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Post by Ashe on Aug 19, 2009 7:20:06 GMT -5
But what I'm also wondering is..if it was able to cross continents...then did it spread air born and if it did why were those in the convoy left alive? I can understand there would be some with some kind of immunity to the virus, but then LJ wouldn't have turned when bitten. Another good question. Think of it like the Swine Flu. Someone gets cut or scratched by an animal that is infected, and not knowing that anything is wrong with the animal gets on a plane to Europe. He or she begins to feel ill, but thinks it's just the flu so they just go on with normal life. When they do finally "die" they then go on their endless search for food, infecting all they can munch on, quickly spreading the disease. Only the movies, (specifically the first one) mention anything about it being airborne. Before RE Zero came out, it was assumed that there was an accident in the mansion that started it all. That most likely would have been someone dropping a vial of the Tvirus, which caused the uncontrollable spreading of the disease. But Zero says that James Marcus purposefully started the outbreak. So canon doesn't say that it is airborne, but it also doesn't come right out and say that it isn't. I think it makes sense that it could be airborne then quickly lose it's potency as the "vapors" evaporate, leaving only those infected to spread it through direct contact. As to some people having a natural immunity. I'm sure there probably are people who would have it. But they most certainly would be in the minority. As with all diseases, there is always some who won't be affected by it.
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Post by Ashe on Aug 18, 2009 6:43:00 GMT -5
It was a good question and I'm sure others have wondered about it too.
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Post by Ashe on Aug 17, 2009 6:18:09 GMT -5
I'm sorry but I really didn't get that last part. Well when you die, your body starts the process of decomposing almost immediately. A big part of how quickly the body decomposes depends on the weather conditions and the type of embalming (If any, some religions don't allow it.) Hot and wet burials tend to decompose much faster than cool and dry condition burials. This is why sometimes in places like Egypt they find mummified remains when no real mummification process was used. They are "natural" mummies. The Tvirus has the ability to affect both the dead and the living. To a dead person it merely reanimates them, and since they were dead to begin with, they were already decomposing and the Tviurs probably slows the process down. But when it is used on a living person, they seem to sicken and then die. The wounds appear to look and behave in similar fashion as gangrene or a severely infected wound. Gangrene is the death of body tissue due to the loss of blood supply to that tissue, sometimes permitting bacteria to invade it and accelerate its decay. So it's basically just the rotting of your flesh while living.
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Post by Ashe on Aug 16, 2009 6:31:35 GMT -5
Well what I meant is instead of killing every thing, wouldn't the bugs grow in size like they did in the games? Frogs turn into Lurkers...like that. But then again those were made in labs, so there's no real way of knowing what'd it'd actually do and how it'd effect them uncontrolled...And I'm not saying your wrong. I'm just going under the impression that the T-virus kills it's victim then re animates it's cells. But then again it'd be hard to do that with plants and water huh? Your the nurse, your biology knowledge is better than mine. I believe that the insects and frogs and such that grew huge were a result of being purposely turned into those creatures. But that isn't to say that increased size in insects and animals couldn't be part of the process of turning. That is a good point on the decomposition. It is possible that decomposition would be affected if someone were alive when infected. Since the virus begins attacking the body right away, it may act on a live person in way similar to contracting gangrene from an infected wound.
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Post by Ashe on Aug 15, 2009 7:52:00 GMT -5
Well in the movie they did say they'd have to wait about forty somethin years for them to die out...and I'm guessing they mean most if not all the zombies. And as you said it would also depend on the rate of composition. And honestly, I don't know anything about how long it'd normally take a dead body to decompose so I can't really put in much input there. The length of time it takes for a body to decompose completely varies depending on the conditions of where they are buried. Hot and moist burials will decompose quicker than say hot and dry burials. And the length of time that it would take would most likely be affected by the mere fact that the virus reanimates them. I'm guessing that it would make them decompose slower, which is why it would take something like 40 years. As for drying the world out...I'm still not to sure on that. I guess it just seems a little to extreme to me. I'm sure it's possible...but killing plants and water? Seeing the effect the Tvirus has...wouldn't if just make things like Plant 42 or those other plant monsters? As for the water wouldn't it just make it toxic and life in it very dangerous? Oh it could happen. The effects of the mass extinctions that would be happening would vastly affect the environment. Since it affects all species nothing would be safe. Plants that depended on insects or other animals for the spreading of their seeds would die out because those animals or insects had died out. When those plants died out, oxygen levels would change as plants provide us with oxygen. Another problem with the plants dieing out would be the soil. It would end up like the "black blizzards" of the time during the great depression. Just think of it like a trickle down effect. Things would begin to deteriorate slowly at first, and then as more things became infected it would speed up and things would begin to deteriorate much quicker, until eventually the world would be left as a dead husk....
