Posted on 08/18/2009 5:10:00 PM PDT by dynachrome
Civilisation would most likely be finished in the event of a zombie outbreak, claim Canadian mathematicians who have calculated the possible devastation caused by an attack by the fictional monsters. Using models developed to calculate the effects of more plausible pandemics, the team from the University of Ottawa have discovered that unless man struck back quickly and aggressively then they would be doomed.
The scientific paper, which is published in a book Infectious Diseases Modelling Research Progress, looks at an attack by the undead creatures, who infect the living with a bite.
In their study, titled When Zombies Attack!, the researchers picked classic slow-moving zombies such as those in Dawn of the Dead as models and divided humanity into three: the living, zombies and the removed zombies who had been killed by decapitation.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
More things to worry about.
And this is why zombie war preparation is vital!
There are zombies among us now!
Yes, might be a little more complicated because of the need for head shots, but our military would be more than capable of accomplishing the task.
The biggest problem with zombies is their strange ability to get their must faster human victims to fall down when running away or to hold up in deserted remote farm houses.
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“B-r-r-r-r-r-a-a-a-a-a-i-i-i-i-i-i-n-s!”
Zombie ping!
Zombie bump
How did I miss this important news?
It must be a VERY slow news day. Actually, given the Telegraph’s recent output it must be a very slow news month.
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