Lame.

You are trying really hard to not enjoy the show...

 

Going out a limb here, but one way to look at it is this...

Zombies groan do they not? In order to do so, they have to pull air into the lungs so that it can be expelled passed the vocal cords to do so. By pulling in air, molecules pass over the receptors that allow the brain to smell (smelling takes place in the brain, not the nose). Never did the lungs extract CO2 or other trace gasses from the air, therefor you can say the lungs do not work.

Really though, discussing the anatomy and physiology of zombies is like pissing on a forest fire. Fun, but pointless.

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/chems.html

 

You inhale with your diaphragm (a muscle). It changes pressure in the cavity (where your lungs are) drawing air in. Other things can draw air in as well. Moving your body in such a way as to create a pressure differance in your lungs will work as well. Your mouth and nose are connected via the sinus cavity. When you breath with your mouth open, unless you consciously try to not allow air in your nose, air will go through there in trace amounts. I highly doubt that zombies give a shit and breath through both. That is speculation though since I have yet to interview a zombie and ask about how he/she breaths so it can groan.

 

During the CDC episode Jenner states (paraphrasing here) that only the most basic functions come back, so one can assume that the most essential element for survival is to eat, hence the zombies converge on the living like the fat kid on chocolate cake!
One has to suspend belief in reality somewhat, and not hold the show to rigid laws of nature and physical makeup, after all it is just a "once upon a time" story...a throwback to the days when we were kids and used to shoot each other with our index finger in the backyard and scream, "You're dead!"
Just like Bobby Knight once said about rape, "Just lean back and enjoy it!" ... :shining:

 

Plot hole? Well, in the TV show, People's cloths are too clean, their hair looks too good, their hands and finger nails are not dirty, there no holes on their shoes, and their socks are still white.

 

I do not recall the scientist claiming that the brain is the only working organ. I recall him saying that only the most primitive functions of the brain work. Which by this logic would and could make the lungs potentially functional. This would include making other organs operable to a greater or lesser degree.

However, I am going to be re-watching that episode soon, so if I do hear him saying what you claimed, I'll let you know either way.

 

And don't forget how perfect the lipstick looks.

 

Ladies with no makeup, spend every day in 100 degree in the woods, most likely could not take bath for days

 

You are referring to Transthoracic pressure, which pertains to pressure gradient inside the cavity, oppose to outside or ambient pressure. When the pressure gradient inside the thoracic cavity is less than outside or ambient, air will enter. There does still need to be nerve receptors to carry out the breathing which are connected to the brain. As for trace amounts of air getting in to cause moaning, I can agree to that. But smelling requires inhalation via nasal cavity. If the brain is functioning at a primitive level (which is the only claim I saw the scientist make about the brain not that it was the only thing working), then that can happen.

 

And yet they still look some what like beauty queens. lol

 

Why would Shane lock his eye on Lori ?

 

Just watched it again. He definitely did not claim this to be the only organ capable of working. He claimed that the only part of the brain that is revived is the brain stem region, while the lobes and what makes the person who they were remain dead. His subject, the wife took a breath during the second event.

 

It's a moot point.
They are the undead that rise up again. By that rationale, all the biology and physiology go out the window anyway. Normal rules don't really apply.

There is no circulation, so all the muscles (which are obviously still working, albeit not very coordinated) are operating anerobically. That is, without the massive amount of blood borne oxygen required.

Essentially, the zeds must undergo some significant metabolic changes, at a molecular level. So in other words, they can make up whatever they like. Sort of like vampires, there are no rules.

 

Well there is one! Peeps bleed through their eyes when being choked out by a zombie...:shining:

 

Plot hole: In real life Zombies do exist (Voodoo/Haiti), but they don't eat flesh...this show is so ridiculous, I guess the writers are the dumbest people alive.

This is the stupidest thread I have seen on here. And that is saying something.