Zombie attacks might increase due to global warming, study shows

http://wmbriggs.com/blog/2008/01/31/zombie-attacks-might-increase-due-to-global-warming-study-shows/ ^ | William M Briggs

[mattstat]

A new study by scientists has suggested that zombie attacks might increase if the current projections of global warming are realized. “If the earth gets warmer, it means longer springs, summers, and falls, and shorter winters,” said John Carpenter-Romero, Ph.D., a zombie-ologist who co-authored the study. “And shorter winters means more time for the undead to prey on the populace.”

Dr. Harrister, the other co-author, and head of Zombie Robotics at Wayward Robot, Inc., explained that cold winters typically stalled the walking dead. “It is well known that zombies can’t operate in cold weather. It freezes their brains.”

The pair calculated a 32.782412% increase in zombie attacks if CO2 increased to twice its pre-industrial rate. “Clearly, this is a very troubling result,” said Dr. Harrister, “If we don’t do something soon, the streets will be filled with blood.”

[rottndog]

TOP 'O THE PAGE TOO YA!!

[Dead Corpse]

Yep. They name their distros too. The most recent, 7.10, is called "Gutsy-Gibbon". 7.04 was "Feisty-Fawn"

Go figure...

[rottndog]

I know, I know....call me MOTO!

[Dead Corpse]

Hello Moto...

[darkangel82]

Morning(or afternoon here, since it’s 12:18)

[darkangel82]

tagline change

[rottndog]

I hear this year may be Goodbye Moto...

(nice eye-candy to start the day on, though)

[rottndog]

Good Morning.

Excellent choice in tagline.

[rottndog]

Must transplant meself out to the cow patties...

See Ya!

[Monkey Face]

Tiptoe through the tulips!

[Monkey Face]

LOL!

That’s a hard way to learn it, though. Good thing she was easy to find.

Where were the Guard Katz during all this? Asleep on the job, no doubt...

[HKMk23]

By “LiveCD” I assume you mean bootable, so I could lay down the image on a CD then reboot to that disk and be “live” in the new O/S?

[sionnsar]

Marching Through the Meadow Muffins!

[sionnsar]

Exactly. You'd download an ISO (.iso) image of the CD, then burn that image to the CD *as an ISO image* (not as a file!). Reboot from that CD and you'll have the new O/S running.

Some LiveCDs run out of RAM strictly, others may ask to create a swap file on the hard drive. The latter may get you better performance; they generally clean up when shutting down.

Some folks keep LiveCDs around to access a machine whose OS is toast.

[HKMk23]

Excellent!

I’m quite familiar with the LiveCD concept; just never heard it called that, before. I have a DVD that boots into the WinPE environment, which is like a compact Windows XP, that enables unfettered access to broken — or virus-infected — systems.

Google “Bart PE” and you’ll get a boatload of info.

[Monkey Face]

Crunching through the rabbit raisins!

[HKMk23]

Romping.

Gotta keep with the alliterative theme, yaknow. ;-)

[Monkey Face]

*curtsy*
I stand corrected.

LOL!!

[rottndog]

Frolicking through the Fertilizer Fields...

Speakin’ of which...rather ripe this morning.

[darkangel82]

Oh, so that’s what that stink was. For a minute I thought it was coming from DC.