Zombie outbreak... WWJD (what would jomari do)...

[Anthony P]

but will they continue to decompose? If that was the case, in reality, it would only be a matter of weeks before the original zombies were so decomposed that they would be immobilized

no idea, but my guess is that if they are not in the ground and walking around decomposition should be much slower. Most of the normal insects and stuff that are involved in decomposition don't go after stuff that moves.

[atomik kinder]

Originally Posted by Anthony P

no idea, but my guess is that if they are not in the ground and walking around decomposition should be much slower. Most of the normal insects and stuff that are involved in decomposition don't go after stuff that moves.

Did you see "Life After People" last week? Even the mummies in museums in Egypt would decompose due to mold and bacteria within months if the power ever went out and their environment controlled cases shut off and those people have been dead thousands of years. You would think that mummies would simply stay the way the were. Things in the body just continue to breakdown without the help of insects and such anyway.

[Rob71]

Originally Posted by atomik kinder

Did you see "Life After People" last week? Even the mummies in museums in Egypt would decompose due to mold and bacteria within months if the power ever went out and their environment controlled cases shut off and those people have been dead thousands of years. You would think that mummies would simply stay the way the were. Things in the body just continue to breakdown without the help of insects and such anyway.

I forgot to watch it.

Was it the same one that came out last year, or is it a new one? The one I saw a while back was really interesting. Showed how nature would reclaim the cities, nuclear plants would melt down and such. If they knew what they were talking about, it's amazing how quickly evidence of our existence would disappear.

[atomik kinder]

Originally Posted by Rob71

I forgot to watch it.

Was it the same one that came out last year, or is it a new one? The one I saw a while back was really interesting. Showed how nature would reclaim the cities, nuclear plants would melt down and such. If they knew what they were talking about, it's amazing how quickly evidence of our existence would disappear.

It was mostly new. It is a series now. They did use a few clips from the previous special, but from the looks of it they are focusing on a certain subject each week. This last week it was about humans trying to leave a permanent mark on the world. They even talked about Operation Immortality, where the DNA fingerprints of certain people would be sent to the International Space Station so that if the Earth is ever destroyed, aliens could one day find it and rebuild the human race. The show mentioned that within a few months of humans disappering the space station would re-enter Earth's atmosphere and burn up due to the fact that there would be nothing checking its orbit and correcting it.

The show is pretty interesting. I will probably watch it again.

[Anthony P]

Did you see "Life After People" last week? Even the mummies in museums in Egypt would decompose due to mold and bacteria within months if the power ever went out and their environment controlled cases shut off and those people have been dead thousands of years. You would think that mummies would simply stay the way the were. Things in the body just continue to breakdown without the help of insects and such anyway.

No I did not, but I did not say they would not decompose at all, but if like those mummies they are around for millenia,it does not matter if eventualy they are no more

but on a more serious note. If they survive for anything over a year surviving can't be limited to what is on hand. the issue is that if nothing is "eating it" then it can last a lot longer (months) and if for example the thing that causes Zombies also creates lactic acide, then it can last for years.

Plus you are missing something serious in your thought, a ship at the bottom of the oceon remains preserved, you bring it out of the water and imidiately deteriorates, the mummies are OK while in their tombs for thousands of years, but when moved they start to decompose fast, the ice man, bog man.... same thing. What you miss is that a preserved object (be it man, animal or something else) has the right characteristics for a very specific environment (where they became preserved) any chang in humidity and other environmental conditions completely ruins it fast because it adapted to its environment. That is why some are in cold ice, others in hot dry deserts and others in water.