Scientists Reveal How a Zombie Apocalypse Could Actually Happen 

So basically what I gathered is that “zombies” in the way they are portrayed in media mediums like movies and video games aren’t particularly physically plausible. But human beings being in a “zombie-like” state where our Brain functions aren’t like normal human beings technically is possible..that makes sense.

I always wondered if weaponized/modified rabies could be created, and I have no doubt someone somewhere has probably already tried to produce it.

Anyone else watching this after scientists found 48500yrs old zombie virus in Siberia

I've said it before. I'm more concerned about a preon disease causing a zombie outbreak than a virus zombie outbreak. So I'm glad y'all mentioned preon diseases so that people will realize they're more concerning

Really, the closest thing to human zombification are rabies, though kuruu also has some parallels with Mad Cow's Disease.

NGL, I'd say Days Gone's zombie apocalypse is more accurate. Considering the "zombies" are called freaks in Days Gone, and they aren't "undead". It's basically super rabies.

a great thing about zombie genre is it makes you think more about surviving a serious event, zombies can be replaced by panicking humans

I’ve never felt bad for an ant before.

I once asked my Biology Professor if this was possible. She pointed towards the existence of Rabies and the Ant Fungus as proof that it could. Well done video.

No one : Gamers: "This is what I've been waiting for my entire life"

You had slight inaccuracies on the Cordyceps description… they don’t usually collect on the forest floor but rather in particularly high places of trees to force the ant to bite down on the underside of a branch with good moisture conditions for its growth and then it releases spores onto the forest floor

The cordyceps fungus is the basis of The Last of Us, definitely the best and most realistic zombie concept of all fiction! The most unrealistic part is how fast it spreads, a fungus would spread much slower

“They may look human, but only have the ability to consume”… So, humans then…

I would love to see a video on what would happen if no one spent any money for a whole day

The most traumatising part of the outbreak was seeing the people you love . Die and transform. Most of it just destroy you mentally. Beceause you have no idea on how it spread or where it came from ,if it is water, possible food contamination… Also have to be careful on weapons , amo and possibly food. Even be careful on any potential infected survivors. And then proceed to survive the nuclear strikes or intensive bombing from the army .

U understand the fascination with the brain but before we attempt to change it or heal brain damage with nano bots and extremely high tech methods, we should study the brain and solve it in a way. By that I mean figure out what every little part of the brain does and how it functions. This is extremely difficult because I'm assuming everyone's brain must function differently even if it is a super small difference.

A mutation in the rabies virus could be the closest thing that can trigger a zombie apocalypse? But I don't think there are many chances of that happening without human modifications to use it as a bio- weapon.

What about Resident Evil? Genetic modification through a viral vector could be one possibility. Say a military unconcerned with ethics developed a gene therapy for soldiers to improve their strength, pain resistance, healing ability, but the initial test subjects suffer inflammation of the brain which makes them violent, and causes lesions to form on the skin, so now their infected blood gets into the mouth.

I mean a mutated rabbies virus could technically cause a rage virus

Whose her after the scientists revived the zombie virus from a lake in Russia?

I’ve actually spoken with a biologist. I asked if it was possible that a zombie virus could be biologically built. She gave, after thinking a moment, a yes. She said that’s the most likely cause for a zombie virus.

1900's: "What if electricity go wrong?" 2020's: "What if nanomachines go wrong?" 2100's: "What if space colonization go wrong?"

Zombies would form groups, cry they are oppressed and create their own flag.

We can only rely on one man for our survival in a zombie apocalypse. His name is Vin Diesel, because Nothing is more important than family.

I love how they put the flight of the bumblebee when talking about wasps. 5:24

I like the guy in the intro casually walking away from a horde of zombies, with a "how strange" look on his face.

I'm excited! Can't wait for the future

I always thought having a zombie apocalypse would be cool but when you think about your family and friends being one and having to put them down or watching them get ripped apart would be very effed up and traumatizing to alot of us

Read “The Serpent and the Rainbow”. My parents lived in Haiti for many years and Haitian culture is very big in my family(we all speak Haitian Creole etc). The author of the book about Haitian “zombies” became friends with my parents while he was researching for the book in Haiti. It’s a great book even tho it’s about 50 years old and some Haitians have a much more mundane celebration of voodoo (I’ve been to a couple in person). So the reality and history of Haitian “zombies”much more complex than this this vid explains it.

The fungal part is the more worrisome. Past global temperatures prevented fungi from evolving into deadly spores that could thrive in human body temperatures. Western Canada is reporting that people are getting serious lung infections from an otherwise benign fungus.

I cannot think of zombie apocalypse without thinking about cordyceps and bug fables

This is the stuff I use for my games and stories that I create for a living. I find it fascinating!

The Walking Dead series takes place in Georgia and Virginia. Zombies would decompose and rot away to the point where they couldn’t move themselves within weeks due to the Southern heat.

Can we please get a apocalypse

If prions changed/morphed a little bit I bet it could be pretty zombie-ish

I’ve actually based a zombie story on the "zombie ant" fungi. Though some of it obviously has to be fictitious, I tried my best to make it scientifically reasonable.

