Which base would you choose during the zombie apocalypse?

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Select the best safe house that you would use once ZPOC happened.

Please explain why you think your choice is the best defensive structure against a long-term (15+ years) zombie attack.

Bonus Question: You have exactly $2 million U.S. dollars {1,401,440 euros, 1,228,330 pounds, 23,435,600 pesos, 1,922,640 Canadian dollars, 746,600,000 Zimbabwe Dollar} and 5 years to acquire or to build, to fortify, to booby trap, and to stock your structure. If the choices listed by me, the OP, are too limited, use the comment section to describe your ideal zombie base.

A rock star tour bus 3
A police station 8
A cabin in the woods - flat ground 0
A hospital 8
A lighthouse 7
An aircraft carrier at sea 70
A deserted, maximum security prison 32
A bunker in the desert 11
A townhouse in the city 1
A penthouse apartment 2
A concrete bunker in the mountains 46
A castle complete with functional moat 28
An RV 1
A yacht 25
A Sequoia treehouse 7
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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    The Winchester pub!

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    • [Old Memory]
      13 years ago

      Don't you mean, The Winchester Arms?

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      • Eore
        13 years ago

        Shaun of the Dead..

        Shaun: Take car. Go to Mum's. Kill Phil - "Sorry." - grab Liz, go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over. How's that for a slice of fried gold?

        Ed: Yeah, boyyyeee!

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        • [Old Memory]
          12 years ago

          Love that movie. :o)

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  • [Old Memory]
    12 years ago

    my moms house...she can seriously use the frying pan to kill zombies all day long.

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    • [Old Memory]
      12 years ago

      "The shoulder joint is actually a “weak” joint, held together mostly by muscles known as the “rotator cuff”. This gives it a much greater range of motion compared to others (ex, the elbow), but also leaves it susceptible to greater stress and injury. Once the muscles become fatigued, along with the nervous system’s ability to control them properly, then joint function is compromised. With each successive execution of the movement the risk of injury increases exponentially."

      http://www.baseballtrainingsecrets.com/articles/shoulderhealth.php

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      • mateo
        12 years ago

        nah,most people just dont know how to exercise their rear deltoid muscles(back of the shoulder) and over work the front,hand a big strong guy a resistance band in the gym and he will cry like a little girl

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      • [Old Memory]
        12 years ago

        dude...joking...

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        • [Old Memory]
          12 years ago

          I know. ;o)

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  • mateo
    12 years ago

    i played duke nukem 64 buzzed and high on weed brownies once..............gave me PTSD.........aaaaahhh zombies

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  • noodle76
    12 years ago

    is it possible to hide yourself in your own ass?

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  • Jessie735513
    12 years ago

    A house on stilts....HUGE STILTS..zombies can't climb :)

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  • [Old Memory]
    12 years ago

    I would live anyway. there are hundreds of people TRULY willing to take their lives for me. once me and my gang find that abandoned prison we would be fully functional and wipe out the zombie apocalypse better than obama with a nuclear missile that could burn the world.

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    • [Old Memory]
      12 years ago

      Hallucinogens would not be useful during ZPOC.

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  • [Old Memory]
    12 years ago

    Me and my boyfriend already plan on being dictators together when we grow up ;) so we will have a fully stocked castle and weapons house.

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    • [Old Memory]
      12 years ago

      See my responses to EPR73.

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  • bludeath13
    12 years ago

    i'd be in my house and put a bunch of treadmills surrounding my house lol orr i'd go to a prison, although designed from the ground up to keep the living in, correctional institutions can also be more than efficient in keeping zombies out. Warehouse,maybe a church, a school

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    • [Old Memory]
      12 years ago

      Pick one!

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  • theinvestagator
    12 years ago

    i would have piranahs or crocidiles and aligators in my moat the moat is 7 feet deep the crocs and alligators food is zombies and raiders or maybe pirahnas will be better at eating raiders an zombies yah definally pirahnas i could have a garden and orchard in my casle

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    • [Old Memory]
      12 years ago

      It wouldn't work.

