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Some researchers did mathematical modeling regarding a hypothetical zombie attack. Some of the disturbing findings of the study:

"An outbreak of zombies infecting humans is likely to be disastrous, unless extremely aggressive tactics are employed against the undead. While aggressive quarantine may eradicate the infection, this is unlikely to happen in practice. A cure would only result in some humans surviving the outbreak, although they will still coexist with zombies. Only sufficiently frequent attacks, with increasing force, will result in eradication, assuming the available resources can be mustered in time." :D

Link to pdf of the study is here:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.159.6699&rep=rep1&type=pdf

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As entertainment, the zombie concept is intriguing. But the article says in the beginning that for zombies to exist, a "sorcerer" has to reanimate them.

I mean, really?

They ment to put "government scientist" in there.....not sorcerer. Guess they need to fire the proof readers........:P

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As entertainment, the zombie concept is intriguing. But the article says in the beginning that for zombies to exist, a "sorcerer" has to reanimate them.

I mean, really?

Yeah, reanimated dead type zombies make good movies, stories, etc. but aren't all that likely whether reanimated by sorcery or a radioactive space probe. The more recent type of 'zombie' - infected humans who were never dead but who have been driven violently insane by some virus, etc. and have nothing of their former selves remaining - seem more plausible. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out that some bioweapons expert, somewhere was already hard at work trying to create a virus, nerve agent or similar which would give just such results.

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Somebodies tax dollars probably funded this 'research'.:P

Actually, my understanding is that it was some PhD students who did it for entertainment value. Being a PhD student myself, I can vouch that grad students generally get zero funding for research. If I read it correctly when I found it, the only actual professor is the last author and he actually does publish under the last name "Smith?" with the question mark being intentional. Mmm... yeah... Besides, they were from Canada so if the government paid for it there, it's no skin off of my teeth.

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