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  • Author Author: Catwell
  • Date Created: 12 Dec 2016 3:01 AM Date Created
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Engineering THE WALKING DEAD - the perpetual motion generator

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12 Dec 2016

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  • Catwell
    Catwell over 8 years ago in reply to hnrbnd +2
    Jay Watson, I don't believe that zombies from The Walking Dead universe were found or shown to eat for energy. Their systems were reactivated by the virus. They stop moving only when they are completely…
  • mcb1
    mcb1 over 8 years ago +1
    Interesting idea. I thought that zombies migrate to humans in order to convert them into zombies. If that is the case you'd need something at the end that the zombie thought was a human, ie more than 1…
  • spannerspencer
    spannerspencer over 8 years ago in reply to mcb1 +1
    Yeah, like a carrot and stick kind of set up, to keep the zombies in motion. The movie practically writes itself.
  • spannerspencer
    spannerspencer over 8 years ago in reply to Catwell

    Indeed. Logan established in Day of the Dead -- with immense gore and graphic content -- how the zombies aren't eating for sustenance, by removing the stomach and internal organs from one, and showing how it still tried to bite him! I won't put a screen grab on here, as that bit's particularly visceral, though image

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    Catwell over 8 years ago in reply to hnrbnd

    Jay Watson,

     

    I don't believe that zombies from The Walking Dead universe were found or shown to eat for energy. Their systems were reactivated by the virus. They stop moving only when they are completely decayed away. (Even then... they are still active.)

     

    George A. Romero's universe (which the walking dead was originally based in, first pages drawn), the zombies could be stripped of everything but a nervous system and the core of the brain - and still function. (see Day of the Dead)

     

    It was the remake of the film "Dawn of the Dead" where the director/writer showed the zombies losing weight as the show went on. But, this is an isolated film.

     

    Cabe

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    hnrbnd over 8 years ago

    Also, Two words to make us all go nuts: Matrix Zombies!!! Oxymoron, or (literall) mind blowing event?

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    hnrbnd over 8 years ago

    I love this. And, yes it would totally work mechanically with some tweaking... with one exception. Conservation of energy. I may be wrong on all  genres, but zombies EAT the living for food. They get their energy from this consumption. People who are unfortunate enough to only be bitten turn. Therefore, without a viable food source, the zombie battery deck of 250 would quickly need replenishing.

    So, either set up a harvesting crew to collect replacement zombies (again big box stores are a good start), put together a feed farm (I remember zombies like meat, but poultry and or fish might do as well). Of course optimization can occur too, along with dropping down the load requirements to maybe just your super cool compound... and switching to all LED lights.

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    mcb1 over 8 years ago in reply to Catwell

    All the not abandoned gyms and fitness centers

    Only ever seen pictures, but yes that would cover it.

     

    Sync'ing the inverter outputs might be the big headache, but only if you wanted to connect to a grid, where there is a single Juman guarding 250 of them.

     

     

    This almost sounds like a Myth Busters Episode ...

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