General Why Should We Study Zombie Attacks?

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Last month, a group of mathematicians grabbed headlines with their mathematical model of the zombie apocalypse. But as one science journalist notes, such studies are more than amusing academic anecdotes; they can actually serve a very legitimate social interest.

Patrick J. Kiger, a journalist and blogger for the Science Channel, has been criticized for focusing on technologies in his column Is This a Good Idea? that currently exist only in the realm of speculative fiction. To answer those critics, Kiger looks at the recent study by mathematicians in Ottawa as to the best response to a zombie outbreak. What good, Kiger asks, is it to study a phenomenon that we know does not actually exist?

Kiger spends some time contemplating whether or not we might actually have to fear attacks from the flesh-eating undead, but ultimately, his point is that the possibility of a literal zombie attack is irrelevant to the value of such studies. Studying zombie attacks is valuable, he argues, precisely because they represent a level of crisis that we do not have any experience with, and our ability to logically respond to such a crisis:

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Why Should We Study Zombie Attacks?

Last month, a group of mathematicians grabbed headlines with their mathematical model of the zombie apocalypse. But as one science journalist notes, such studies are more than amusing academic anecdotes; they can actually serve a very legitimate social interest.
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Cheesy said:
Step 1: Drop your cocks and grab your socks
Step 2: Find shotguns
Step 3: Go to the nearest Wal-Mart
Step 4: ????
Step 5: Profit!
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Actually its nearest Costco. Sure it may be hard to defend but its got EVERYTHING :thup:. IMO, Shotguns arent as good as flamethrowers or rocketlauchers. Maybe a hand grenade or a serious shot to the face :rolleyes:

(Goes back to playing Resident Evil 4)
 
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Dude. Shotguns > All.

Get it right.

Me n 2 buds would go pwn some face. Since we'd all be immune one way or another.
 
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Thank god I know someone with a yacht, all I'm sayin.
 
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One of these days some one's going to try to wipe out people through something like this, and 90% of humans are going to be immune, and the other 10% are going to get slaughtered.

I have a feeling it's going to be the shotgun companies who try it, they currently would gain the most from a Zombie attack. :p
 
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My father was on the force. He has very big experience with guns and he told me that the smallest pistol can be deadly. He also laughed at every shooter with the words "After the first shot you will be screaming with pain and you won't be able to aim let alone shoot" If zombies have a nerve system, they will be as such as vulnerable as humans to pain.

So if zombies are just dead people... are you kidding me ? I mean they die as well. Without substance after a couple of weeks the zombies might roar all they want: their musciles will be too weak to lift the weight of their flesh... I think that either there is some super secret weapon no one has told us about, or those dudes are spending their get laid time with RE4 and RE5
 
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What exactly is new about this news? Didnt they just "discover" the obvious?
 
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I think you missed the reference ;(.

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Yeah, sure. Waste millions of dollars on studying zombie attacks that cannot happen outside of video game reality instead of researching technology that actually matters.

Learn to prioritize, please.
 
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T.s.e said:
Yeah, sure. Waste millions of dollars on studying zombie attacks that cannot happen outside of video game reality instead of researching technology that actually matters.

Learn to prioritize, please.
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There are lots of parasites and viruses that are known in the animal kingdom that can attack the brain and control it's victim and it so it can reproduce or protect it, what do you think the concept of the "T-Virus" is? It's just a human version of it. I think we should study more about those "controlling viruses" so they don't evolved by using us.

Just two examples of "Zombie" symptoms


 
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Shotgun ftw! Flamethrower only if you're like moving in a big place... cuz then you might burn you friends... :D

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