NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD SEQUELS, PREQUELS, AND REMAKES NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD !!!THE SCIENCE MOMENT!!!

SCIENCE MOMENT BY KELLY PARKS

One of the very cool things about the original three movies is that, in spite of a lot of scientific hand waving, they never figure out exactly why this is happening.

A virus? A vengeful God? Alien Space Bats?

It just happens and people have to deal with it.

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

DAWN OF THE DEAD

DAY OF THE DEAD

LAND OF THE DEAD

I was hoping after twenty years that Romero would at least drop a few hints but that doesn't happen, so all I can do is speculate. I don't know how you could provide enough energy to maintain bodily animation after death (and after the resulting cellular damage from lack of oxygen), especially since the zombies don't breathe and hardly ever eat (most people are long gone and yet months or years later the zombies are still walking around).

Some people like to wave their arms and shout "nanotechnology" but that's not a workable answer. Nanotech isn't magic and though it can do many things, it can't supply limitless energy from nothing. In fact, magic is the only answer I can think of.1

SCIENCE MOMENT by E.C.McMULLEN Jr.

DIARY OF THE DEAD

Romero is well versed, especially so for a guy his age, in the Internet and how it affects people young enough to be his grandchildren. But while he knows about the use of the Internet, he knows surprisingly little about the workings of the Internet.

For example, George covers things like cellphones going out, telephones going out, Television stations going out, even power going out: things he has no doubt experienced for years. Yet in an entirely arbitrary way, power comes back on whenever and where ever it is needed. What's more, since this is supposed to be a worldwide phenomenon, who in the hell is running all of the computer servers in all of these nations where presumably they are having just as much trouble with their power grid as the rest of us?

There is a reason why, in 2008, Internet phone companies like Vonage can't reliably guarantee that your 911 emergency line will work - the Internet is woefully unstable. What's more, it takes thousands of Information Technician (I.T.) experts standing in air conditioned rooms hovering over rows of banks of servers sucking up enormous amounts of electricity just to run the thing at all. But in DIARY OF THE DEAD, Internet connectivity has never been better and websites like YouTube don't crash or even stall! Who is maintaining the Internet and these websites and individual servers everytime the power goes out and who is turning on and rebooting all of the computers everytime the power returns? And who is at all of the high speed Internet providers to be so Johnny-On-The-Spot to make sure the throughput goes through?

Romero creates a world where both society and technology are breaking down at a breakneck pace, and he SHOWS us that. Yet our intrepid heroes find magical wireless broadband world-wide Internet connectivity wherever they find a computer.

Even more unbelievable than zombies!

But hey: if you can have leaping invisible zombies and magical Internet, then why are fast running zombies so hard to swallow?

SCIENCE MOMENT by E.C.McMULLEN Jr.

1But it could be a fungus

Is a fungus capable of thought? Is it capable of planning and strategy, at least on an insect scale?

Introducing the horrific mind controlling fungi Ophiocordyceps and Ophiocordyceps unilateralis. Wikipedia says there are over 140 species, but in truth there are thousands.

Zombie ants controlled by fungus: study

Want to learn more about insidious monster fungus?

Well of COURSE you do!

So spend a mind-expanding day at your local public library! Feel those new neural connections Grow!

Or check out these quick links of soundbite answers!

Zombie Fungus Enslaves Only Its Favorite Ant Brains

The Fungus That Turns Ants Into Zombies Is More Diabolical Than We Realized

UPDATE: 2019 - More Scary Discoveries!

How a parasitic fungus turns ants into 'zombies' (NatGeo)

This review copyright 2004 E.C.McMullen Jr.

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