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Old 12-12-2008, 04:10 PM
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wheres my MG36

and the person would feel weak, sick, dying andhave some wound indicatuing infection
 
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Old 12-12-2008, 04:31 PM
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I think were goign to need to setup a screening process to make sure no zobies accidently infiltrate our base.
 
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Old 12-12-2008, 04:41 PM
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Agreed there has to be some sort of test... maybe shoot ppl in the foot if they feel it then they are human? if not the next bullet goes in the head
 
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Old 12-12-2008, 04:56 PM
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I don't know about that or not i was thinking more along the lines like we can scan your brain or something and see if there is any activity or not.
 
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Old 12-12-2008, 05:39 PM
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good info:


There is a cure for zombies after all - if you are a cockroach. A new study has shown that cockroaches that turned into "zombies" after being stung by a parasitic wasp can be revived with an antidote.
Cockroaches can lose their ability to walk when stung by jewel wasps (Ampulex compressa) - the females of which use the cockroaches to feed their young.
The wasp, being much smaller than the cockroach, has evolved a fine sting that can deliver a venom cocktail directly into the cockroach's brain. The poisons effectively turn the cockroach into a zombie.
The cockroach is not entirely paralysed, but loses its ability to escape. The wasp then grabs it by the antennae and pulls it into its burrow and lays an egg on its abdomen. The cockroach sits still while the wasp's larva hatches, chews a hole into its belly, and slowly eats its living host from the inside over a period of eight days.
Brain injection

To find out if he could revive the cockroaches, Frederic Libersat from Ben-Gurion University in Be'er Sheva, Israel, injected stung zombie cockroaches with candidate chemicals that resembled various neurotransmitters in the brain.
Libersat found that one of the drugs, a mimic of the neurotransmitter octopamine, succeeded in bringing the roaches back to life.
"The cockroach begins to walk spontaneously again, especially when injected directly into the brain," says Libersat.
He had previously discovered that octopamine-producing neurons elsewhere in the cockroach's body show reduced activity when stung by the wasps. Libersat thinks that the same thing may happen in the brain.
Zombie humans

"I think the most likely explanation is that a component of the toxin affects the expression of genes that regulate the activity of these neurons", he says.
So could octopamine become a possible antidote for future humans turned into zombies by, say, invading aliens? Not quite, says neuroscientist Hans-Joachim Pflüger at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
"Our brain is of course much more complex, and we use different neurotransmitters," he says. "But new research shows tiny quantities of octopamine exist in the vertebrate spinal cord and do affect leg movement, so it will be interesting to see what exactly octopamine does in humans."
 
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Old 12-12-2008, 06:13 PM
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What if someone that reads this turns into a zombie? Will they still have an instinct to come to the designated location? This could be very bad we may have blown things.
 
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Old 12-12-2008, 06:15 PM
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Ah hell!!!

Here I am all set to blow away any zombie running around with a thick Jersey accent screaming "BRAYNES".

And now you tell me they may just be innocent victims of a wasp sting???

Can't you just revive them after I put a tite 3" shot group in their brow??
 
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Old 12-12-2008, 06:44 PM
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From teh dirty jerz?

waste em.
 
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Old 12-12-2008, 06:58 PM
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Originally Posted by achTTung
From teh dirty jerz?

waste em.
im from jersey....
 
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Old 12-12-2008, 07:11 PM
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As long as you don't have a popped collar you're safe
 


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