Why it's a Mind Blow: This should be clear. Zombies are bad. Real zombies are real bad.
Here's how it's happening. Scientists have learned that a mind-controlling fungus is attacking the brains of its victims. After seizing control of the zombie's faculties, the fungus directs its undead host to climb high up in a tree and forces the zombie to bite the juicy veins (of leafs). The living thing that was, at this point, is no more. As a fungal stem sprouts from the zombie's head, a rain of fungal spores takes to the wind, infecting those below and creating a new generation of tree climbing, head sprouting, mindless zombies.
But there's good news, for now (moo-hoo-ha-ha-haaaa). The zombie disease, at present, is only infecting some ants. It's a vicious fungus, and it has to make you stop and wonder just how much fiction there actually is to the science-fiction pop that predicts a similar fate for us humans.
Is our zombie fungus out there? Does the government know about it? Are there secret zombie bunkers waiting for Mit Romney and Tom Cruise in the soft limestone hills of Orange County?
The truth is out there.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis
Actually, I read a story about the Russian government using a weapon that attacks the motor functions of people and goes after their brains in very scary ways. They effectively are zombies after being hit with it. Me thinks our science and our ability to kill people is getting way to far ahead of our common sense. It is good, however, that we are recognizing the extent to diseases and possibilities with respect to human health. Zombies.....
ReplyDeleteDon't get too comfortable, because there is a mind controlling entity out there that is affecting many of us: Toxoplasma Gondii... shockingly high numbers of us (some think over %50 in some parts of the world) are infected with this cat borne parasite, which causes behavioral changes in some mammals, perhaps even in humans!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/how-your-cat-is-making-you-crazy/8873/
Yeah, I heard that Toxoplasma ... is likely responsible for Schizophrenia. Comes from cat poop created after eating dead rodents, infected with the parasite, controlling the brains of cats to help complete its life cycle or some such ... (there's a NPR radio story out there somewhere about it). Getting under the claws of cats, the scratched poop infects our houses, carpets, stuff and gets into our bodies ... KEEP YOUR CATS INDOORS!
DeleteThis Atlantic article is frightening, and may require a Mind Blow of its own down the road. In any case, when the Zombie Apocalypse does come, I know what I'm going to do. I'm so sick of watching people on TV and in movies fight zombies in Atlanta or the streets of their hometown. That's why I'm heading straight for the Yukon. A nice cabin, good fishing, and one zombie every ten square miles. And anyone who doesn't think of this, deserves their fate!
ReplyDelete