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Post by Ashe on Aug 15, 2009 7:31:36 GMT -5
It went from an airborne to a bodily fluid type of transmission relatively quickly. Once one human or animal made it outside the mansion the die was cast. The unquenchable thirst for "food" would cause any and all things infected to seek out "fresh meat". And with it being able to infect across all species, it wouldn't take very long for it to take over like it did in the movie.
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Post by Ashe on Aug 14, 2009 6:42:03 GMT -5
Well, this film, really, wasn't the greatest. I enjoyed it while watching it, but I felt it had a lot of plotholes. I don't really buy the T-Virus taking over the world. I mean, not that I don't think it wouldn't spread through countries, I mean wiping out water and the vegetation. It seems a little too.....out there. It doesn't make sense to me since to me that something that affects humans in such a way would have the same affect on plants and the like. I feel that the zombies living forever is silly as well. Mostly because if the body is dead, how is it sustaining itself? I liked the idea presented in the SD Perry novelizations, that after awhile the body dies out and falls apart. But anyway, I digress. I still love and bought the movie. Well as I said in your intro, the way the infection spread is pretty much how things would work in real life. As a rule (but not always, but generally) viruses do not cross infect species. Something that makes say a dog sick, usually won't make a human sick. And I don't think I've ever heard of a virus that can infect all living things. And if there was something like that, the chances that it would affect them all the same way is slim to none. So just the mere fact that it can infect any living thing would mean that it would spread to the whole world and rather quickly. As to how long they could continue to move around, that would depend on the state of decomposition and whether or not they continue to rot while in zombie form. I don't think that aspect has ever been explored or questioned before.
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Post by Ashe on Aug 14, 2009 6:29:56 GMT -5
I wish I knew what it was with the hackers, but I don't... they do tend like Proboards though... From what I've gathered when trying to correct the problems the hackers have caused here, it seems that Proboards has some kind of weakness in it's security that makes it easy to hack. This is the reason I never use Proaboards to make my sites.
I do have to agree that the last RE movie wasn't the best out of the three they have done, but if you think about it, the scenario they depicted was most likely what would have happened. The Tvirus is unlike most viruses in that it can infect everything, from plants to humans. That makes it exceptionally virulent. Since it can infect all living things, the spreading of it would quickly go from just one small town, like Raccoon City to the rest of the world rather quickly. So before you knew it, the whole world would be infected.
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Post by Ashe on Aug 12, 2009 7:05:34 GMT -5
Welcome!! I hope you enjoy it hear. Any questions, just ask. Those of us still active are all very nice.
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Post by Ashe on Jul 26, 2009 6:20:31 GMT -5
This code leads to Photobucket, not the site in question. Edit: Here, I fixed the code and tested it out. It works now. <a href="http://biohazard-incubation.proboards.com/index.cgi" target="_blank"><img src="http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b284/Shinra_Reno/affil-banner.gif" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
I must have somehow missed checking that one, I thought I had. Oh well, nice catch Spartan, thanks. The new one has been added...
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Post by Ashe on Jul 25, 2009 7:21:40 GMT -5
I have added both.
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Post by Ashe on Jul 12, 2009 5:57:10 GMT -5
resident evil is a mans game I agree with Spartan 100%. Do not ever make another sexist comment like that here. I am a woman and I found it to be extremely offensive. A woman can do anything that a man can if she puts her mind to it.
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Post by Ashe on Jul 9, 2009 6:44:48 GMT -5
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Post by Ashe on Jun 20, 2009 7:08:16 GMT -5
Well, they're not extremely fake and unreal. In Re5 they do actually name the guns by their own correct names, so that is nonfiction. And zombies are real! Err... well they could be. I feel bad for ya Ashe. I'm going to bake you a cake with Jason's hockeymask on the top! *nawing on Leon's leg* Om nom nom.... Oh...sorry...it's a force of habit. I'll help with that cake! And I apologize for any rotted fingers or flesh you may find in it. No problem, they are what add the flavor...
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Post by Ashe on Jun 19, 2009 21:44:42 GMT -5
Well, they're not extremely fake and unreal. In Re5 they do actually name the guns by their own correct names, so that is nonfiction. And zombies are real! Err... well they could be. I feel bad for ya Ashe. I'm going to bake you a cake with Jason's hockeymask on the top! Awww.... that's so sweet. Thank you.
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