Okay, THIS is my unpopular opinion.

[channonyarrow]

Words of the day: OH FOR GOD'S SAKE I FUCKING HATE THIS STUPID "HOLIDAY" FOR MORONS, REALLY, NOW FUCKING STOP.

If your "joke" goes on for four posts about chicken fucking and involves internet flouncing, you're taking it too far.
If your "joke" implies that everyone in a specific place is going to die and by the way srs bzns, you're taking it too far.
If your "joke" requires everyone to believe that LJ is once again up to its asshatted tricks, you're taking it too far.

The short version: If your joke is at all plausible, even with ten seconds of thought, YOU ARE DOING IT THE FUCK WRONG.

If your joke is relatively-immediately-obvious as a joke, and is commendable as such, YOU ROCK. Otherwise, SHUT UP.

And now, no joke: today I had a twenty minute conversation about whether zombies (to be boiled and de-esterised or something) would make an acceptable biodiesel, and if they would then be a renewable or non-renewable resource. Conclusions were that we need a zombie to practise on, that they would be a renewable resource in the sense that cattle are, and that you could, possibly, use the waste meat to heat your home, but it would depend on stench factor. References to things I will not even go into on LJ were made (and no, they did not involve children or sex, but they did involve a lot of you knowing that I am not actually advocating what I was referring to, which is pretty hard to do online).

Comments

[jacesan.livejournal.com]

Zombies would be a renewable resource, but the processing required to convert them to fuel isn't cost effective. Until we come up with better processing methods, fossil fuels are still going to be more dominant.

[emjay42.livejournal.com]

Granted at whatever point the planet is over-run with the undead, there are so many infrastructure changes involved that the mind just boggles. Let's say that if 5% of the world's population survive the Zompocalypse, which would be roughly 3.4 million people, that would leave almost 6.5 billion as potential fuel. Now,if there was some way to work around the threat presented by 6.5 billion flesh-hungry and maintain enough of a industrial infrastructure to not only process zombie tissue into usable fuels, but also handle a conversion of fossil fuel dependent machinery to being zom-fuel capable then you've won half the battle.

After you conquer the infrastructure changes needed you then have to gear up for harvesting the raw materials necessary for the fuel, which would be a whole lotta killing. You'll obviously run into all the usual "is it morally right to harvesting former human beings as fuel" factions from within the surviving humans, plus there are the X-factors of how difficult it will be to harvest the zombies depending on their basic behaviors (docile and lumbering, or fast and feral). Oh, and let us not forget how much raw material will be needed to produce X gallons of fuel (i.e. 5 fully grown adult zombies to produce one gallon of fuel, etc), which will then induce the ire of environmentalists and economists alike wondering if the zom-fuel solution is more harmful or helpful to the environment or whether the costs of harvesting, processing and distributing the zom-fuel will be an acceptable cost at the pump for the population to continue.

Or we could just go with liquefied coal. Yeah, there ya go. *head|desk*

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

Dude, I eat cows. I kind of consider cows marginally smarter than zombies, so there's THAT moral hurdle right out of the way.

I'm serious, I think that zombies are a more sustainable resource than that there liquified coal, but we need to figure out how the virus is transmitted and how effective it is to render what we need out of it. On the other hand, the theory pretty much is predicated on the thought that the only cars that will need powering in a world of 6 billion are the two or three that my survival group has.

I can't believe I seriously have a survival group for the zompocalypse. And yet, I do. Also, like four of those people are tasked with defence. If we can't figure out a way of making, say, the Columbia Tower zombie-proof and effective ways of making flame throwers I think we might have larger problems than just a plain old zompocalypse.