Seraphi

I don't think you can put videos in your sig. Anyway, I'm out. Ciao.

There is a fine line between insanity and stupidity. You have not even passed halfway through stupidity. I know why you like to think you're insane, but I don't think you are. I used to enjoy thinking that I was insane, that I was different from the drones, as well. It quickly passed. I am many things. Misanthropic, Sociopathic, but I am not insane, and neither are you, so stop hiding behind that like it is a shield to defend your actions. Your ideas make no sense, and are illogical, which, in my eyes, means they must be stupid. I cannot agree to disagree. It drives me mad when I try to.

Your ideas are stupid. I conclude that you are an idiot.

You are an idiot. Logic is the only thing stopping humans from being mindless husks, and you refuse to follow it. I do not confer with mindless husks.

Words fail me. I have never seen a more pure form of idiocy. You are wrong, and I am done arguing fruitlessly. Your stubborness, and your inability to admit you are wrong shall be your downfall. Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. -Frank Leahy

My god. I cannot put into words how stupid you are, Earth. There isn't a single phrase in the english language which can even begin to describe it. Even if you lived for a billion years, you would not see such a mutation happen. Why should you be prepared for something that WILL NOT happen. It just wont. It could, but it wont. That is it. What you are saying, will not happen. IT WILL NOT HAPPEN. IT WILL NOT HAPPEN Therefore, your resources and time are much better put to use preparing specifically for the more likely variety of zombie, since any materials you gather in preparation for those you know will be useful. If you have materials gathered for something else entirely, you don't know whether they would be useful for the more likely variety at all. Sure, they MIGHT be useful, but that's not a gaurantee, unlike the materials you prepared specifically for the more likely variety. Therefore, by preparing for something which has such a low chance of happening, you are putting yourself at more risk of dying to the event which has a far, far, far higher chance of happening. Thus, I conclude, that preparing for something which has insurmountably low odds of happening is not worth the time and effort used, and will put you in more danger than it would save you from. Also, of course I'm going by statistics. That is the logical choice.

Earth, your IQ must be in the negatives. I feel as if I'm getting more stupid simply from talking to you. Preperation is good, when you are preparing for something which could, realistically happen. Say, if you were prepared for getting hit by a car. That's good. Preparing for if your family randomly turned into pastry products. That's not good. That's not good at all. Preparing for something which has such a low probability is simply a waste of time and resources which could be used in preperation for something which has a higher probability.

No, I understand entirely what you are saying. Except that's what I have a problem with. You are repeating the same thing over and over, regurgitating the same damn phrases and arguments against my perfectly logical examples and ideas. For the last time. Please, please, please, try to understand what you are doing, and don't vomit up the same inadequate argument like you have been doing for the last two pages. I'm going to put this as simply as possible. Having a plan for something that, by all laws of probability, should never, ever happen, even if you were to live through seven-hundered-million zombie apocalypses is not worth the effort used. It is exactly like planning what you would do if you (As Rocco stated) turned into a bagel and fell into a sewer. There is a chance it will happen, however, that percentage would have so many zeroes in it that even if you wrote a zero on every single atom in the Earth, you would still not quite be there. There is no point in planning ahead for something with that low a chance of happening.

No, because you are clearly to stupid to engage in a debate about anything more complicated than "Hurrrrr my dog bit me" As you can probably tell, your lack of ability to understand anything has put me in quite a bad mood.

SIR, THE LEVEL OF STUPIDITY IS OFF THE SCALE, WE MUST ABORT THE MISSION. ROCCO, RETECH, NEX, HURRY TO THE ESCAPE PODS.

Okay. You're just trolling me now, I swear. You ignore the logical argument I come up with and then repeat what you have said before. Having a plan for if something with such impossibly low odds as that happening is like having a plan for if the Earth turns into cake. It could happen. Does that mean you should have a plan for it? No, because the chances are so low that they should not be taken into account in any way shape or form. Why don't you try reading what I post.

Okay. You're just trolling me now, I swear. You ignore the logical argument I come up with and then repeat what you have said before. Having a plan for if something with such impossibly low odds as that happening is like having a plan for if the Earth turns into cake. It could happen. Does that mean you should have a plan for it? No, because the chances are so low that they should not be taken into account in any way shape or form.

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That's the typical pessimistic attitude, yes. I know it all too well. But this is pretty much impossible. The chances of it happening are so low that there is no point in preparing for it. If we're taking pessimism to that scale, you might as well have a plan for if the Earth suddenly turns into a giant cake. Or your arm suddenly turns into a sofa.

No. I can't be bothered to explain it anymore. I tell you it wont happen and give you a reason why, and you respond with "But it COULD happen." It wont. You're wrong. Get over it.

I understand that more than anything. Laws of probability states that anything is possible. It's all down to chance. For example, the atoms which make up planet Earth could rearrange themselves right now and form two seperate planets, but the chances of that happening are so impossibly slim that the human brain could barely comprehend it. With that said, a beneficial mutation has a slim chance already, and to be able to do things like spit acid, or develop into some superpowered monster due to a mutation in a parasite would have an even lower chance. tl;dr You're wrong, and should disregard it completely.

That is completely and utterly irrelevant. There is no correlation between your dog trying to kill you and zombies mutating into magical superbeings. I really just think you're telling sob stories, regardless of whether they are true or not, in hopes of some sympathy.

I do know. I know very well. The chances of a parasite mutating in such a way that it can alter it's hosts body to perform functions which the original host could not even dream of performing is literally nil. In fact, the chances of a mutation occuring which is beneficial in any way, shape or form is incredibly slim in the first place. L4D is a game scenario. It has no basis in science at all, and you should completely disregard it when making plans for a real zombie apocalypse. That said, romero zombies aren't likely either, but they are possible.

I'm a chronic pessimist. (Obligatory quote: “Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.” -Thomas Hardy) No, it isn't possible. Biologically, the chances are nil. You're basing it off of L4D.

Stop basing this off of a videogame. There wont be any zombie types, there will be a single zombie variety. The chances of a mutation occuring which would affect the hosts body are pretty much nil. Nex, you still want to get away from NY, since it is densely populated.

I'm going for the train idea. Nex. In the event of an outbreak, you want to get the hell out of NY before it's quarentined because of thousand strong hoardes wandering the streets.

I think it's more to do with a chemical which the virus produces which causes the body to attack other living beings.

I'd think even in a dormant state, as long as it is still there, I think the zombie would continue, although maybe more sluggishly.

Because the only thing worse than zombies is a zombie which is on fire. Hex, the zombies will go after any really loud sound. Explosives are very loud. As for temperature, I'd think it would need to be low enough to kill the virus to stop the zombie. I'm not sure -30 would be enough.

Zombies don't really have a problem with the cold... There is no blood flow. Also, Hex, why are you so dead set on using explosives? They aren't as useful as you might think. For starters, the second you set it off, every zombie in a ten mile radius is going to target you. Secondly, it isn't accurate as a killing device. You really don't want torso zombies dragging themselves through the undergrowth where you can't see them and then knawing on your ankle.