• Question: Is there a chance that a zombie apocalypse could happen?

    Asked by to Aimee, Chris, Dave, Greig, Laurence on 16 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Aimee Hopper answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      I don’t think it would in the way that the films show…. but the Black Plague must have looked like a zombie apocalypse back in the day :S

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      Dave Jones answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      Hey, who knows? Maybe a virus could mutate and form something that would make things look very much like a zombie apocalypse. One thing for sure is that people coming back to life as zombies wouldn’t be able to happen as their cells start to deteriorate and don’t function any more. But maybe the spread of a strange virus could seem a lot like a zombie movie!

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      Laurence Perreault Levasseur answered on 17 Jun 2014:

      I don’t think it’s very likely… but, as Dave said, something that would look like a zombie apocalypse, who knows?

      Interesting related fact: the pentagon in the US has an emergency plan in case of a zombie apocalypse. check it out:
      http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/pentagon-has-zombie-apocalypse-emergency-plan

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      Greig Cowan answered on 19 Jun 2014:

      Hi moseph123! I think this is very unlikely, but some strange bacteria or virus could mutate and cause some real trouble for us!

      Some students recently made this film:

      http://www.decayfilm.com/

      about a zombie invasion of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Check it out to see how scientists would react to this situation! 🙂

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