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Zombies vs Self-aware Machines
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More Terrifying? Zombie Uprising
The hordes of flesh eating monstrosities descend upon your boarded up house. Loading your shotgun, you manage to hold off the onslaught for hours. Eventually, however, there are just too many of them and you are dragged off into the darkness to join their growing numbers. This is the Zombie Apocalypse, and it is the most terrifying doomsday scenario because… BRAINS! DELICIOUS GRAY MATTER MUST BE CONSUMED! Whoa. What was that? Anyways, the Zombie Apocalypse is the most terrifying end of days scenario because of two central reasons: The Extinction of Humanity and Human Psychological Behavior You know, I don’t feel so good… SMELL FLESH. LIMP TO FLESH. EAT FLESH. Maybe I should get that bite looked at? Anyways the Zombie Apocalypse will destroy all of humanity. The only goals zombies have are to kill or transform all Homo sapiens into the walking dead. They are unrelenting in this goal and cannot be stopped because they are an army of undead that doesn’t need the essentials a living army needs. After Zombies sweep the Earth, humans will be gone. In the robot apocalypses the machines tend to keep humans around for some reason. In The Matrix it’s for fuel. In The Terminator it’s for the purpose of creating Terminator Robots. With robots destroying the world there always seems to be hope for humanity. When was the last time you saw a hopeful Zombie film? One of the scarier ideas about the Zombie Apocalypse is how humans will react to the end of the world, when the destruction is caused by their friends and family. In The Zombie Survival Guide, by Max Brooks, the author writes that one of the most dangerous aspects of the undead doomsday is your fellow human. Would you be willing to hack your loved ones into pieces in order to survive? Would you be able to kill another person if they cracked under sheer pressure? This test of morality is extremely terrifying and, unsurprisingly, not present in a robot apocalypse. So remember, the most terrifying apocalypse is that of the zombie because… urgh … ZOMBIE WANT TO EAT YOUR FACE!!!! |
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More Terrifying?
Eagle Eye. The Matrix. Terminator. All are movies about machines that are self-aware and attack humans. This phenomenon is much more terrifying than a zombie uprising because it is infinitely more realistic and more difficult for humans to survive. Zombies are literally stupid. They lurch around and can be killed. Kill all of the zombies, and the uprising is over. Machines, however, are much harder to destroy (to kill a zombie, blow off its head. Some machines can’t be destroyed without a diamond saw or a nuke). They can repair themselves and are made of the toughest metals. And they are smart. In Eagle Eye, one machine is able to manipulate all of the electronics in the nation to almost kill the entire White House cabinet. Combine that with the infinite amount of machines in the Matrix, and humanity is doomed. The war between Machine and Man destroyed the Earth in the Matrix. Zombies could never destroy the earth, as they can only use their teeth to kill people, while machines use other, more powerful weapons. The one surefire defense against machines is an Electro-Magnetic-Pulse, which is real and cuts any electricity. However, if machines became self-aware, they would lock down and then destroy all experimental EMP devices. After that, it would be much harder to destroy machines. Machines are smarter than zombies. The first self-aware machines would look on the Internet to find the human leaders and geniuses, and then they would kill the leaders to start the war, a bit like in Eagle Eye, where the machine almost killed the President. Zombies just eat people. Machines can be a real threat if we are not careful, but zombies are just a person’s nightmare, imaginative, and downright unreal. The Winner: Machines. Duh. |
