Infectious disease researchers at Carleton and Ottawa U have released a mathematical model of just how long civilization could withstand collapse if attacked by - wait for it - Zombies!
Yes, zombies, those movie creatures that stagger along trying to eat your brain. From BBC News:
The scientific paper is published in a book - Infectious Diseases Modelling Research Progress.
In books, films, video games and folklore, zombies are undead creatures, able to turn the living into other zombies with a bite.
But there is a serious side to the work.
In some respects, a zombie "plague" resembles a lethal rapidly-spreading infection. The researchers say the exercise could help scientists model the spread of unfamiliar diseases through human populations.
Okay, so maybe there is a legitimate purpose for this modeling but it would help if one of the leaders, an Ottawa U mathematics prof, didn't spell his last name, Smith, with a question mark - that's right Smith? Oh yeah, the research showed we'd last days at best.
And did they really have to use zombies? Couldn't they have used a plague of Republicans instead?
Yes, zombies, those movie creatures that stagger along trying to eat your brain. From BBC News:
The scientific paper is published in a book - Infectious Diseases Modelling Research Progress.
In books, films, video games and folklore, zombies are undead creatures, able to turn the living into other zombies with a bite.
But there is a serious side to the work.
In some respects, a zombie "plague" resembles a lethal rapidly-spreading infection. The researchers say the exercise could help scientists model the spread of unfamiliar diseases through human populations.
Okay, so maybe there is a legitimate purpose for this modeling but it would help if one of the leaders, an Ottawa U mathematics prof, didn't spell his last name, Smith, with a question mark - that's right Smith? Oh yeah, the research showed we'd last days at best.
And did they really have to use zombies? Couldn't they have used a plague of Republicans instead?
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And did they really have to use zombies? Couldn't they have used a plague of Republicans instead?
Zombies,... Republicans,... same thing
My bad. I should have realized they're both undead, brain-eaters.
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