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That reminds me of when NASA had safety procedures for repelling a Viking attack. Don't think it's still out there but that's awesome!

That's really cool of them. I like the reasoning behind doing it as well.

lol. that is awesome. I am sad that it was taken away

I can not stay. State and Federal dollars go into these disaster plans. Not to mention the funds going to support his salary to write a contingency plan for an impossible event.

I remember reading an interview the Author of World War Z and The Zombie Survival Guide gave. He talked about how every person he interviewed while making his book had put at least some serious thought into a plan for a Zombie-like scenario. This is both unsettling and amusing.

sixpackshaker said:

I can not stay. State and Federal dollars go into these disaster plans. Not to mention the funds going to support his salary to write a contingency plan for an impossible event.

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So your saying an outbreak of something as simple as rabies is impossible? It's incredibly unlikely but there ARE legitimate situations where such plans could useful. At the very least, models of zombie outbreaks have proven to be interesting data when studied in comparison to other outbreak models.

You mean you haven't? :bush:

AshburnerX said:

I remember reading an interview the Author of World War Z and The Zombie Survival Guide gave. He talked about how every person he interviewed while making his book had put at least some serious thought into a plan for a Zombie-like scenario. This is both unsettling and amusing.

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While a "true zombie" (definition varies by what you believe) does not exist, but a biochemical hazard could happen. There are drugs that can cause mass hysteria maybe if it is communicable, it could be something like 28 days style rather than Zombieland style

It makes me sad that they thought they should take that contingency plan down. It was an easy and fun way to inject levity into the whole thing.

Hell, I don't know if my old university has contingency plans for this sort of thing, but if they had one for zombies, I'd look for curiosity's sake. I wonder if having such an obvious joke on the site might have led to a trickledown effect. Students read about the zombie plan, and when they're done, because they're there anyways, read all about the hurricane plan, or the H1N1 plan.

Hey- it *is* Florida, and it *can* be hard to tell the undead from the elderly sometimes. You have apparently never interrupted a BINGO game before. They can get REALLY pissed!

Bah - why is it that everyone has a zombie defence plan, but no Rapture defence? I mean, let's assume that the crazy fundamentalists are right, and that at some time in the near future some incomprehensible alien invader will come to Earth, snatch away a good part of the population for unspecified and mysterious purposes, and condemn the rest to eternal damnation for things like being attracted to the same sex or not going to church. I would like to believe that in those circumstances, our governments have the resources and preparation to plant a nuke right between that genocidal son-of-a-bitch's eyes.

Stay safe, kids, and remember - if you see anything glowing and winged descending from the heavens, shoot on sight.

Laurelai said:

Hey- it *is* Florida, and it *can* be hard to tell the undead from the elderly sometimes. You have apparently never interrupted a BINGO game before. They can get REALLY pissed!

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Then they shake their canes and walkers at you. It's a fearsome sight.

Now if we could just find where they were holding the exercise so we could play "Thriller" over a loud speaker part-way through. :slywink: