Quick, someone get those guys some water, they ain't looking too good!

Ok, so while working on my to do list (see previous blog entry), I realized something:

A zombie apocalypse would only last a few weeks. Think about it. Theres only so long they can stay hydrated off of blood, but after that they would have no source of hydration. They aren't smart enough to open a water bottle and chug it, no, if they were that smart they wouldn't be called a zombie, they would be called a cannibal.

So how in all the games and movies do they do it? How do they go months without a drink? It'd kill a human, and a zombie is basically a sick human, so therefor, it'd kill a zombie. This being said, I set off to think of how they could survive.

The first thing to come to mind is blood. If they ate enough flesh the blood would keep them hydrated. But they would eventually run out of people right? They wouldn't stop until every uninfected man, woman, and child, were brain food. But then think of the few humans out of their reach, the ones in fancy, rich, private bunkers, with no risk of zombie breach. Once the zombies ran out of people to eat, zombies would die out, and the rich people could leave and begin re-population. So "Z-day" wouldn't last all that long.


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But then, out of the corner of my mind came an idea. What if they, being the stupid creatures that they are, kept their mouths open while it rained, and got enough water to get by on? Impossible you say? I think not. Look at it like this. They keep their mouths open 90% of the time. They shuffle with their heads cocked to the side, or hanging back. This would make it easy for some rain water to get in their mouths, and what are they gonna do other then just swallow it? Spit it out? Unlikely. But then again it might not rain enough to save the undead. Who knows? Nature might do us a favor and kill off the zombies.


Rain, rain, go away. Don't let those zombies live today.

In popular games the zombies last forever. Its unrealistic if you think of it. I mean, take RE for example. You could leave that console running for 3 days, and the zombies wouldn't drop dead. They would still stand there, just waiting, Untiring, unwavering, relentless creatures.

And that brings me to another point, while on the subject of RE. Would Lickers dehydrate too? They USED to be human right? Could they die from lack of blood and water? The world may never know, because Capcom won't make their games like that.


How awkward would it be to talk to that guy? Tongue flopping around on every word.

Then again, what fun would it be if they DID dehydrate? I would honestly prefer to blow their brains out with a shotgun myself =D

So next time you play a zombie game, think of this: "Maybe if I wait long enough it'll dehydrate and die!", because if it were in real life, it just might.

-Spike