Could you fake a zombie state to confuse them

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Permalink Reply by Brian on July 17, 2008 at 11:29am

Haiti with puffa fish toxin?? o.00

yea i was thinking about something similar like getting zombie blood and odor all over you to smell like one of them

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Permalink Reply by Brian Akerly on July 17, 2008 at 3:31pm

Zombies have the famous limp that makes them stand out, however, people have tried to move safely through an infested area by adopting a shambling, awkward limp, to date, none were succsesful. The undead are able to smell a human on the wind, and there is an astronomical difference between the smell of rotting flesh and fresh flesh, that is one way. Also, humans are not made to walk like that for long periods time, anybody who's broken a leg will say it gets uncomfortable to limp after a while, so trying to traverse a long distance limping will be close to impossible. Third is sight, the average zombie looks like a man who was mauled by a bear, buried for several weeks, then revieved VS. a human who is normally clean and well dressed. A zombie knows what a zombie looks like, and knows what a human looks like, and can tell the difference between the two.

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Permalink Reply by TK8103 on July 17, 2008 at 6:29pm

Covering yourself in zombie gore to mask your scent might work. However, don't forget that the zombie virus appears to blood born. You run the risk of infecting yourself.

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Permalink Reply by cazzie on July 18, 2008 at 5:57am

bit if you faked the zombie state an could distill the essence of zombie gore it may be possible

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Permalink Reply by J,M. on July 18, 2008 at 8:32am

that makes sense, because puffer fish toxin can cause a near comatose state...lowering vital signs to the point that trained medical professionals can sometimes declare someone dead

so it may work, and if it dosent, you'll never know about it.

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Permalink Reply by Robert on July 18, 2008 at 5:13pm

I can't say if it'd work or not. In every zombie movie I've ever seen (except Shaun of the Dead) acting like a zombie was pointless. Zombies can tell a living person from a dead person 100% of the time. How they do this is unknown (speculation runs from scent, living moving differently from the dead, to some sort of extrasensory ability humans don't possess) but in every situation they just knew and couldn't be fooled.

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Permalink Reply by cazzie on July 19, 2008 at 7:08am

we need to study how zombies react to things and mayeb come up with some scientific knwoledge of what their basic intelligence levels are

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Permalink Reply by TK8103 on July 22, 2008 at 6:54pm

The most logical conclusion is that the zombie is not burdened by the normal filters a human imposes on their senses. Zombies don't have any extra sensory powers, they're just more attuned to them because they don't think about it. They receive input, they react.
As for distilling zombie gore, now you're talking about concentrated infectious material. All you would succeed in doing is weaponizing zombie gore.

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