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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Assumptions for the math: that vampires feed once a month and that when they feed, a human dies and a vampire is created.
Hmmph. I hold that smart vampires would not kill their prey every time they feed, because killing off the food supply is a bad plan.
Louis fed on animals. Was Anne Rice on this dissertation committee?
Happy Anniversary Jilli and Pete!
There are children and families trick or treating in my building. They are loud.
It's nice to see modern science dealing so rationally with vampires and zombies.
I am pretty sure it's turn two, the rest are food.
I am pretty sure it's turn two, the rest are food.
Well, you and Harmony are in agreement.
I'm just not sure I want that company.
Okay, between 2 & 3 I have a break, but the space in my calendar looks booked (why, yes, I am that person I complained about--but I only do it two hours a week, and sometimes I go to those meetings...) so I might lie down. Feel gross.
Which I'm sure is unrelated to the free pizza lunch.
money quote: "We conclude that if the first vampire appeared on January 1st of 1600 AD, humanity would have been wiped out by June of 1602, two and half years later"
Assumptions for the math: that vampires feed once a month and that when they feed, a human dies and a vampire is created.
That's hysterical. And I also question their assumptions!
I realize a big chunk of my job is playing telephone, but it is EXHAUSTING. Also I'm supposed to be working on the big project I mentioned earlier!
(I'd assume more frequent feeding and that humans might just flat out die and not resurrect as a vampire), but that would shorten the projects of humanity wipe out, not lengthen.
No it wouldn't - turning someone every time is how you get the exponential increases in number of vamps that creates catstrophic failure of the ecosystem.
I do recall seeing a similar theory about whether or not you should be afraid of zombies. Zombies I think we can presume either kill or turn with every contact. Therefore, if zombies were fast and hence dangerous, they would have wiped out humanity in short order. So clearly zombies are either a) not real or b) not something you need to worry about.
Therefore, if zombies were fast and hence dangerous, they would have wiped out humanity in short order
How do they spread across oceans?
Slowly?