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Post by Faith on May 13, 2009 12:11:22 GMT -5
*Laugh!!!*  ... What would they do in Idaho...? XD |
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Post by bloodreaper on May 13, 2009 20:05:01 GMT -5
Idaho is a very complex geographical system, but here's the basic breakdown.
It depends on the origin point, vectors and rate of spread.
If the more heavily armed citizens of the more mountainous north have enough time, they might be able to block some of the passes and pick off the zombies as they come. Once those defenses are overrun, the defenders can fall back to NorAD bunkers, fortified towns and survivalist compounds and continue the fight. Organization and leadership will have a larger impact than in larger more open Texan front, but if the right cards are played the final rounds will look fairly similar, as both states have plentiful supplies of people who actually prepare for this sort of thing, as well as military resources. The eventual victor is a matter of whether the barricades and ammo hold out longer than the zombies' numbers.
Remember to aim for the head.
The flatter and more populous southern portion of the state is probably zombie food, even though they have a generous allotment of soldiers and sportsmen of their own.
The terrain is too open and the highways will bring the infection into the population centers too fast, for southern Idaho to be a good place to fight a zombie horde. You're not as likely to find a guy who just happens to keep a modern armory in his basement there, either.
If the plague doesn't spread too fast, and the government can mobilize while the problem is still regional and not national in scale, some cities might be spared by quarantine and military intervention, but the standard zombie survival scenario assumes that government intervention is delayed until it's too late, while the military attempts to uncover the nature of the attack.
Boise and most towns on the Canadian shipping lines are probably going to be lost no matter what. Carpet bombing these areas with incendiary cruise missiles is probably the best use of Air Force resources, unless large concentrations of zombies can be spotted in the desert, away from living civilians.
Additional factors are whether the zombies are effected by desert heat or mountain cold, and how much, but I estimate that this is the most probable scenario.
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Post by Fox on May 26, 2009 0:00:53 GMT -5
It's a quote, but it works better, with the image:  Because words cannot even begin to describe my avatar. |
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Post by Faith on May 26, 2009 14:51:18 GMT -5
*Laugh!!!* (To both, haven't been responding a lot, here.  ) Hm... Okay. I was just sitting with my friends, eating lunch, and... I don't know how we breached this topic... but... one of them said this. XD "Your face is so white it's a racist joke." Admittedly, I never found much in this form of humor. Maybe it was circumstance... but that one got me. XD |
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Post by Faith on Jun 3, 2009 0:31:29 GMT -5
Okay, so, there seems to not be a lot of conversation going on, and I therefore deem it acceptable for me to double-post. ? My uncle came to visit a while ago, and he brought this book called 1001 Dumbest Things Ever Said. ;D Anyway, I'll probably drop a few in here every once in a while, when I can. Heh. They're pretty funny. XD Soon I'll have more time, too... Tomorrow is my last final. I'm going to Thursday, the make-up day, because I'm turning in some projects then, but I don't really have anything to do there and I technically consider tomorrow my last day of school. (Yay! ^-^ ) So... Here's the first one: "Thanks for the poncho." -Bill Clinton, when gifted with the tri-colored Romanian flag while on a visit to the country. |
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Post by Fox on Jun 3, 2009 13:58:47 GMT -5
I was in the process of moving. >.>
Heh..I have a calendar, like that. 83
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Post by Faith on Jun 4, 2009 17:26:53 GMT -5
*Laugh!!!* I don't think anyone minds your being busy.  What kind of move is it, anyway? Alright, I'm putting them in here in order, and they start in politics... XD "I've read bout foreign policy and studied; I now know the number of continents." -George Wallace, in his 1986 presidential campaign. "It has not worked. No one can say it has worked, so I decided we're either going to do what we said we're going to do with the UN, or we're going to do something else." -Bill Clinton, on the UN operation in Bosnia "As I was telling my husb-... As I was telling president Bush..." -Condoleezza Rice, unmarried national security advisor "It's not true that the congressman was sleeping during the debate. He was just taking a few moments for deep reflection." -aid to Rep. Martin Hoke, who was spotted on the House of Representatives floor with eyes closed during a debate "I think we're on the road to answers that I don't think any of us in total feel we have the answers to." -Kim Anderson, mayor of Naples, Florida. "You reporters should have print what he meant, not what he said." Earl Bush, aid to Chicago mayor, Richard Daley "A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it is proven." -Jean Chretien. "Give Bill a second term, and Al Gore and I will be turned loose to do what we really want to do." -Hillary Clinton, speaking at a 1996 Democratic fundraiser. "We've got a strong candidate. I'm trying to think of his name." -Senator Christopher Dodd "I will take time to restore chaos and order." -President Bush |
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Post by Fox on Jun 4, 2009 22:00:11 GMT -5
*while watching Underworld, with cousin*
"Okay. You and I are going to make a vampire movie, where they do not burn, or, for the love of god, do not sparkle, in sunlight."