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  • theinvestagator
    12 years ago

    wut if the zombies were like the ones in the movie i am legend there tall fast and strong and even a little bit smart.smart enough to make a trap like in the movie imagine a 2nd grader whos dead runs fast and is tall hes not that smart but smart enough to observe one of his buddys get traped and figured out the mechanisim and made one imagine trying to out run one of them instead of the old style slow limping stupid me gonna eat ur brainz or u imagine the one i just explained next gen zombies

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    • [Old Memory]
      12 years ago

      The aircraft carrier would seem apropos.

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  • EPR73
    12 years ago

    Concrete bunker in the mountains or aircraft carrier would be the best bets for survival, but I personally would choose the castle. If some kind of crazy apocalypse like this happened, I'd want to live in comfort and enjoy the rest of my days in luxury rather than shriveled up in the mountains or throwing up everyday from sea sickness.

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    • [Old Memory]
      12 years ago

      Perhaps. But, wouldn't the rotting corpses of zombies floating in your moat effect your ground water and promote contagion?

      Wouldn't the standing water of a moat attract insects like mosquitoes that would siphon zombie blood and then fly over your castle wall and bite you?

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      • EPR73
        12 years ago

        My moat would be filled with sulfuric acid, not water. Id also mix it with honey, vanilla extract, sugar and splash of hot sauce to attract any mosquitoes into it so theyd perish.

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        • [Old Memory]
          12 years ago

          Sulfuric acid is one of the most important industrial chemicals. More of it is made each year than is made of any other manufactured chemical; more than 40 million tons of it were produced in the United States in 1990. It has widely varied uses and plays some part in the production of nearly all manufactured goods. The major use of sulfuric acid is in the production of fertilizers, e.g., superphosphate of lime and ammonium sulfate. It is widely used in the manufacture of chemicals, e.g., in making hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, sulfate salts, synthetic detergents, dyes and pigments, explosives, and drugs. It is used in petroleum refining to wash impurities out of gasoline and other refinery products. Sulfuric acid is used in processing metals, e.g., in pickling (cleaning) iron and steel before plating them with tin or zinc. Rayon is made with sulfuric acid. It serves as the electrolyte in the lead-acid storage battery commonly used in motor vehicles (acid for this use, containing about 33% H2SO4 and with specific gravity about 1.25, is often called battery acid).

          So you are saying you would pour this into the ground directly around your fortress walls? Don't you think you would get sick by breathing in these fumes??

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          • EPR73
            12 years ago

            H2SO4 = 0.21 x 10-7 bar meaning it has very little vapor loss so fumes wouldn't be too big of a concern.

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            • [Old Memory]
              12 years ago

              Perhaps. But, what about the lil' carrot patches and the well that you have within your castle walls? Wouldn't dumping hazardous chemicals around the perimeter of your castle poison the ground water and soil? All in all, this doesn't sound like a very healthy environment. Surely someone will get sick and die soon living in your castle.. Negligible as you would have us believe them to be, the fumes coming off the acid would, at a minimum, cause serious lung problems for your castle dwellers in a short span of time.

              Sulfuric acid can also damage buildings and historic monuments, especially those made of rocks such as limestone and marble containing large amounts of calcium carbonate. The acid reacts with the calcium compounds in the stones to create gypsum, which then flakes off and weakens the structure.

              The effects of this are commonly seen on old gravestones, where acid rain can cause the inscriptions to become completely illegible. Imagine what would happen to your fortress walls over a short period of time with a concentrated amount of sulfuric acid in your moat. Look at you now! Your castle walls have fallen down...now what??

