I learned today that the creator of the Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman, said very interestingly that the cause of Zombies is "space spores". I was left thinking this was indeed an ingenious and rather plausible, well thought out explanation.
I think that we need to be very vary of biological materials and the risk posed from outer sp██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████, they may be able to survive space travel by way of contaminating a space use vehicular system or space based object such as a meteorite, and upon entering Earth successfully, they should be able to spread with rampancy.
What if it wasn't an asteroid or meteorite that killed the dinosaurs? What if it was an alien disease instead? What if it wasn't a volcano eruption -- but radiation or something else, instead?
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I was surprised, and then quickly not surprised when I heard Bill Gates explain that new disease is something that can kill a lot of people quickly. Microsoft and Bungie released Halo, which discusses The Flood, a space spore like sentient, intelligent alien life form that parasites and spreads like a virus; I can't tell the difference between a fungus or virus or bacteria, they're all micro organisms, right?
In my country, Sri Lanka, there is widespread panic and concern over ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
This makes sense.
I hope things improve. We live in very sad, perilous times. Nothing is certain anymore. I hope we learn from these experiences and try to avoid and respond to a full blown zombie apocalypse.
I know it sounds strange, or from a Hollywood movie, or comic book adaptation, but I think the military needs to be ready for such a Day Z incident.████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
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I dunno, I remembered the Robert Kirkman origin story for zombies being space spores, and I realised, he had a point. What are we going to do if that did happen? 😬