~me
Seriously. Why does sunlight=bad?
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Post by Dragyn on Jun 5, 2009 18:09:54 GMT -5
It's tradition. That's why.
Blame the Europeans.
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Post by Fox on Jun 6, 2009 15:59:59 GMT -5
On the contrary, there are many many vampire legends, where sunlight does not harm them. As far as I can tell, there's really been no(or very little) real, written evidence suggesting that sunlight kills them.
At least...that's what several folklore websites said.
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Post by Dragyn on Jun 7, 2009 11:08:41 GMT -5
I've never studied vampires overmuch, I'm afraid. I do believe that at least a few of the Dracula myths had sunlight damage him, but...I've never actually read them.
For the record, Symmetraxis' Vampires are not generally affected by sunlight, except in a few particular cases, since I never thought the whole "sunlight kills them" thing made any sense.
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Post by Fox on Jun 7, 2009 13:57:59 GMT -5
Well, the Dracula books/movies mixed a bunch of different vampire lore. The different things that harm him, are all from seperate cultures and religions. Over time, they have become tradition.
Most of the methods one thinks of, involving vampire slaying, were set in our minds, by media. If you want to kill a vampire, it would depend soley on what folklore you're referring to.
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Post by bloodreaper on Jun 13, 2009 2:09:55 GMT -5
Before Bram Stoker there was never a safe bet on what might harm a given vampire, but his book was popular enough to establish the list of weaknesses he used as the most common standard.
Breaking away from Stoker's sunlight and stakes is almost always a deliberate subversion of the readers expectations.
I can roll with sunlight destroying their dark magics and causing them to crumble into the dust they ought to be; I just cant figure out why wooden stakes are better for stabbing them in the heart.
If a wooden stake can kill him, why not a steel bar, or and anti-tank round? So long as his heart is destroyed and prevented from regenerating, it should end him.
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Post by Faith on Jun 19, 2009 13:18:56 GMT -5
Heh. I saw an interesting movie a while ago wherein Judas was the first vampire and the stake was relevant because he attempted to hang himself from a tree, and the stake had to be of the same kind of tree as Judas had hanged himself from. However, they thoroughly mixed their history up, because they applied the condemnation to walk forever without rest to Judas, rather than Malchus, to make the whole vampire thing more applicable. Judas also died, according to the Bible, one way or the other. *Shrug* It was an interesting idea, but I never said it was accurate. I haven't really been on here in a while... heh. I've been busy preparing for my half-brother to show up. He might, it seems, live with us for a while. He was emancipated from his mother and has been living on the streets. No one in my family has seen or communicated with him since I was three or four... heh. So I'm kinda excited. Also... well, while a house is probably better than the streets, I have been trying to make it more... hospitable... seeing as he would be the fifth person in a 20' 28' house... It could fit in many of the classrooms I've seen. XD Well, I rediscovered that book with the quotes in it, and I will maybe say a few, as it rather reminded me about the forum in the first place. But only a few... it appears that having been busied away from the computer for such an extended period of time has resulted in my inability to keep things short... It's like I have to compensate, or something... ;D "Poultry waste... is something that continues to threaten our country." Tom Dascble, Senator from South Dakota "You always write it's bombing, bombing, bombing. It's not bombing, it's air support." -David Opfer, U.S. Air Force colonel, Criticizing reporter's coverage of the Vietnam War "A Zebra cannot change its spots." -Al Gore |
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Post by Dragyn on Jun 21, 2009 7:15:43 GMT -5
"I'm not gonna' rob a bank, though that reminds me--what's your address?"
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