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A terrifying thought

ShadusnoxShadusnox
in The Walking Dead

So I was looking online about guns (I'm strange)

Turns out, the bullets used in most guns are designed to pass straight through the body (or brain) doing as little internal damage as possible, there have been quite a few people who have survived direct shots to the head ( not counting the brain damage) apparently when using a low caliber gun (like Clem's) a direct shot to the head, when the victim is facing directly at the direction the bullet came from, at a range of around 10m you have about a one in ten chance of surviving the shot (again not including the horrible brain damage you will likely receive, it's just for if you live or not)

Why is this terrifying? Because walkers have the same skulls as humans do ( we can also see from the game, and comics that while the face rots off the skull is normally fine) but it doesn't matter right, does it matter which part of the walker brain is destroyed? YES IT DOES! We can see when Clem fights the walker in the shed, that the first hit breaks the skull and the second hit damages the brain but the walker is still moving. you can actually see walkers with damaged brains that are still "alive " quite a few times, especially when the group fights them with melee weapons. Since walkers can't really suffer from brain damage or trauma, these walkers are still just as dangerous.

This leads to the terrifying moment when you shoot a walker right in the face, And it doesn't die

Please tell me this can't happen....

Comments

  • CeaserMartinezCeaserMartinez Banned

    The skulls are rotten so the guns will fit not worry!

  • theonystheonys

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    “Zombies have attention-locking problems. When they see something, they fixate. It resembles damage to the parietal lobe (1)—a condition called Bálint’s syndrome. So a zombie will fixate on you, but if you can distract it, it might lose track of you entirely. Zombies are stiff and have balance problems because of damage to the cerebellum (2). It’s the same way you feel when you’re really drunk—you’re suppressing the cerebellum too.” —Timothy Verstynen, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition

    “In a human, the brain stem, at the top of the spinal cord, is responsible for the core functions of life—respiration, heartbeat. But since zombies don’t breathe or have heartbeats, the core function of the zombie’s existence is controlled by the part of the brain that controls appetite: the hypothalamus (3). If you hit a zombie right between the eyes with enough force, you can go straight back horizontally into the hypothalamus.” —Bradley Voytek

    So yeah. Aim for hypothalamus and you'll be fine.

  • RyleeRylee

    then you shoot the walker again.

  • mr.qualitymr.quality

    Well t really depends on what type of round you are using,a hollow point will expand upon entry (shrapnel). Where as a standard round will be designed to travel straight through the target. Different rounds will do different things.

  • sialarksialark
    edited August 2014

    I would imagine you'd aim for the motor cortices (the parts that control muscle movement.) Even if the hypothalamus is intact, the walker can move. And if it can still move, it can still scratch/bite you, even by accident. If it's paralyzed, then if can't attack you, even if it's hungry. Here's a picture of the human motor cortices from wiki, indicating different regions that have to with the actual muscle movement or the decision to make the movement etc.:

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    It's just the most superficial (the topmost layer) of the brain indicated in those colors.

    theonys posted: »

    “Zombies have attention-locking problems. When they see something, they fixate. It resembles damage to the parietal lobe (1)—a condition cal

  • theonystheonys

    You're right. But I think hypothalamus would do a trick as well - if walker doesn't want to eat you it's harmless

    sialark posted: »

    I would imagine you'd aim for the motor cortices (the parts that control muscle movement.) Even if the hypothalamus is intact, the walker ca

  • mr.qualitymr.quality

    I have no clue about what you just said, but cool! I'll keep it in mind next time I kill a walker.

    sialark posted: »

    I would imagine you'd aim for the motor cortices (the parts that control muscle movement.) Even if the hypothalamus is intact, the walker ca

  • sialarksialark
    edited August 2014

    I also forgot to mention the hypothalamus is really really small, maybe the size of the tip of your thumb at the biggest. Have a giffy:

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    It's that teeny tiny red thing you can see best when you're looking at the skull "in the eye", and is really hard to get to cause it's so far in there. But like you said, I bet both would work. :P

    theonys posted: »

    You're right. But I think hypothalamus would do a trick as well - if walker doesn't want to eat you it's harmless

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