Physiology of the running zombie

Doc....you truly are the Zomfather. You're everywhere! And like, always doing zombie stuff. /impressed.

Agreed... Dr. Pus is fuckin awesome.

You know, I know the Doc fairly well and all the things he does in his personal life (well, not ALL the things) outside the internet and it blows my mind to see how much this man does.... do yoiu ever get a quiet minute doc?

Zomfather. Now that is a perfect name for the Doc. Dude is a stud.

Yeah! What they all said!

on this topic I was thinking about what those dudes were going back and forth about and one thing occurred to me that I don't think either of them brought up.

A zombie, is dead right? no heartbeat, no internal organ functions, no circulation, no bodily functions at all. they are reanimated remains. they are rotting and falling apart.

without circulation and bodily functions, there would be no build up of acid in the muscles because they are dead and no acid would be created when they are moving, because.... they are dead.

Precisely!

Plus a couple of other things.

on this topic I was thinking about what those dudes were going back and forth about and one thing occurred to me that I don't think either of them brought up.

A zombie, is dead right? no heartbeat, no internal organ functions, no circulation, no bodily functions at all. they are reanimated remains. they are rotting and falling apart.

without circulation and bodily functions, there would be no build up of acid in the muscles because they are dead and no acid would be created when they are moving, because.... they are dead.

-unoshato

Sigh. Wish I had read this before I posted this afternoon. Heh. I had the same thought at work today and rushed to the Midnight Podcast forums to post it. Excellent observation by the way!

Most of you don't know this, but it is well known over at MOZ. If you ever have questions about real zombies, please feel free to ask me, as I have to deal with them rather frequently up here in Canada. I do believe there is some Darwinian evolution to this topic of running zombies.

floridapossum
keeping you norther borders safe

Hey, fellow Canadian!

Where do you keep your zombies? I keep mine out on the front yard in Toronto!

Oh they just roam all over the place here, difficult to tell them from all the people that just left the pub.

Maybe thats Romero films his dead movies in Canada now... cheaper on the extras

Running is an ability that would degrade over time. Even if there's no signifigant prior injury that would immobilize or slow the creature down. They would eventually rot. Sinew. Muscles. Tendons. All of the structure and design behind bi-pedal mobility.

Consider this also. The dead have been reknowned for determination. Rhiannon pointed the possibility of this out in her book. Some would be so desperate in their pursuit of food, they could run till literally they're legs and knees would blow out. They experience no pain, which is a reminder to the living counterparts (us) that we are damaging ourselves. They do not have the concept of this.