violent behavior. I know some parasites in real life can cause their host to commit suicide. What if an engineered parasite caused its host to attack others in order to spread the parasite?

Originally posted by MikeboydUS
What about the idea of a type of engineered parasite? I'm not talking about reanimation. I mean mind controlling parasites that would induce violent behavior. I know some parasites in real life can cause their host to commit suicide. What if an engineered parasite caused its host to attack others in order to spread the parasite?

how would that spread the parasite? Killing or harming another viable host would seem counterintuitive from a parasitic point of view.

But what if they used violence as a means to spread the parasite? Physical contact or something along those lines?

Originally posted by Nostradamouse
But what if they used violence as a means to spread the parasite? Physical contact or something along those lines?

I don't see why physical contact would be necessary to spread a parasite, as we all come close enough for a parasite to jump from person to person in everyday life without the need for induced violence.

Also, if the parasite DID need people to make physical contact in order to spread, why would it choose a path that would harm its hopeful new host, rather than induce something like sexual contact, which would cause much more prolonged physical contact AND leave the new host intact?

Originally posted by bsl4doc

Originally posted by Nostradamouse
But what if they used violence as a means to spread the parasite? Physical contact or something along those lines?

I don't see why physical contact would be necessary to spread a parasite, as we all come close enough for a parasite to jump from person to person in everyday life without the need for induced violence.

Also, if the parasite DID need people to make physical contact in order to spread, why would it choose a path that would harm its hopeful new host, rather than induce something like sexual contact, which would cause much more prolonged physical contact AND leave the new host intact?

Because it would be an engineered not occuring in nature parasite likely designed for biological warfare.

Originally posted by MikeboydUS


Because it would be an engineered not occuring in nature parasite likely designed for biological warfare.

It still needs new hosts, and harming/killing the new host severely limits the parasites ability to spread. Very illogical for something that is engineered, if you ask me.

Umm. The parasite could spread to the dead body of the victim, while the cells were still active.

Originally posted by Nostradamouse
Umm. The parasite could spread to the dead body of the victim, while the cells were still active.

The cells of a deceased individual only remain "active" for a matter of hours at most. They then die, as they have no source of nutrition and waste removal. This would NOT support the spread of a parasite. Honestly, people, pick up a science textbook from time to time.