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Zombie Domestication

  • 24-05-2008 6:13am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,584 ✭✭✭


    Just a thought, after the zombie wars have completed and providing every living person hasn't been wiped out. What would be the chances of training zombie to perform certain menial tasks and domesticating them for our own exploitation (Sort of like in Fido).

    They would be excellent for certain tasks that are too dangerous for humans. You could have them sent into minefields to detonate stray mines for example.
    Mining could be another ?

    Obviously some of the tasks would be limited by their poor flexibility and speed.

    Or would this be taking too much of chance ? Is it a bad idea to make the zombies domestic ? Is it better to exterminate them all and remove the threat completely ?

    Personally I think that while the domestication idea is good in theory, it would be better to eliminate them. All it would take is one stray bite to possibly start of an infestation once again.


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  • Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The problem with domestication is that the zombies would only survive a short number of years due to the rotting of the flesh. Any amount of time spent attempting to domesticate zombies would be limited by the lifespan, and also zombies cannot be 'raised' in a domestic environment since their reproductive organs, like their other organs, would be useless.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,872 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    Myth wrote: »
    The problem with domestication is that the zombies would only survive a short number of years due to the rotting of the flesh. Any amount of time spent attempting to domesticate zombies would be limited by the lifespan, and also zombies cannot be 'raised' in a domestic environment since their reproductive organs, like their other organs, would be useless.

    You could keep them in cold storage for later use?


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Yes cold storage would be a fantastic idea. It has been proven that the cold drastically effects the spread of the plague and the movement of Zombies, leaving areas like Alaska free.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭orestes


    Remember kids, a zombie is for life, not just for christmas.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,872 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    Yes cold storage would be a fantastic idea. It has been proven that the cold drastically effects the spread of the plague and the movement of Zombies, leaving areas like Alaska free.

    Ice cream Zombie!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 950 ✭✭✭Feral Mutant


    Wouldn't really be hygenic to have rotting corpses around the house (and don't get me started on intelligent or trained zombies). Plus I don't see how they'd really be useful unless your tasks involved eating people, in which case labour would be the least of your problems.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 510 ✭✭✭animan


    I dont think it would be possible to train them to do tasks but you could have them as entertainment like in shaun of the dead


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    Zombies are not like dogs. Remember one bite and putting them down is too late because you will be turned. I personally would not try to domesticate one. And I would avoid people who do.

    Damn Zombie Lovers. They would be the same people who go for Zombie Sex...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 75 ✭✭navin.r.johnson


    The undead could not be used as a viable resource. For starters the rate of workplace zombifications would go through the roof.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,503 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    In Day of the dead movie a scientist was experimenting on a Zombie by increasing it's brain capability, he called the Zombie Bub and the zombie could think better, he was able to use guns and recognise people

    If we could do something like this we could teach zombies to act more like humans


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭orestes


    Riddle101 wrote: »
    In Day of the dead movie a scientist was experimenting on a Zombie by increasing it's brain capability, he called the Zombie Bub and the zombie could think better, he was able to use guns and recognise people

    If we could do something like this we could teach zombies to act more like humans

    :eek:

    Why the hell would we want to teach zombies how to use guns?!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭Sod'o swords


    orestes wrote: »
    :eek:

    Why the hell would we want to teach zombies how to use guns?!

    Would you like to be (A) Torn limb from limb and then eaten alive?
    or (B) be shot dead instantly and then eaten......


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,523 ✭✭✭✭Nerin


    Would you like to be (A) Torn limb from limb and then eaten alive?
    or (B) be shot dead instantly and then eaten......
    Theres always a c option,if carlsberg has taught us anything.
    how about neither, and we dont teach em how to ue guns,and dont get torn limb from limb :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,503 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    orestes wrote: »
    :eek:

    Why the hell would we want to teach zombies how to use guns?!

    So that we could use them as cannonfodder in Wars rather then young inexperienced soldiers who are sent to wars at 18 years of age.

    Maybe if we could place some device in their brains we might be able to control them better


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,788 ✭✭✭tritium


    Myth wrote: »
    The problem with domestication is that the zombies would only survive a short number of years due to the rotting of the flesh. Any amount of time spent attempting to domesticate zombies would be limited by the lifespan, and also zombies cannot be 'raised' in a domestic environment since their reproductive organs, like their other organs, would be useless.

    Yes, but we could maintain the stock through the use of selected (ehem!) 'volunteers'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 510 ✭✭✭animan


    Riddle101 wrote: »
    Maybe if we could place some device in their brains we might be able to control them better

    I am so getting a remote control zombie next Christmas.


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