Anyone watching this when they revived the zombie virus from Siberia?

Awe that head injury thing is scary real. Cousin was in a car accident and was in a coma for awhile. When she woke up, her memory, her mannerisms, her in general changed.

Cool. I’ve been training for this for a while.

12:11 Love the fact he's trying to bring back dead memes with zombies, one of my favourite fiction characters.

Of course zombies walk among us.... They are on their smart phones, tapping away...

My mother is a scientist and LOVES the idea of zombies. She keeps talking like she’s serious about if and when the Apocalypse happens.. after this video, should I be worried?? She knows something we don’t lol.

Well, thanks to a group of military cadets and a certain project of theirs, the US government does have something like a contingency plan for an actual zombie outbreak.

Yea here in Santa Rosa CA there really are zombies 🧟‍♀️ due lots of people using fentonyl 😢 but I've read and studied certain viruses can potentially cause an outbreak 😢

It's called "social media".

5:45 that thing truly scares me, recently during a bicycle trip near a water reservoir there was this wasp-like creature following us around really persistently, only when we reached a nearby road and accelerated we were able to lose it. Hope it wasn't this even though we live in Europe climate change causes the migration of many dangerous exotic animals and boom.

I also heard of a zombie drug. While using it will cause a person to act like a zombie as a side effect, it doesn't spread and make an attacked villain have similar behaviors.

Zombies exist they are the ones calling us about our car warranties!

The thing that stops cordyceps from infecting humans is our body temperature. We're much too warm for it to propagate. However, the thing that could change all that is increasing global temperatures. Specifically in teo ways. 1. A temperature increase can help the fungi evolve to withstand higher temperatures. 2. An increase in global temperature means humans will likely evolve to have a lower body temperature to compensate. Its basically a 1, 2 punch. Combine the fungus with rabies or kuru, and you have an aggressive person that has the drive to spread both.

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Actually I had this crazy dream about being in the zombie apocalypse and I’ll say it’s a lot more terrifying than playing a game or saying you can do it. Now it’s real you hesitated or miss your shots

I love this channel. My dog finally discovered the tv at the cat and mouse part. 😂😂😂. Keep up the great work!

I just want to point out, that zombie virus that scientists discovered in Siberia is only referred to as such because it essentially came to life after discovery, not because it is a virus that causes people to become zombies.

Let’s hope scientists are as smart as they seem and have complete control over the robot so it doesn’t infect.

Just watch the movie The Serpent and the Rainbow. The way one character say's "Hello Doctor Allen" was scary enough, but very good movie supposedly based on a true story.

I find the discussion with Steam Cells to be interesting since it was just recently announced that they had determined an enzyme in the brains of young mice which can be injected into older mice to improve their brain functions.

Zombie-like behavior and being a zombie are 2 completely different things.

Problems with the dead rising and walking and eating humans are these. Zombies as shown in popular fiction can likely eat but they couldn’t digest and rid of waste… unless their stomachs and intestines are ripped out and the flesh they eat just passes through their bodies and fall to the ground. Secondly and most importantly anything “dead” will always rot. Rigor mortis sets in and then bloating and eventually everything holding the body together would just fall apart after six to eight weeks.

The second one talked about seems a lot like the Flood from Halo. Both of them create fungus-shaped growths on victims, control their minds, and spread via spores. It’d be terrifying to think there might actually be a Gravemind somewhere.

yeah some thing to mention about zombie apocalypse is that u shouldnt worry most of these zombies are slow and tearing apart people that have died a month ago would be the only one to walk .So zombie invasion is an epic fail but if theres a virus thats a different case

I am concerned how nonchalant people were and still are about pandemic diseases and they are mad about protective measures but a zombie apocalypse would be extremely inconvenient.

Check out the "zombie cucumber", same effects but you would have to be fed a really large dose to die, couldve and has been rumored to be used in the long-term "zombification" process

If zombies ever were to break out, they wouldn’t be like how they are in movies and tv shows. Furthermore, a zombie apocalypse wouldn’t last 2 days because of weather maggots REGARDLESS if they either just died or died a while ago

Zombies would die out within a few days, either rotting away past the point they can't move anymore, or because the wildlife would eat them.

Point of order: it was an excellent movie, but 28 Days Later (2002) was not the first movie to have fast moving or intelligent zombies; I think it's the first to have living, rage-virus "zombie" people though. Return of the Living Dead (1985) had zombies that were both fast and intelligent, smart enough to use the police radio after killing some police officers ("send more cops"). It was also the first movie to have zombies specifically going after brains.

WHOS HERE AFTER THE SCIENTISTS REVIVED A ZOMBIE VIRUS???

I’ve never thought about Nanobots before when thinking about a zombie apocalypse. This one sounds like the most plausible and potentially worse than a normal zombie imagine a Nanobot that can control you while also healing injuries that’d be worse a conscious zombie able to think and problem solve while also being able to heal themselves

If an outbreak starts it’ll be in lab from China, Russia, or just really bad hygiene festering a super bug so maybe places like New Delhi, Lagos, Rio De Janeiro/etc.

