Posted on 01/05/2017 1:48:46 PM PST by BenLurkin
Using their hypothesis — that a zombie has a 90 per cent chance of turning a human into a zombie once it has found said human, and that a zombie could find at least one human a day — they predicted how long the population could hold out using the SIR model, an epidemiological model that describes the spread of a disease throughout a population.
Using the model, they split the population into three categories; the susceptible population (S), zombie (Z) and dead (D).
The lifespan of a zombie, they worked out, goes thus: S,Z,D. Natural birth and death rates did not feature in the working, as 100 days as the zombie epidemic took place over 100 days, which meant the natural births and deaths were negligible compared to the zombie virus.
The model works out how much infected humans come into contact with non-infected humans, and how likely it is one will spread the disease to the other.
Human survival rates were pitiful, with only a tiny amount of the population alive over the duration of the zombie apocalypse.
In a more hopeful follow-up study, students worked out humans could prolong the survival of the species by killing off zombies and having babies in the nightmare scenario.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
“are they?”
I work with many of them.
It’s already here. I see zombies in the supermarket every time I go in there.
Can I assume tax dollars were used for this “research?”
Did they calculate how many flamethrowers would be needed, with how much fuel, to incinerate the entire slow moving and bunched together groups within the zombie population?
Whoa...just how old are you ?
Really, don’t these people have anything better to do?
And Vincent Price fought off massed zombie vampires years before Omega Man.
What a stupid model. What it fails to take into account is that currently we don't hunt down and eliminate people who have infectious deceases.
I personally give zombie invasion about 24 hours, maybe 48 for us to clean up the liberal gun free zones.
Nonsense. Who’s money were they wasting?
This is a simple application of predator-prey principles and the logistic function. The extinction of healthy humans would either be asymptotic, or an equilibrium would be reached.
No, it couldn’t, because zombies do not exist.
They weren’t until they appeared in the O’BOMBA era. Another disease he has let loose on American society.
Sadly, our local public school system teaches about the Zombie Apocalypse!
I’ve always wondered why Rick ‘n the gang don’t fire up some heavy equipment when they need to take out the rotters on an industrial basis. And why didn’t they just blow the road to that quarry and then take them out at leisure?
Yes like about half of the US right now which is bellow zero.
I don't think frozen zombies get to eat much.
It was thought V Price was the last man during the vampire infestation. Was it zombies or was it vampires? And does it make a difference?
Actually they were mutants, not vampires or zombies.
The true Zombie Apocalypse could be caused by an EMP
-—As described in book One Second After...
I’m just going to have to make due with a chainsaw and human-like reflexes :(
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