User blog comment:Shawty71/Why Zombies are impossible/@comment-2017565-20100927193644

Dear Anonymous,

Thank you for the response. I'm slightly confused by what you're trying to say in your ideas (not sure what you mean by disto diese) but I'll try and analyze what I think you're trying to say.

Fungal infections are slow forming and typically isolated to the skin. Yes, such infections can move to the lungs and other organs but even so, no fungus, or any pathogen for that matter, has the capability of translocating an entire organ set. Also, the diaphram has no holes and is the sealing boundary between the thoracic and abdominal cavities. Moving across the diaphragm could only occur if the intestines and stomach were flipping backwards through the esophagus. But then we're talking about the breakage of all the fatty connective tissue (also known as the mesentery) that holds the intestines in place. For these reasons alone, the intestines couldn't simply move around the diaphragm and somehow become a third appendage. Also, the GI tract is smooth muscles which hinders this organ's ability to shoot out, let alone position itself close to the mouth. In fact, this is something that would be possible with an organ with striated muscles like the tongue. I'm not sure what you're saying about Darwin, or how it could be significant. I'm sorry but your smoker ideas aren't very plausible.

If anything, yes the spitter is over-producing stomach acid as that is the only acid in the body that cause significant damage to tissue after prolonged exposure. Now, if we're talking something so corrosive that it disintigrates the surrounding lips, then we can also assume that the upper part of the esophogus is also gone since it is straited muscles like the lips. Without that, there's no connection between the stomach which is housing the acid and the mouth in order to expell it. At this point, your idea is no longer reliable since your supporting ideas rely on having the esophageal complex intact.

Your jockey ideas are actually the most plausible of the three. In fact, I wrote something similar on the Green Flu infected page. I think the only difference was I said it was a paralyzed person who could walk again as a result from the infection. The overjoy of being able to walk again resulted in mania-like expressions. But, one could also say the Jockey is the result from a large tumor developed in it's back which has caused it to hunch over and bounce. The jockey could also be a midget. I don't know. The jockey is a medical anomaly.

Please don't be offended as I always encourage other's to think outside the box. You're thinking is overall going in a positive direction and I would suggest taking what I said into consideration and go from there.