Zombies

Thousands of zombies, covered in fake blood and face paint, took to the streets for the Halloween event. The record was broken when 1,227 people dressed as zombies gathered in the Old Market Square. They then performed a choreographed zombie dance to Michael Jackson"s "Thriller". Although the dancing began at 5pm but it took officials from Guinness World Records half-an-hour to zerify the numbers. The previous record was set in the US, when 1,124 people attended Monroeville Mall, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in November last year. The eventin Notttingham was part of the GameCity festival.

Iain Simons, festival director, said: "We were staggered by the number of Zombies that turned up to help us beat the attempt. Everyone got into the spirit of the afternoon and the Thriller dance was incredible." "As any self-respecting zombie knows, it"s very important that they come together and dance the Michael Jackson Thriller dance because that"s what zombies do when they congregate" he added. This year is the 25th anniversary of the Thriller video. The 14-minute film was first broadcast in December 1983 and it has become one of the most famous music videos in the world. Margaret Robinson, whohelped arrange the event, said: "It has been fantastic, we have had a huge turnout, far better than we expected, you can"t move for dancing zombies. "We are all zombies tonight, we are all undead, I am covered in blood - very happy." In March the city also set a record for the most Robin Hoods when 1,119 costumed people gathered at the castle.

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Drivers in Colorado were perplexed on Monday morning by a road sign warning them about zombies.It turned out that someone had tampered with the electronic sign by opening the back and replacing the existing message with one about a zombie invasion. The workmen who had left the control box for the sign unlocked werereprimanded following the incident.

A highway sign warning of zombies has prompted CDOT to make sure all the electronic signs it uses are locked to prevent hacking. The issue arose early Monday morning when a Colorado Department of Highways electronic road-warning sign in Boulder flashed a warning of "ZOMBIES AHEAD. "  

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Scientists have created eerie zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans. US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death, paving the way for trials on humans within years. Pittsburgh's Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research has developed a technique in which subject'sveins are drained of blood and filled with an ice-cold salt solution.

The animals are considered scientifically dead, as they stop breathing and have no heartbeat or brain activity. But three hours later, their blood is replaced and the zombie dogs are brought back to life with an electric shock. Plans to test the technique on humans should be realised within a year, according to the Safar Centre. However rather than sending people to sleep for years, then bringing them back to life to benefit from medicaladvances, the boffins would be happy to keep people in this state for just a few hours, But even this should be enough to save lives such as battlefield casualties and victims of stabbings or gunshot wounds, who have suffered huge blood loss.

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Humans believe in the possibility to bring the dead back from their graves, although the eerie perspective evokes nothing but fearAccording to classic science, it is absolutely impossible for a dead person to return to the world of the living. It is generally believed that a human being will not be able to resurrect if he or she remains in the state of clinical death for morethan three or five minutes, or dies from severe physical injuries.

The destruction or decomposition of the human body ceases all vital processes, which distinguish the living matter from what is usually referred to as remnants. The latter, scientists say, cannot move, see, hear, produce any sounds or perform any other functions of a living body.However, there can be several exceptions from this rule. There were incidents registered in medical practice, when beheaded bodies of executedpeople would raise to their feet and even make a few steps. One of such incidents occurred in the beginning of the 15th century in Germany, during a public execution of a sea pirate, known as Steterbreker.

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