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The Great Stanford Buffy Population Equilibrium Study

Posted by chrisd on from the spike-as-cellular-automata dept.

Suture writes "A PhD candidate in ecology at Stanford University has done an ecological analysis of humans and vampires in Sunnydale, the home of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He took some initial assumptions on rates of population growth, vampire feeding, etc and plugged them into a differential equations model. What he got was an equilibrium human population of 36,346, and an vampire population of around 18, and furthermore the equilibrium is stable. His conclusion was that even though the show's designers are not ecologists, they managed to come up with ideas that actually made ecological sense. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see a pretty cool spiral graph of human population vs vampire population."

2 of 302 comments (clear)

  1. In Sunnydale CA by Ayanami+Rei · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The college students perform quadrature to determine equilibrium human/vampire ecologies.

    In SOVIET RUSSIA, the vampires integrate YOU!!!

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    THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
  2. Or how about this one... by Ayanami+Rei · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    In SOVIET RUSSIA, the vampires are real, and they are integrating YOU!!!

    (They are truely math wizards)

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    THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON