The Great Stanford Buffy Population Equilibrium Study

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."

Comments

Great Scott

[CakerX]

what people do in there free time. Kinda intresting but, can't they pick a more intresting topic

Re:holy

[CakerX]

that has got to be a bad photoshop, if that is real, I am scared, seriously scared, and scarred for that matter

another boring slashdot story

[dcstimm]

Oh well, good news is bad news..

Re:You can get a Ph.D for that?!

[grape_soda]

wtf? did miss something here? does that post have any direct relation to the topic at hand? dont get me wrong.. was funny as hell but..

Re:Pardon my skepticism

[Stalyn]

but of course we should trust you since your name is PhysicsGenius.

first time to post here

[Aquamouth]

I've been a part of this community for the past few months and this is my first time posting a message. On the subject of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I had a teacher who is a really devoted fan of this show. Anyhow, I'll quit my yelping for now. I will post more stuff in the future. Thank you to my friend Matt for telling me about this place.