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Title: Zombie Cockroaches!
Post by: Blaze on December 01, 2007, 01:37:10 AM
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/30/0431246

Oh boy!
Title: Re: Zombie Cockroaches!
Post by: Sidoh on December 01, 2007, 01:39:46 AM
Awesome!
Title: Re: Zombie Cockroaches!
Post by: Towelie on December 01, 2007, 02:53:11 AM
Did the meter go up yet?
Title: Re: Zombie Cockroaches!
Post by: iago on December 01, 2007, 11:13:54 AM
Quote from: Towelie on December 01, 2007, 02:53:11 AM
Did the meter go up yet?
I don't think it's worth raising the meter, but I did write a story about it (http://www.zombiemeter.org/index.php?subaction=view&story_id=78).
Title: Re: Zombie Cockroaches!
Post by: Blaze on December 01, 2007, 03:45:54 PM
Quote from: iago on December 01, 2007, 11:13:54 AM
Quote from: Towelie on December 01, 2007, 02:53:11 AM
Did the meter go up yet?
I don't think it's worth raising the meter, but I did write a story about it (http://www.zombiemeter.org/index.php?subaction=view&story_id=78).

We're one step closer to the Zombie Apocalypse!
Title: Re: Zombie Cockroaches!
Post by: dark_drake on December 01, 2007, 04:31:26 PM
Are they really zombies, though? I didn't think zombiism was something we could cure.
Title: Re: Zombie Cockroaches!
Post by: iago on December 01, 2007, 05:14:00 PM
Quote from: dark_drake on December 01, 2007, 04:31:26 PM
Are they really zombies, though? I didn't think zombiism was something we could cure.
It's classic, Haitian, Voodoo-style zombies, not Romero ones. They're completely different and distinct (mainly, Voodoo-style zombies aren't dead)
Title: Re: Zombie Cockroaches!
Post by: rabbit on December 02, 2007, 10:13:40 AM
Actually, Voodoo style zombies CAN be dead, they just typically aren't
Title: Re: Zombie Cockroaches!
Post by: iago on December 02, 2007, 11:38:20 AM
Well, from all the sources I've seen (everything from The Serpent and the Rainbow to White Zombie to The King of the Zombies), voodoo zombies are people that have been given a drug that simulates the appearance of death for a brief period (a few hours to a few days). I can't offhand think of any where the zombie is actually dead, although I could be missing something.
Title: Re: Zombie Cockroaches!
Post by: rabbit on December 02, 2007, 02:25:48 PM
There was a guy who was dead for a while (like...a few months) and then resumed living.  I forget the details, but I do remember seeing it on the Discovery Channel's show about zombies.  Also, another form of Voodoo zombie is basically a lobotomized person who is used as cheap/slave labor.
Title: Re: Zombie Cockroaches!
Post by: Blaze on December 02, 2007, 05:51:57 PM
Quote from: rabbit on December 02, 2007, 02:25:48 PM
There was a guy who was dead for a while (like...a few months) and then resumed living.  I forget the details, but I do remember seeing it on the Discovery Channel's show about zombies.  Also, another form of Voodoo zombie is basically a lobotomized person who is used as cheap/slave labor.

I remember watching something on Discovery about that a while back, too.
Title: Re: Zombie Cockroaches!
Post by: AntiVirus on December 03, 2007, 01:51:06 AM
That is pretty awesome. :D