Can zombies survive in Alaska

Answer 1

If a zombie could exist, the brain would have to remain alive in order to send neurological impulses to the musculature in order to ambulate. Brain and musculature both would be the only systems still getting oxygen, delivered by the animating Z-factor, probably by osmosis, but nowhere near as efficiently as a functional cardiopulmonary system.

A human body, even a dead one, is still about 90% water, and water freezes in the winter when the temperatures drop below 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Zombies have no body heat, so they would freeze solid, including moisture in their brain. When water freezes, it expands, so any fluid in the brain or around it such as the subarachnoid area on the surface of the brain would freeze and cause rupturing of the brain tissue and extensive trauma, destroying the zombie in all likelihood.

Even if they could somehow survive such brain trauma, they would be frozen solid, unable to move, and would be easy pickings for any human with a weapon.
If a zombie could exist, the brain would have to remain alive in order to send neurological impulses to the musculature in order to ambulate. Brain and musculature both would be the only systems still getting oxygen, delivered by the animating Z-factor, probably by osmosis, but nowhere near as efficiently as a functional cardiopulmonary system.

A human body, even a dead one, is still about 90% water, and water freezes in the winter when the temperatures drop below 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Zombies have no body heat, so they would freeze solid, including moisture in their brain. When water freezes, it expands, so any fluid in the brain or around it such as the subarachnoid area on the surface of the brain would freeze and cause rupturing of the brain tissue and extensive trauma, destroying the zombie in all likelihood.

Even if they could somehow survive such brain trauma, they would be frozen solid, unable to move, and would be easy pickings for any human with a weapon.

Edit: as much as I like answers from my Contacts, I need to clarify a point about clothing. Clothing is not inherently "warm" - it is inherently "insulate. A jacket cannot "warm you up" if you have no body heat for the jacket to trap and conduct back to you. Clothing also reduces skin-to-air loss of heat by minimizing conduction and convection of air currents over your skin, but that doesn't help if you have no body heat in the first place. No offense, I just had to clarify that point