Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive
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Not to mention zombies on a treadmill with brains hanging in front of them as a source of infinite energy.
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@Nic But how do you get the brains to not spoil?
Presumably the zombies don't want rotten flesh. And more importantly, how do you get fresh brains?
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@DustinB3403 said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
@Nic But how do you get the brains to not spoil?
Presumably the zombies don't want rotten flesh. And more importantly, how do you get fresh brains?
That's what puts IT people in so much danger, more brains
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You missed a strategy for food.
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@DustinB3403 said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
@Nic But how do you get the brains to not spoil?
Presumably the zombies don't want rotten flesh. And more importantly, how do you get fresh brains?
Technically you don't need brains on the treadmill, I was just thinking of a comic I saw. The zombies just need to know you are inside and the treadmills have to be pointed towards the fortress. Your lovely brains wafting over the walls are all that is needed.
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@scottalanmiller said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
You missed a strategy for food.
Good point, but it's really simple.
We'd use modern Hydroponics where we grow food using LED water troughs. Like here
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And solar power to to power the LED's.
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Also the answer to users in a zombie apocalypse would be as zombie bait, so we could power those treadmills.... lol
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@DustinB3403 said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
@scottalanmiller said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
You missed a strategy for food.
Good point, but it's really simple.
We'd use modern Hydroponics where we grow food using LED water troughs. Like here
Takes time, a lot of time. Long term it might work if you really know what you are doing and have agricultural engineers with you.
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@DustinB3403 said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
@Nic But how do you get the brains to not spoil?
Presumably the zombies don't want rotten flesh. And more importantly, how do you get fresh brains?
By cutting open the skulls of stupid people. Easy peasy.
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@scottalanmiller said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
@DustinB3403 said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
@scottalanmiller said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
You missed a strategy for food.
Good point, but it's really simple.
We'd use modern Hydroponics where we grow food using LED water troughs. Like here
Takes time, a lot of time. Long term it might work if you really know what you are doing and have agricultural engineers with you.
Those agricultural engineers fall into the IT folk category.
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@scottalanmiller said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
@DustinB3403 said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
@scottalanmiller said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
You missed a strategy for food.
Good point, but it's really simple.
We'd use modern Hydroponics where we grow food using LED water troughs. Like here
Takes time, a lot of time. Long term it might work if you really know what you are doing and have agricultural engineers with you.
Hydroponic is a super easy way to grow if you have electricity and proper liquid nutrients.
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Also while the modern hydroponics system is being setup / growing you could supplement the food of the region with roof top gardens.
Which are well behind your fortified area.
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@DustinB3403 said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
Also while the modern hydroponics system is being setup / growing you could supplement the food of the region with roof top gardens.
Which are well behind your fortified area.
That's slower still. You'd be living off of the hydroponics before that roof top food was available. It's getting through till the farming takes off that is the problem.
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@scottalanmiller said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
@DustinB3403 said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
Also while the modern hydroponics system is being setup / growing you could supplement the food of the region with roof top gardens.
Which are well behind your fortified area.
That's slower still. You'd be living off of the hydroponics before that roof top food was available. It's getting through till the farming takes off that is the problem.
It might be, but if you're working on getting power / fortifications in place, you'd want the users to be useful. They can move dirt and make a basic roof top garden that would support the region.
Also there are about 6 million walmarts in every direction.
Not to mention the countless farms in almost every region.
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@RojoLoco said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
@scottalanmiller said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
@DustinB3403 said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
@scottalanmiller said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
You missed a strategy for food.
Good point, but it's really simple.
We'd use modern Hydroponics where we grow food using LED water troughs. Like here
Takes time, a lot of time. Long term it might work if you really know what you are doing and have agricultural engineers with you.
Hydroponic is a super easy way to grow if you have electricity and proper liquid nutrients.
you can do it without electricity pretty easily. you can substitute fish / aquaculture for the nutrient liquids if you really, really know what you are doing.
But yeah, access to the manufactured chemicals would be the killer. That would be harder to obtain than just normal food in that situation.
FYI... grew up on a farm, family has been farmers since before coming to the new world in 1635. I've visited and studied both of the NASA research hydroponic facilities, toured commercial hydroponics, done some study of hydroponics at Cornell (not as a student) and have read every major textbook on them on the market
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@DustinB3403 said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
@scottalanmiller said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
@DustinB3403 said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
Also while the modern hydroponics system is being setup / growing you could supplement the food of the region with roof top gardens.
Which are well behind your fortified area.
That's slower still. You'd be living off of the hydroponics before that roof top food was available. It's getting through till the farming takes off that is the problem.
It might be, but if you're working on getting power / fortifications in place, you'd want the users to be useful. They can move dirt and make a basic roof top garden that would support the region.
Also there are about 6 million walmarts in every direction.
Not to mention the countless farms in almost every region.
Farms would be picked clean in no time and very dangerous. Walmarts would be empty on day one.
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@scottalanmiller said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
Farms would be picked clean in no time and very dangerous. Walmarts would be empty on day one.
Walmarts would be, yes, but user vehicles / homes would be stocked full.
Also IT people would presumably have a large horde of supplies if something like this did occur.
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This is where you barter with Mennonite and Amish areas. You kill zombies in exchange for food/seeds, and training if you don't have it. They will need protection as many of them will not know or be willing to do much to protect themselves. And the Mennonites at least would be thrilled to teach.
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@DustinB3403 said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
@scottalanmiller said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
Farms would be picked clean in no time and very dangerous. Walmarts would be empty on day one.
Walmarts would be, yes, but user vehicles / homes would be stocked full.
Also IT people would presumably have a large horde of supplies if something like this did occur.
Your theory is dependent on a lot of assumptions that IT people will have unlimited access to food, unlimited access to transport and stockpiles, the ability to protect said caches before others come for them or zombies get you, etc. That's a lot of "this would solve all problems" as your underlying theory. Anyone who had reasonably unlimited access to water, food and security could just ride out the whole thing. Don't need to be IT people or even sentient at that point. If my cat had unlimited food, water and was in a secure facility it could outlive the zombies.
