I don't know, man. Something's keeping him alive...
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 ...
That might be because violent criminals don’t write stories.
That’s part of the “suspend your disbelief.” A running zombie would fly apart after a few days. Not to mention one of the earliest things to decompose, the face and the jaws.
I guess...Kinda like studying Porky Pig for art class, huh???
Yeah, but i bet their stupid model didn’t account for leaders like Rick with his Colt Python!
Since 47% of the country are already a liberal zombies...
I don't know, man. Something's keeping him alive...
Gee, 100 days after Trump is inaugurated, they expect a Zombie apocalypse.
WRONG
The scenario depends on whether the zombies are “fast zombies” such as in World War Z or “slow zombies” such as in The Walking Dead.
I hate fast zombies.
You can run outta gas and bullets but you never run outta blade.
;D
Very cool!
Anyone who believes the dead can't come to life has never been in a government office at 5 PM.
“In a more hopeful follow-up study, students worked out humans could prolong the survival of the species by killing off zombies”
Maybe that’d be OK in some big cities, but come out to the countryside pretty much anywhere, and there’s enough firepower to finish off an invading army, let alone a bunch of noisy deaders. Add to that the fact that tens of millions have watched various zombie movies and TV series, and know what to do. Oh, the zombies will have their effect, to be sure, but armed humanity will put them down for good in pretty short order. Even if national and state governments fall apart (and that could be the silver lining in this cloud), locals would organize around military personnel (current and former) who know how to fight in groups to great effect, how to take advantage of the weapons systems at hand and the terrain.
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I’m ready for the ‘bama zombies!
Bring’em on.
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“The real dying would start when heavily armed rednecks started shooting each other because the zombies were all killed off in the first 24 hours, by the rednecks.”
My girls right now are 13 and 15, same age as Faith and Sophia. They make me play the audiobooks over and over, and my youngest keeps asking if there is a zombie apocalypse, will I (a) let her use all the bad words that Faith gets to use, and (b) give her my HK USP.
“ZOMBIES AREN’T REAL! are they?”
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