Rag Times

The Atacama desert is actually where NASA conducts its test-runs for sending machines to Mars. The locations are virtually identical. There’s no moisture and no life. If you die in the Atacama, you don’t even rot. Scientists have found bodies, thousands of years old, that look as fresh as the day they keeled over. This is it. This is literally the most inhospitable place on the surface of the Earth. There are microbes in the calderas of volcanos, but there isn’t a single one here.

(via yaldabaoth)

I could see the potential here for a Romero zombie movie, since he turned them into vaguely sympathetic creatures in Land of the Dead (and I hear Diary continues the trend), I could see them migrating to a land where they can exist without decaying. Then again, that sounds like it would make a pretty shitty zombie movie.