The Zombie Census. When numbers count!

[Flangepart]

The post about the 4th Romero zombie flick gave me an idea.
See what you think.

See....a zombie , being a dead human ( Unless postulated as affecting other species in the films in question )...does this not resault in a problim for the zombie forces at work?
After all, unless zombies can creat other Z's by other means, does that not give the human species a fighting chance, if they get a hold of the records from the census dept? If a given population of Z's has chomped all the normals in walking distance, they would have to go far afield for , um...new blood.

If you can find out what places have the lowest population B.R ( Before Romero ), then that gives you a chance to, as it were, " Clean the county ",
Just load up with lots of ammo ( one humvee can carry thousands of rounds in 250 round boxs of 7.62, and about 400 each for a box of 5.56 ), teach every body the virtue of head shots, and clean out the best spot in , say, Kansas, and start farming.
I mean, whats the population of Topeka, anyhoo?
Now true, Z's will wander looking for "food"...but in Kansas, that flat land can make 'em easier to spot comming, right?
And if, say, 90's percent of the worlds population was "chomped", that would still make this idea work. as they say, "Location, location,location!"
Then, its a matter of clearing out the world, "Room by room", kinda.

Soooooo....if we do the math ( available rounds x marksman ship + square surface area  devided by likely Z popluation = survival odds improvment ), we might see how the folks in George's flick might last till the 5th film, EARLY EVENING OF THE LIVEING DEAD.

So....any thoughts?

[BeyondTheGrave]

I see what you mean flangepart but the thing is not eveyone can organize that well. See I live in NYC and since its a very urban I would have to pull a resident evil and escape raccoon city. Then I would have to go up to rural areas of NYS were people might not have the same idea and I would be alone. plus you have to add the utter chaos that would ensure and people are going to panic first think second.

[Master Blaster]

Zombie sweep teams would be awsome. Of course they'll have to be miscalculations so at some point we get cool hardcore zombie combat action. "No, NOOO!! theres thousands of them! OPEN FIRE!!! AAHHHH!!"

that's just awsome.

[Flangepart]

Yeah. I see yer point, Rich. I guess i'm trying to be a bit more ,oh...optomistic, given the concept.
Takeing back the world, one zombie at a time, would be one looooong process. But if you hold up at an ammo plant next to a lead mine....

[Master Blaster]

With flat land all round you could see zombies coming and easily pick them off after you've reclaimed your first area, but if your living in a world overrun by zombies eventually you'd be dealing with free roaming zombie swarms. I'd imagine after a city is overrun and all life has been stamped out, zombies would start to move outward to find new flesh. Even slow moving zombies, being they have no need for sleep and dont tire out would be able to cover large distances. One could discover your location followed by more maybe following the first, or attracted to the sounds of shots, smell of flesh, lights, whatever and eventually your dealing with teaming masses of starving undead. Shooting millions with head shots would be impossible. I think the only alternative would be to find an impenetrable location Deep in the mountains, on an island, or somewhere in the Arctic, with decades worth of provisions and wait out the zombies decomposition. Then you could come back and reclaim the earth.

Of course being that zombies dont exsist it's a silly argument. : )

[Gerry]

There are lots of places in Utah where you could go and never see a human being for years if you were careful.  The few that show up could probably be taken out pretty quickly and cleanly without wasting much ammo at all.  You would probably have to worry more about protecting your stash from other survivalists than from the walking dead.

[JohnL]

>Just load up with lots of ammo ( one humvee can carry thousands of rounds in
>250 round boxs of 7.62, and about 400 each for a box of 5.56 ), teach every body
>the virtue of head shots, and clean out the best spot in , say, Kansas, and start
>farming.

You wouldn't necessarily need everyone to become a sharpshooter, there are other ways to clean out large numbers of zombies. For example, explosives could take out an entire group of zombies in one shot. Just lure them into a crowd from a high vantage point and drop a brick of C4 in the center of them. I would think flamethrowers would work quite well too. The zombies wouldn't go down immediately, but as they wouldn't have the intelligence to put out the flames, they'd just burn until it either destroys their brain or burns off all the flesh and muscle, rendering them unable to move.

Realistically though, unless being a zombie provides some kind of preservation effect, all you need to do is wait a few years and all of them will have rotted away to the point where they can no longer function.

[Flangepart]

C-4...D'oh!  
Forgot the obvious.
But yeah, flame is best. Unless we're talkin' Return level liveing dead ( Which is a whole nother level of threat ), you sterilise the beasties on the cheap.
High chain link. Slows the advance , and makes head shot easier.
Oh, and Supressors , to avoiding guns shots becomming the "Dinner bell", as it were.

[Master Blaster]

I've always wanted to see napalm in a zombie movie. If you happen to have planes, and the zombies are roaming around in packs you could sweep over and drop napalm to incinerate the whole lot.

[AndyC]

That would be cool. It would also be neat to see somebody drop a daisycutter into a huge mob of them.

[Master Blaster]

Largest conventional bomb in the world. That would be just downright sexy!

[Andrew]

Recently saw the new 'Dawn of the Dead" out here (the DVD is getting passed around) and so this was fresh on my mind.   The main inhibitor for fighting zombies in an urban environment is getting ambushed.  However, it should be noted that any sort of armored fighting vehicle (including an M1) is equipped with weapons that will cut a person in half (.50 cal, 20 mm gun, the main gun on a tank, etc.), but they would be darn good at running over and crushing zombies.

Also, armored bulldozers would be pretty much impervious and would also turn zombie into mush.

Then you have the bastions where mankind could fortify.  NORAD would be safe, along with all sorts of missile silos.  Add to that Navy ships, which would be floating refuges.

Perhaps the most effective zombie killer ever will come sometime in the future.  Combat robots would  not be something the zombies want to eat and could carry weapons that would be capable of eliminating hundreds.  Put a chainsaw on one side and a 7.62 rifle on the other.  Killing zombies by remote, oh yeah!

Yes, I am still around.  All of our unit's Marines returned safely from Fallujah.  My platoon is doing very well; I am proud of them.  In terms of the weather, it is quite cold today - windy, so the wind chill is what makes it bite into you.  Out.

[Flangepart]

Oh, yeah....Tanks,!

( Singing ) Tanks-for, the memories...
Of zombies that we crushed- we turned them into mush.
We ran 'em down.
All over town,
Was fun to see 'em squesh.
We tank you-so muuuch...
( With appologies to Bob Hope.)

[Master Blaster]

Giant Military Robots wasting zombies! I just had a goregasm!

[Master Blaster]

Oh by the way, welcome back and glad your safe.