Point/Counterpoint: Who's scarier, Zombies or Horrible Monsters From Space?
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Recently, Australian scientists announced to the scientific community that they'd brought a dog back to life from 3 hours of clinical death with no apparent physical or mental damage. Before death, the dogs' body temperature was lowered slowly to only 7 degrees Celsius, creating a state of hypothermia. Then the blood was replaced with an ice-cold saline solution and then, three hours later, replaced with new blood. Here, to offer a point/counterpoint on the ramifications of this announcement in terms of horror, are a monster from outer space and the Zombie Dog.
Good evening and, of course, thanks for the opportunity. *ahem* First of all, aside from the social commentary in the original George Romero films, what made zombies so effective as an element of horror was relating to them. Certainly, what's dead is dead and can't be brought back to life, or so humanity assumed, and it was much more likely that horrible monsters from space would arrive and, for example, hunt humans for sport. Afterall, who among you can deny that perhaps somewhere out there are creatures from another planet? Both fear of zombies and fear of horrible monsters from space are really both just variations of fear for the unknown. However, having said that, I can say safely, up until now, zombies were much more frightening to the human psyche. A zombie isn't just some random, made up creature, it is something you recognize as human, but unlike other humans, it has no soul. It is stripped of the very thing that humanity defines itself with. A zombie is a beast. And with humans so confident in their own sense of being civilized, the idea of a human beast is disturbing. But the fear of zombies is still, at it's root, the fear of the unknown, and so with these recent scientific breakthroughs and the creation of the world's first true zombie, zombies no longer have the edge in terms of being unknown. Indeed, the Zombie Dog is inevitably being studied and scrutinized by careful scientific eyes as I speak. Knowledge of the zombie dog will create an effect of less fear towards it. Therefore, my conclusion is that, with the creation of the Zombie Dog, horrible creatures from outer space are the scarier of the two.
And Zombie Dog, your counter point?
BRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIINNNNS!
Hmm. I stand corrected.
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*This story is not bullshit. And that picture of the zombie dog is real. Click here to learn more.
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with love from CRS @ 5:52 PM
Saturday, July 16, 2005
Recently, Australian scientists announced to the scientific community that they'd brought a dog back to life from 3 hours of clinical death with no apparent physical or mental damage. Before death, the dogs' body temperature was lowered slowly to only 7 degrees Celsius, creating a state of hypothermia. Then the blood was replaced with an ice-cold saline solution and then, three hours later, replaced with new blood. Here, to offer a point/counterpoint on the ramifications of this announcement in terms of horror, are a monster from outer space and the Zombie Dog.
Good evening and, of course, thanks for the opportunity. *ahem* First of all, aside from the social commentary in the original George Romero films, what made zombies so effective as an element of horror was relating to them. Certainly, what's dead is dead and can't be brought back to life, or so humanity assumed, and it was much more likely that horrible monsters from space would arrive and, for example, hunt humans for sport. Afterall, who among you can deny that perhaps somewhere out there are creatures from another planet? Both fear of zombies and fear of horrible monsters from space are really both just variations of fear for the unknown. However, having said that, I can say safely, up until now, zombies were much more frightening to the human psyche. A zombie isn't just some random, made up creature, it is something you recognize as human, but unlike other humans, it has no soul. It is stripped of the very thing that humanity defines itself with. A zombie is a beast. And with humans so confident in their own sense of being civilized, the idea of a human beast is disturbing. But the fear of zombies is still, at it's root, the fear of the unknown, and so with these recent scientific breakthroughs and the creation of the world's first true zombie, zombies no longer have the edge in terms of being unknown. Indeed, the Zombie Dog is inevitably being studied and scrutinized by careful scientific eyes as I speak. Knowledge of the zombie dog will create an effect of less fear towards it. Therefore, my conclusion is that, with the creation of the Zombie Dog, horrible creatures from outer space are the scarier of the two.
And Zombie Dog, your counter point?
BRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIINNNNS!
Hmm. I stand corrected.
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*This story is not bullshit. And that picture of the zombie dog is real. Click here to learn more.
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