As a guy who has a zombie flavored blog, has written two zombie apocalypse books and is working on a third (to be released this fall!), I tend to stay on top of all things green. With that being said, I noticed this most excellent preview for an upcoming zombie film called Maggie, staring one former governor of California.
Saw these over at the Laughing Squid
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Inked
Images via Vitali-Iakovlev and Max Dunbar
By the way there is a post-apoc Charlie Brown comic out there called Weapon Brown that has been around for about 15 years
“Chuck is the hard bitten, hard hittin’ star of Weapon Brown. Transformed from a pathetic refugee into a cyborg super soldier by the nefarious Syndicate, Chuck now wanders the wastelands as a gun-for-hire. He is haunted by the death of his beloved Red-Haired Girl, and has only one friend, his loyal mutt Snoop.”
Rough night last night?
Anyways, have a Happy News Years Day. Eger out!
(P.S. last night was my 4oth birthday. Yaay me!)
Ever seen Bladerunner? Perhaps the best film adaptation of a Phillip K Dick book? (I’m a huge Dick fan…wait that didn’t come out right) anyway, the mega city filled with people in a labyrinthine expanse of dystopian future in that tale actually came close to being a reality in the 1980s in Hong Kong.
Kowloon in 1987
Called the Kowloon Walled City, it was originally a Chinese Fort on the outskirts of Hong Kong. In 1947 the Brits decided they wanted no more to do with it, and the Chinese largely took the same approach which meant it became something of a buccaneer’s den of sorts where there was no law, no government, no control, no zoning.
This led to a sort of controlled anarchy for the next forty years in which over 50,000 people lived in the increasingly decaying buildings crammed in the space of a city block. As you can imagine, crime, prostitution, unlicensed dentists, and havens for everything on the outskirts of legal existed and thrived.
Still, some called it home.
Click to big up. This is great
However the Hong Kong government eventually moved in and tore the place down in 1993 at a cost of $2.7 billion which included buying out the population. Its now a park.
Not a drill…apparently a barge filled with 50 zombie-dressed mannikins sank, appropriately, on Halloween night in Lake Michigan. Now the survivors (?) have been popping to the surface over the past several days.
And yes, I do believe that it is a production of Silencerco for their Salvo 12 line.
Over at Cryptome I found a really neat 1997 Swiss study (translated from earlier Chinese and Russian works!) on future super weapons titled: “The physical principles of thermonuclear explosives, internal confinement fusion, and the quest of fourth generation nuclear weapons”
Sounds catchy right? (Go download it fools, its free!)
Well the first hundred pages or so is all background stuff from the 1930s to now-ish.
The really next-level stuff starts on page 103 (of 236) and includes discussion on theoretical subcritical and microfission explosives, transplutonic and super-heavy elements, antimatter (antimatter!) nuclear isomers, super-explosives and metallic hydrogen bombs, and so forth.
If nothing else, you sci-fi writers out there can have a ball with the possibilities. Remember, its best to be a Vulcan in the streets and a Klingon in the sheets
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All this week the UN is going to have a summit to determine if ‘killer robots’ should be added to that body’s list of inhumane weapons systems.
Of course the platforms in question are lethal autononmous weapons systems (LAWS) such as a better version of the Samsung SGR-1A and Raytheon’s Phalanx CIWS that are currently availible.
If they make progress, the UN could classify these and future systems as verbotten, much like they did with landmines and lasers. And of
course, if they do, no one will use them in war moving forward, right?
(Holds breath)
Anyway, Read the rest in my column at Guns.com
PS. I reached out to Skynet for comment and never heard back from them.