this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2023
713 points (97.5% liked)

memes

10324 readers
1636 users here now

Community rules

1. Be civilNo trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour

2. No politicsThis is non-politics community. For political memes please go to [email protected]

3. No recent repostsCheck for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month

4. No botsNo bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins

5. No Spam/AdsNo advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live.

Sister communities

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
713
They're slow and don't even have weapons. (startrek.website)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
122 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Confession: I do not like zombie movies or series. Too much eye candy, too much gore, too much too much.

I do enjoy zombie/apocalypse like books.

28 days later was where the infected acted like rabid mobs, running around in groups?

If that was the case, a virus capable of super charging the aggression mechanism of an organism, two infected individuals would charge each other. If it's agression based, pure, blind, agression would end itself by being too successful. Even if a groups of individuals somehow managed to maintain some sort of group mentality, any prey would be rendered to pieces. End of the line, no spreading.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes that's 28 days later. But they made them only act aggressively towards noninfected. So supercharged zombies in a way but they'd die after some time without food.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I won't assert it as fact but I think rabid animals can't distinguish between healthy and infected individuals. If not, the infected would just tear each other apart. It's a desease; group instinct requires higher cognitive capability.

And our bodies can last for about 3 weeks without food, assuming we are doing our best to conserve energy. Again, last 28 days and your chances of surviving go up.