[DogByte6RER]

[DogByte6RER]

[DogByte6RER]

[Rio]

(bN)(S/N)Z = bSZ

What am I missing?
b, S, N, and Z all cancel each other out!

[Bryanw92]

>> (with N representing total population, S the number of susceptible people, Z the zombies, and bthe likelihood of transmission).

Stupid leftist forgot the put in the AR-15 factor.

[pcottraux]

I don’t understand the zombie obsession taking place in our society. How much time and effort was put into this scientific study?

When are people going to start realizing that zombies aren’t real, and the zombie apocalypse is NOT coming?

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

Lemme see...

Got the Shaker, some ice, creme de almond, premium 150 proof rum, some triple sec, orange juice, some lemon juice and the maraschino cherries have been soaking in the ever-clear.

I'm ready for some zombies!

[PA Engineer]

"They don't fly or live forever, so you can apply real-world biological models to them."

Stupid journalists.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I figure if you build a fortress on top of a mountain in the Sonora desert, and put black basalt boulders on the sides of the mountain, no zombie could make it to the top without getting cooked.

The black basalt in Craters of the Moon National Monument, in *Idaho* can reach 150F in summer. Imagine what it would be like in southern Arizona, when it’s perhaps 125F in the shade.

[Tanniker Smith]

Been there. Done that.

Check out Fibonacci . . . With Zombies!.

[Snickering Hound]

[Vince Ferrer]

It also shows that zombies would overtake the world— there's no chance for a "stable equilibrium" in which humans could coexist with the undead or eradicate the disease.

Zombies are dead, they will not reproduce and have child zombies, and don't heal up all that well. They would have to continue decomposing at some rate, even if they are reanimated. In any real zombie infestation, out lasting them would be pretty easy if you have a good supply of food and water to last a couple of months and locked your doors.

In the original Night of the Living Dead, the main characters had to spend one night boarded up in a farmhouse. By the next morning, the remaining townspeople had rallied together, brought out weapons, and were on the attack, swiftly slicing through the undead like a hot knife through butter. A real infestation would be more like that.

[GeronL]

Breaking news: Zombie outbreak in Texas and Arizona!!!

Update at 10pm: Never mind, they were all shot by the many many firearms owners in those states

[ZOOKER]

Too many unknowns.

Are we talking about SLOW zombies or QUICK ones? In the original movie the zombies were slow-witted and none too agile. In some movies you could outrun them easily in the daytime and sleep safely in trees at night. Other movies had much more capable zombies, able to run, speak, and reason in a limited fashion. Which variables in the equation define these factors?

Are these standard flesh-eaters or the finicky brain-eating variety of animated corpse? Food availability is limited if zombies only eat brains. There could be severe shortages, especially in liberal enclaves.

In WWZ we see the debut of the 12-second zombie - from first infection to rabid monster in literally 12 seconds. Much more dangerous than in other films, where it takes anywhere from 3 minutes to several days to succumb. Once again, are these calculations for quick or slow zombies?

Contrary to popular belief, zombies can't live forever. They should have to obey natural laws like the rest of us. They expend energy shambling around, and must replace it somehow (eat) or run down and stop like unwound watches. I think it was 28 Days Later where the zombies all eventually ran down, fell on the ground and although they didn't die, they could move no more. The people were safe as long as they didn't actually step on one...

[baddog 219]

[Kip Russell]

World War Z (the novel, not the movie) by Max Brooks takes a "scientific" approach somewhere along these lines...saying, essentially, "Here are the rules of how zombies work. Given that, what are the consequences of an outbreak?"

I really like the book. Haven't seen the movie yet, I understand it's quite different.

[a fool in paradise]

This equation could spell your doom: (bN)(S/N)Z = bSZ. That is, if you ever found yourself in the midst of a zombie pandemic. That's because the calculation describes the rate of zombie transmission, from one walking dead individual to many, according to its creators, Robert J. Smith?, a mathematics professor at the University of Ottawa who spells his name with a "?" at the end, and his students.

Based on the same flawed mathematical models as the mythical man made global warming, no doubt.

"the rate of zombie transmission" is purely theoretical at this point. Is it "x"? A constant? Is transmission always a given or is there any immunity (consider The Last Man On Earth)? Is it a slow process of transformation (as it was earlier in the Romero movies) or instantaneous (as in modern fare)? What is the manor by which dead bodies are reanimated that have not been bitten by a "zombie" (this too was observed in the early Romero film cycle)?

Too many unknowns to be offering a speculative formula at this point to determine the "odds of survival".

[a fool in paradise]

Maybe the next Captain America film should be a reboot of the cycle and adapt the story where Hitler creates a zombie army:

[RandallFlagg]

Thanks to DogByte6RER for the ping. Sorry so late.

[Jack Hydrazine]

This spent 30 years in the Alaskan bush starting in 1968.
http://www.dickproenneke.com/

Finally came back to civilization at age 82 in 1998.