IMO there should be a lot more bikes in Zombie movies / books, or anything else post-apocalyptic.
If civilization collapses, you’re not going to be able to get gas for your internal combustion engine. Gas has a pretty short shelf life, so even if you stocked up you’d be running out soon. If you have something electric you’re better off, but charging those to full without a working grid will take multiple days on home solar panels.
Chances are the streets will also be filled with vehicles. A big vehicle like a car is going to have trouble getting through. A bike will squeeze through much smaller gaps. And, if necessary you can lift it up and over something.
Zombies can magically disintegrate cars at any range, as long as they have line of sight. This means that fleeing from a Zombie in a car is foolish. However, this ability can be used against Zombies. By building your base in such a way that one needs to climb over a car, such as by using a car as a bridge over a moat, you have build a base which will trick 80% of Zombies into making it inaccessible. Any respectable horde is virtually guaranteed to have at least one Zombie who will fall for it.
Obviously, since 5% of Zombies are capable siege engineers, you can’t fully rely on any sort of static defense to keep a Zombie horde away.
When killing a Zombie, keep in mind that the plant animating them can jury rig most injuries. Hence, zombies should ideally be incinerated, but if that is unavailable covering them will prevent sunlight from hitting the plants, and thus the plant won’t be able to fix the Zombie to a point where it can move again. The Zombie plant is immune to all commercially available herbicides. Military herbicide HC73 is the most efficient. Care must be taken before deployment of HC73, as the herbicide will render land infertile for 2 to 5 decades.
Zombies are significantly impaired at night, as key parts of their metabolism rely on photosynthesis. Keep in mind that sunlight deprivation is insufficient to kill a Zombie, no matter how long it is deprived of sunlight.
IMO there should be a lot more bikes in Zombie movies / books, or anything else post-apocalyptic.
If civilization collapses, you’re not going to be able to get gas for your internal combustion engine. Gas has a pretty short shelf life, so even if you stocked up you’d be running out soon. If you have something electric you’re better off, but charging those to full without a working grid will take multiple days on home solar panels.
Chances are the streets will also be filled with vehicles. A big vehicle like a car is going to have trouble getting through. A bike will squeeze through much smaller gaps. And, if necessary you can lift it up and over something.
Zombies can magically disintegrate cars at any range, as long as they have line of sight. This means that fleeing from a Zombie in a car is foolish. However, this ability can be used against Zombies. By building your base in such a way that one needs to climb over a car, such as by using a car as a bridge over a moat, you have build a base which will trick 80% of Zombies into making it inaccessible. Any respectable horde is virtually guaranteed to have at least one Zombie who will fall for it.
Obviously, since 5% of Zombies are capable siege engineers, you can’t fully rely on any sort of static defense to keep a Zombie horde away.
When killing a Zombie, keep in mind that the plant animating them can jury rig most injuries. Hence, zombies should ideally be incinerated, but if that is unavailable covering them will prevent sunlight from hitting the plants, and thus the plant won’t be able to fix the Zombie to a point where it can move again. The Zombie plant is immune to all commercially available herbicides. Military herbicide HC73 is the most efficient. Care must be taken before deployment of HC73, as the herbicide will render land infertile for 2 to 5 decades.
Zombies are significantly impaired at night, as key parts of their metabolism rely on photosynthesis. Keep in mind that sunlight deprivation is insufficient to kill a Zombie, no matter how long it is deprived of sunlight.
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