Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Zombies and Math

A Canadian mathematician has researched and modeled what to do in the case of a zombie attack. Here's a link to an article about the study. His conclusion, based upon "modern zombies" is that only one strategy is likely to succeed: “impulsive eradication.” “Only sufficiently frequent attacks, with increasing force, will result in eradication, assuming the available resources can be mustered in time.” The real key is evidently acting quickly. “If the timescale of the outbreak increases, then the result is the doomsday scenario: an outbreak of zombies will result in the collapse of civilization, with every human infected, or dead.” “This is because human births and deaths will provide the undead with a limitless supply of new bodies to infect, resurrect and convert.” Just remember this next time you think math is useless and you’ll never use the things you have to study!

2 comments:

  1. Rule #1: Go up the stairs
    Rule #2: Destroy the stairs

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  2. I, for one, welcome our new zombie overlords.

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