Chapter 30-Short Term Memory part 2

[Red Shirt]

Also thinking, any massive bombing in the area could shift tectonic plates or open more cracks along the LA side of the Ring of Fire.

I'm not so sure that is possible... I haven't yet seen credible reports that human activities have caused tectonic events on any scale (yet). You have to remember the sheer size and scale of the amount of mass involved.

To put things in perspective: Dr. Phil Plait the Bad Astronomer, wrote an article for Blastr titled: "Astronomer: 3 reasons we can't blow up a planet sci-fi style."

Granted, this article is about blowing up planets, not setting fault lines into motion, but even then, if you scale back a handful of orders of magnitude, it still should give you an idea as to what would be involved.

[Loyal Retainer]

Also thinking, any massive bombing in the area could shift tectonic plates or open more cracks along the LA side of the Ring of Fire. Not that that matters since the population is basically gone now anyways. I praise all the people that take the time to research everything for this show. It is what makes the show and the fans so great.

A surface blast or air burst would have no effect on tectonic plates what so ever. Even a subterranean blast would not have enough energy to cause a shift of the plates. Even if you had multiple devices planted along the San Andres vault line it would have little to no effect. Geologist speculated on this as a doomsday weapon but the active parts of fault lines are so deep and are under such great pressure and temperature a nuclear device wouldn't function, even if it did the power of it would do very little.

[7oddisdead]

So here's a fun one for ya...looking into plate tectonics' and found this site.

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Geology-1359/oil.htm

Now, my thinking here was how has the constant war in the middle east effected the plates there...well not much apparently.

But as I read into all of this..i thought of inks tats..im gonna go throw this over there as well..

[HorrorHiro]

Are you sure? Where does Kimmet say that? I heard Kimmet say that he believes it started in hotspots on the west coast, L.A., San Fran., Oregon. The whole country was over-run a day and a half latter. They lost contact with the eastcoast about a week after the west was hit.

1st part of chapter 30? Maybe 3rd part of the last chapter, I don't remember exactly but he said something along the lines of "we lost communication with the East, then it hit us." something like that. Can someone help me cite my sources?

[HorrorHiro]

Please, correct me if I'm wrong but Kimmet (or another soldier at the fort) said that the whole thing started in the Eastern part of the world. Then hit the western world (U.S. and other western countries.) So (unless I'm wrong, which I doubt) there is absolutely no purpose in bombing L.A. or anywhere in the U.S. really, concentrations of zombies isn't worth the (potential) loss of life, resources, and land. Vast majority of the human species is either dead or apart of the zombies/creatures/whatever you feel like calling them.

What I'm saying is, "ground zero" isn't where the Apocalypse started. It might be where it started on the west coast but remember this whole thing hit the East coast and made it's way across the country in day. There are probably plenty of "ground zeros" all throughout the world, doesn't mean we should try to nuke/bomb all of them, because either way "the dead will always outnumber the living" ~ Red Dead Redemption

[Red Shirt]

1st part of chapter 30? Maybe 3rd part of the last chapter, I don't remember exactly but he said something along the lines of "we lost communication with the East, then it hit us." something like that. Can someone help me cite my sources?

Chapter 29 2/3, pretty much the entire first half of the episode is Kimmet's briefing.

At about 4:58, "We lost contact with everyone on the East Coast about a week after the west was hit."

[forgottenone]

Ok, this has been on my mind.. i just find it odd...
The guys are holed up in an elementary school. How many elementary schools do you know that have bars on all the windows and have metal doors? Really? This is in downtown LA, but really? And, I dont visit dwn there so I can't say. Does anyone know??

[Cabbage Patch]

Ok, this has been on my mind.. i just find it odd...
The guys are holed up in an elementary school. How many elementary schools do you know that have bars on all the windows and have metal doors? Really? This is in downtown LA, but really? And, I dont visit dwn there so I can't say. Does anyone know??

I looked at the images of Dominguez Elementary School on Google Maps Street View, and if there are bars on the windows they aren't obvious. That said, I've done work at an adult school that's not far away, and that place is built like a fortress, including bars on the windows, steel gates over the doors, and a big iron fence around the complex. So the particulars may be different, but the concept is valid.

Here's a link to the wiki entry on Dominguez Elementary: http://www.zombiepodcast.com/forum/s...mentary+School

[GodofInsanity]

Lmao, this is Los Angeles. I have seen heavy duty fences around a McDonalds. So yeah schools in the inner city can be really beefed up with bars and such. Hell I live 60 miles from L.A. and they put up a heavy duty fence around my old high school and installed reinforced doors because of the whole columbine thing. And another note...I do not think thats Los Angeles where they holed up. Isn't it further west and a tad south of downtown L.A. proper.

[nikvoodoo]

I live in a neighborhood in queens where we've left the windows down in our car on accident overnight and nothing got stolen.

The elementary school down the block has bars over the windows.