Everyone's freaking out about cordycepts but adapting do control the human brain would have to take a long time to adapt and be super complicated

The scary part is if a zombie virus actually does exist it probably wouldn't actually make the infected move slower. So, trying not to get bit would be extremely difficult. It would probably increase aggression in the host and cause them to attack other people, but not affect their mobility.

13:01 False. The standard Romero/Fulci zombie was a flesh-eater. The Romero type was also originally called a "ghoul." 'Return of the Living Dead' introduced the brain-eating zombie.

This in a nut shell is why I freaking love this channel

These ZOMBIES LOOK LIKE and ACT LIKE my neighbors who just want to consumed everything I got.

Tanks,50.Cals,Jets,etc ... I'm pretty sure the military will always be able to handle any type of zombies,IF a zombie apocalypse actually came true.

Mainly silly, (not all) but as always with this channel totally enjoyable and watchable, keep it up :)

Closest thing to Zombification is probably Scopolamine+Bath Salts/Flakka.

I just want to say for the zombie ants the fungi actually spreads through the limbs and controls those so it would be like being paralyzed but your body is being moved from you control and fungus is slowly growing through your skin. Nice thought right?

I’ve always had zombie apocalypses on my mind because their my favorite thing to learn and watch about. I have many weapons and am collecting them for this occasion. Let it be known when the time comes and world ends I will be somewhat ready.

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I love the creativity and the team work! I really hope y’all are okay, we love you all ❤

if the apocalypse happened, i would just die. why do people in movies always have so much will to live

I remember reading that back in 2017 Brown University was working on a bio-inhancement serum that could, in theory, boost our natural predatory instincts as well as increase the speed and strength in humans. In its first stage of biological testing it was tested on mice before the POSSIBILITY of human trials were considered, after a couple of hours of the feeding of this serum to the mice it was obvious they were experiencing the desired affects of the serum becoming faster and stronger but as one of the first side effects was an increase in hostility. After a couple of more hours the mice was found dead. They concluded that it would not be safe for human trials. When a lab technician was preparing to dispose of the bodies of the mice they noticed movement from a couple of the mice. They got the lead scientist to have a look and he found that although their hearts had stopped beating the mice still had the capacity in their brain to move their bodies. When LIVING mice was introduced to these seemingly undead mice, they were attacked by the "Zombie Mice" and were subsequently killed. It was interesting because these dead mice didn't attack other mice who had the same serum. One of the technicians swore she saw one of the previous "living mice" start moving after death. In the end the programme was shut down by the F.B.I AND also the C.I.A interestingly enough.

"remember when his cell phone was a big bulky thing that barely fit in your pocket?" Darlin' I remember when a cell phone was huge. It barely fit in a purse or briefcase. It's been fascinating watching technology shrink. My mom keeps going on about when a computer took up a Whole room. Now the same amount of power is in the palm of her hand. It's amazing when you stop to think about it

I like how we’re admitting that the panic response to Covid was brain dead.

Rabies is the closest thing to zombie virus

"I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next." - George A. Romero

Imma say it,voodoo zombies would probably be better than actual zombies

yes because a zombie virus just got revive

I think the closest we’d see a parallel between zombies in media and IRL would be something similar to the World War Z zombies

The fact that the idea of zombies was created makes zombies possible. Somebody may purposely try to create a virus that creates zombies for both other reason then to create a movie like apocalypse.

The whole we'd notice stuff happening to us if we grew mushrooms out of our bodies suddenly only covers those who would see it as a reason to go see a doctor, there are those who'd in a lack of a better term would hide a zombie bite from the other survivors, and would see the fungi infection as a rash and leave it alone or let it get worse

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We need Rick Grimes and his skills, to survive the zombie apocalypse.

bro they all have the reanimation jutsu, lolll

That's why one of my SHTF preparedness is for zombie as well as martial law and collapse of society and emp attack

I was sipping coffee when he said, "It's not a toilet paper hoarding frenzy." and I almost spit it out from laughter! 😂

Rotting zombies cannot be a thing because if the nerves are unusable they cannot even function. Bodies still need to eat, drink, and not be torn up.

I don't normally say this but your vids, are very entertaining. Keep up the awesome content 👍

I actually dreamt that zombies are real last night. The dream is so realistic that i even had a close conversation with my parents which we discussed the plans to survive the apocalypse. It's like a RE themed dream and i can move everywhere i want to. I almost died once trying to compromise my old house which we left a day ago because we went to look for food. Back to what I'm saying, i went back to my house which is surrounded by other houses and trees which at night, i can barely see anything due to the small spaces between establishments. There were a lot of frickinngg zombies and most of them would jump in front you and drag your feet. It's really a mind boggling experience especially with my family, country, and friends included. It took me 3 dream days to survive the whole thing and i met some good people that saved me from the highway hotel which is where we stayed when we tried to get groceries after the infection was announced. If a zombie apocalypse actually happened, it shouldn't be airborne and the humans will win at the end. Though, it will take billions of lives.

The Serpent and the Rainbow is about this stuff. Good movie.