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    I'd go for the bunker in the mountains. Only one entrance to guard. And I like living underground, it's cool and dry. I'm originally a prarie girl, but the mountains are pretty. It would be fine, as long as I have enough food, plumbing, electricity, enertainment (books i guess), and water

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    • [Old Memory]
      12 years ago

      Eventually you would have to leave your bunker (assuming that you have a moderate sized one with enough supplies to last you for only about 2 years). You will have to become a scavenger which means you will have to come outside. This could leave you vulnerable to being picked off by:

      (1) Zombies scattered across the landscape
      (2) Mercenaries who will want you for:
      - Sex
      - Food ( if they are cannibalistic)
      - Your resources
      - Just to kill you "because" they are crazy
      (3) Wild animals running amuck

      Personally, while a concrete bunker in the mountains is a better choice than some of the others listed above, I would not to be anywhere that provides my enemies an advantage.

      If you establish your base on land, you will give your enemies leverage, reach, and traction.

      If you establish your base on the sea, you will minimize animal attacks (if you stay out of the water) and attacks from zombies (unless your vessel drifts into a port without your knowledge, docks, and zombies board it). The only real threat you have to concern yourself with are pirates. If you weapon up yourself and your vessel, you have a fighting chance. If you don't want to chance running out of gas for your boat's engine, use a sailboat instead.

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    Do I get to bring my anal beads?

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    • [Old Memory]
      12 years ago

      With probable scarcities of soap and clean water during ZPOC, do you really believe that this would be a sanitary and worthwhile activity?

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  • MrSillyPants
    13 years ago

    Aircraft carier sounds like the obvious choice since you're completely safe, but I don't know how to navigate one so it would be difficult to get back to restock. Plus I don't want to miss out on the action. Big buildings like hosplitals and maximum security prisons would creep me out and have too many entrances. I need a roomy place to keep things and move around, but only one entrance to guard. The lighthouse as long as there are people with me because there's only one way to come in from and they basically line up for you. Plus if they get too close all you have to do is give a strong kick and watch the domino effect as they tumble down to their deaths. As long as you stock and restock well, i think I'd be pretty safe.

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    • [Old Memory]
      12 years ago

      So what sort of base would you establish if you had $2 million U.S dollars and 5 years to plan for ZPOC?

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  • Faceless
    13 years ago

    Either Cuba because of its seclusion and working weapons leftover from the cold war or anywhere in the Rockies preferably British Columbia as zombies freeze in the winter which just means you have to worry about spring cleanup when they thaw. C'mon none of you fools read world war Z?

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    • [Old Memory]
      13 years ago

      Max Brooks is Mel Brooks' son..... His tongue and cheek ditties (The Zombie Survival Guide, and now, World War Z), sure have made him a zed expert for some...

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      • Faceless
        13 years ago

        Of course hes an expert on zombies. They dont exist, in the non Haitian Voodoo way. I mean if I wrote a book as thorough as he did on the subject of crocodile fairies, id be regarded as an expert on them and youd have to take my advice on how to survive them.

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        • [Old Memory]
          13 years ago

          Truth be told, Max Brooks created his books as a bit of fun(and, of course, to make some cash). He said so himself. He was shocked by how many people asked him serious questions about zeds during his lectures... Some people! :P

          Furthermore, he is not the final word on the depiction or the concept of zombies. Zombies have been depicted in media as far back as, "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" and "Metropolis". These were simply not of the flesh eating variety. We have Richard Matheson and George Romero to thank for being the authors of this new kind of zombie.

          I don't believe that experts exist in this imaginary genre. There is one thing to be an expert about the history of zombies in media. There is another thing to "proclaim" that you now surmise that zombies can fly and you are going to write a bestselling book about it and therefore everyone now believes that zombies can fly. That's akin to someone writing about a Leprechaun that can break dance.

          The primary problem with the zombie franchise, as I see it, is that no one laid down any ground rules in the beginning of this horror genre about what "exactly" a zombie is and is not and what "exactly" it is capable of and what it is not capable of so...as a result....you get a bunch of bullshittery taken as Bible. This genre needs standards.

