Frozen zombies?

[iago]

Settle an argument I'm having. :)

[Hitmen]

Absolutely. While the freezing process may cause some damage to the brain as any remaining juices solidify, it would hardly be the kind of catastrophic damage necessary to completely disable the walking dead.

[rabbit]

Freezer burn.

[dark_drake]

I'm fairly sure it's dependent on the method of freezing. For example, if a cryoprotectant were used to protect the cells, it'd be just fine. However, if it were just slowly frozen and nice large crystals were allowed to form, not so much. :(

[iago]

I'm fairly sure it's dependent on the method of freezing. For example, if a cryoprotectant were used to protect the cells, it'd be just fine. However, if it were just slowly frozen and nice large crystals were allowed to form, not so much. :(

Well, the original argument was about whether or not they'd survive the winter, so I'll take your answer as "no".

[dark_drake]

I'm fairly sure it's dependent on the method of freezing. For example, if a cryoprotectant were used to protect the cells, it'd be just fine. However, if it were just slowly frozen and nice large crystals were allowed to form, not so much. :(

Well, the original argument was about whether or not they'd survive the winter, so I'll take your answer as "no".

But how much data do you have on the migratory patterns of zombies? I'm fairly sure that's important. :P

[iago]

I'm fairly sure it's dependent on the method of freezing. For example, if a cryoprotectant were used to protect the cells, it'd be just fine. However, if it were just slowly frozen and nice large crystals were allowed to form, not so much. :(

Well, the original argument was about whether or not they'd survive the winter, so I'll take your answer as "no".

But how much data do you have on the migratory patterns of zombies? I'm fairly sure that's important. :P

I don't think they have the intelligence to migrate, but good thought. :)

[Joe]

Are you saying that zombies are non-migratory?

[Armin]

I'm fairly sure it's dependent on the method of freezing. For example, if a cryoprotectant were used to protect the cells, it'd be just fine. However, if it were just slowly frozen and nice large crystals were allowed to form, not so much. :(

Well, the original argument was about whether or not they'd survive the winter, so I'll take your answer as "no".

But how much data do you have on the migratory patterns of zombies? I'm fairly sure that's important. :P

I don't think they have the intelligence to migrate, but good thought. :)

Is migration a trait of intelligence? Birds aren't so smart, and they migrate.

[Blaze]

Survive the winter, or survive the winter in Winnipeg?  Most humans can't do the latter :P

[iago]

I'm fairly sure it's dependent on the method of freezing. For example, if a cryoprotectant were used to protect the cells, it'd be just fine. However, if it were just slowly frozen and nice large crystals were allowed to form, not so much. :(

Well, the original argument was about whether or not they'd survive the winter, so I'll take your answer as "no".

But how much data do you have on the migratory patterns of zombies? I'm fairly sure that's important. :P

I don't think they have the intelligence to migrate, but good thought. :)

Is migration a trait of intelligence? Birds aren't so smart, and they migrate.

Intelligence was the wrong word. While it's true that zombies exist purely on instinct, I'm not sure that humans (for the most part) have the instinctive need to go south for winter.

Maybe the elderly zombies.. :)

[Armin]

Humans also don't have the instinctive nature to eat brains. I'd say that if zombies cannot survive being frozen, then eventually the zombie-parasite/virus will evolve, and the zombie will have migration instincts to survive winters if it doesn't already.

[iago]

Humans also don't have the instinctive nature to eat brains. I'd say that if zombies cannot survive being frozen, then eventually the zombie-parasite/virus will evolve, and the zombie will have migration instincts to survive winters if it doesn't already.

Humans do, however, have the instinctive nature to reproduce, to eat, and to fuck each other over, and that's what zombies are doing.

Zombies don't specifically eat brains. That's a misconception perpetrated by Return of the Living Dead, which was NOT made by a respectable film maker. In the Return of the Living Dead mythos, zombies cannot be killed, ever.

[MyndFyre]

As http://redvsblue.com/archive/?id=226 clearly indicates, Alaska is the safest place to be in the event of a zombie invasion.  They'd be corpsicled!

[Towelie]

The virus that creates a zombie produces a sort of antifreeze in the blood stream, which is absorbed by all portions of the body, much like creatures that live in the sub-freezing waters of the arctic. Therefore the zombies can live in sub-freezing temperatures without the ice forming in damaging ways.