tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2324297731039041197.post3080482590297652321..comments2013-09-12T09:57:53.482+10:00Comments on VDU's blog: If you gave a virus legs and teeth...MackayIMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14990439985197493738noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2324297731039041197.post-26798373308792253432013-08-01T12:59:51.558+10:002013-08-01T12:59:51.558+10:00Yup - fro minutes down to 12 seconds I think. I th...Yup - fro minutes down to 12 seconds I think. I think that might have been meant to plays to the virus adapting to its host.<br /><br />They seems to do alright getting into the dumb waiter on the plane out of Israel.<br /><br />BPP101 I think it is. MackayIMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14990439985197493738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2324297731039041197.post-27278750573562145102013-07-31T16:28:27.981+10:002013-07-31T16:28:27.981+10:00Zombie movies generally muck up by failing to have...Zombie movies generally muck up by failing to have a decent incubation rate. I vaguely remember in the WWZ movie there was a mention of some people earlier in the outbreak “turning” after a long delay…? Hope that was right, because my inner nerd LOVES plot holes like that getting filled with a quick line. <br /><br />But if your zombies turn really fast, there’s not much chance they’d get on a plane. 28 Days Later had that problem.<br /><br />Bit like SARS: is was SO pathogenic that pretty much everyone had a fever. Easy (relatively) to stomp into the dirt (still, mad props, WHO and friends!). While flu has asymptomatic (but shedding) cases, a nice two-day incubation rate, a bit of transmission in the two days pre-symptoms… Border control is close to useless.<br /><br />If I was a super-villain, my virus would be something nice and slow, with shedding over a long period before the symptoms kicked in.<br /><br />…hey, why aren’t there any water-zombies? They don’t breath, do they? So couldn’t they sorta lurch across oceans eventually? I wanna see a movie with water-logged zombies coming en-mass up onto a beach. That’d be awesome.<br /><br />Also, what courses at uni do I have to do to become a billionaire playboy philanthropist?SmellyTerrorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15438810185325187894noreply@blogger.com