          There are actually some similarities to the malformed and diverse takes on this subject matter as there were when the World Wide Web was first invented. Different browsers rendered different depictions of content. Thankfully, web standards was introduced and agreed upon and now you can see one version of, say, the CNN, website, versus a different version, based upon "which" browser you use.

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          • [Old Memory]
            13 years ago

            PS

            I'm going to write a bestseller zombie book about why they gorge themselves on human flesh and you never see them taking a crap.

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            • [Old Memory]
              13 years ago

              That's probably because they're dead and their digestive system doesn't work properly anymore, so whatever they eat just sits in their bowels and rots away along with the rest of their body until they're completely decomposed.

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  • Angel_in_a_Glass_Dress
    13 years ago

    I'm inclined to pick the carrier, but only if it's well stocked and heavily armed.... because the isolation can be good, especially since you can make your own water.

    The problem of course is fuel and food. Once you run out of either one you're screwed.

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    • [Old Memory]
      12 years ago

      What about the bonus question?

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      • Angel_in_a_Glass_Dress
        12 years ago

        Two million?

        to outfit and supply something like this? http://www.defencetalk.com/pictures/data/4693/medium/US-Navy-Aircraftcarrier-6-USS-G_-Washington.jpg

        yeah um.. that ain't happening.

        If all I got was 2 million ... I'd be better off holding up inside a walmart district warehouse.

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        • [Old Memory]
          12 years ago

          http://isitnormal.com/poll/zpoc-base-part-two-3213/

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  • Optamus
    13 years ago

    treehouse because its awesome

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    • [Old Memory]
      13 years ago

      What if some militant crazies who wanna hijack your stuff, burn down your tree?

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  • dappled
    13 years ago

    I wonder why you never see a zombie film set in the desert.

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    • [Old Memory]
      13 years ago

      "Resident Evil:Resurrection", was set in the desert.

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    Any sea transport. You would be able to rest without sleep which will make your judgements better when needing to go out for supplies. They cant get to you.

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    • [Old Memory]
      13 years ago

      For once, I agree with you. Although, there were a few zombie movies that had zeds walking on the bottom of bodies of water... However, if you are far enough out to sea, the possibility is very remote that they can span the breach of a 5,000 foot deep ocean to mount your vessel and attack you.

      The other great thing about using an aircraft carrier is that you can keep helicopters, small planes, and other vehicles on board to use at a moment's notice to escape or to scout areas for food, resources, supplies, and survivors.

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      • [Old Memory]
        13 years ago

        Hmm yeah I guess that would be a problem but wouldnt they have a hard time climbing the ship? I could be wrong I havent watched a zombie film in quite some time. I wouldnt really use an aircraft unless it was for a very long distance trip because im sure in every zombie film sound attracts them. If you like zombie shows/movies I recommend "The walking dead" ots an interesting show.

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        • [Old Memory]
          13 years ago

          Wouldn't 'what' be a problem? Zombie movies seem to dictate our understanding of what it is possible for a zombie to do.. I guess I'll have to hold out for the movie where they climb aircraft carriers. Who knew that zombies could walk under water until "Land of the Dead"? Until some Zombie Gray's Anatomy is published and everyone agrees to abide by it in their depiction of zeds, anything goes.

          What's repeated over and over again ad nauseam about zeds is that they can hear. Realistically speaking, how? If they are dead, shouldn't their eardrums have rotten out of their skulls? They certainly have enough maggots munching on them to eat this portion of their anatomy away in short order. Certain parts of zombies do rot and waste away in our guides of understanding: Max Brooks books and zed movies. Why not ear drums?

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      • [Old Memory]
        13 years ago

        http://youtu.be/Q2CqRsLVWhE
        http://youtu.be/ICrbURGJeKk
        http://youtu.be/3vFaHjrw76I

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