7 Scientific Reasons a Zombie Outbreak Would Quickly Fail

[Aegis]

See, way back when I started a zombie apocalypse story, it made perfect sense. Nanomachines! The victims were animated by invading nanos hijacking their nervous systems and brains. They got their metabolic energy either from low voltage electrical sources, ripping wire insulation off or draining the active nanos of the unaffected, or by breaking down the chemical energy from consumed flesh.

Had big plans for that one, started out on a little colony world on the far edges of space, led to a whole gotterdamerung scenario.

Things only got worse when the zombies started forming gestalts smart enough to pilot starships.

So... The Borg?

[Aaron]

If you mean tool using zombies, then yeah.

Not really though. They still bit people, got most of their fuel (for lack of a better word) by eating flesh. Pretty mindless most of the time, but fast. More 28 Days Later than Resident Evil. The gestalts were mostly just to use the ship for transportation and they'd turn the ship into a kind of seed pod (at least that was the plan, never made it past chapter one) that would break apart whenever they encountered another ship. Try to board and such.

[randy]

I for one, would welcome our new Zombie overlords

[skb12172]

Is Zombie, Is Chomp!

[Frankingun]

Personally, I could see a zombie apocalypse like in the movie Zombieland, where an infection makes people go nuts, though In the movie it was spread by biting.