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A Mathematical Model For a Spreading Zombie Infestation
cloude-pottier writes "What do you do when zombies attack? Turn to a mathematician to come up with a model for the spread of a zombie infestation, of course! Students at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa have published a paper in a book titled Infectious Disease Modelling Research Progress detailing how to model the spread of a zombie population and various complications in managing the spread of the infestation. They even give humans a fighting chance in some cases! The original paper (PDF) can be found at their professor's website."
even older prior art older_zombie
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
Until we manage to create real zombies and release them on the population, we'll never be able to test the model.
There are already three different test cases that have been released into the populace: teabaggers, birthers and deathers.
In all cases, mental activity is absolutely zero, yet they keep moving around, menacing the living, going after anyone who looks like they have a brain. The teabagger test case flamed out fairly quickly, the birthers took quit a bit longer, and the deathers are still going.
There's even a new game coming out, a sequel to the Left 4 Dead franchise, to be called 'Jingos 4 Jesus'. Can't wait!
None of the inhabitants are Barack Obama.