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Physicists Prove That Vampires Could Not Exist
You can put away your wooden stakes, and stop hanging garlic around the windows, thanks to Physicists Costas Efthimiou and Sohang Gandhi. The pair have published a paper where they demonstrate, by virtue of geometric progression, that vampires could not exist. It turns out that the vampire's method of feeding and reproduction would deplete their food supply very quickly. Their paper, "Cinema Fiction vs. Physics Reality," assumes that the first vampire appeared on January 1, 1600 and shows that everybody on the planet would have had their blood drained by June, 1602.
...something a vampire would say.
It also assumes that every human that gets bitten turns into a vampire, which is not the case in many (most?) universes.
I don't see how this proves anything. Geometric progression doesn't mean crap when they A: don't have to suck you dry to get through a day, and B: being sucked dry doesn't automatically turn you into a vampire.
With those 2 things in mind...
The whole geometric progression seems completely Incorrect.
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