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Some unknown person posted a link on the ZRC blog. It is a link to this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/18/zombie_plague_paper/
Oh. Em. See. (for Cthulhu.)
Basically this guy wrote a serious mathematical paper where he concludes that, in the event of a zombie outbreak, humanity's only option is to shoot on sight. Here is an actual quote from the actual paper:
Human-zombie coexistence is impossible... Since all eigenvalues of the doomsday equilibrium are negative, it is asymptotically stable. It follows that, in a short outbreak, zombies will likely infect everyone.
Okay, so I didn't actually go far enough in math to know what the hell an eigenvalue is besides something to do with matrices (and I hate matrix math so that's about as much as I care to know. Seriously. Matrices are jerks and probably they kicked my puppy at some point, even though I've never actually owned a puppy.) But... something about that excerpt just fills my blackened heart with delight. It's the combination of erudition and zombies, I think. "Blah blah blah math blah. Zombies will likely infect everyone."
This isn't sarcasm, by the way. It's hard to tell with me sometimes, because I fall in love with the weirdest shit, but today it's this paper that some dude in Canada wrote. Also, he changed his legal name to Smith?, which is awesome even if it does lead to questions of how you pronounce it. I think I'd always pronounce it as a question. At least until he punched me.
Unrelated: who is going to Freak Fest as a zombie rights protester tomorrow night? It would be nice if it was you! Probably it's just me, though.
Oh. Em. See. (for Cthulhu.)
Basically this guy wrote a serious mathematical paper where he concludes that, in the event of a zombie outbreak, humanity's only option is to shoot on sight. Here is an actual quote from the actual paper:
Human-zombie coexistence is impossible... Since all eigenvalues of the doomsday equilibrium are negative, it is asymptotically stable. It follows that, in a short outbreak, zombies will likely infect everyone.
Okay, so I didn't actually go far enough in math to know what the hell an eigenvalue is besides something to do with matrices (and I hate matrix math so that's about as much as I care to know. Seriously. Matrices are jerks and probably they kicked my puppy at some point, even though I've never actually owned a puppy.) But... something about that excerpt just fills my blackened heart with delight. It's the combination of erudition and zombies, I think. "Blah blah blah math blah. Zombies will likely infect everyone."
This isn't sarcasm, by the way. It's hard to tell with me sometimes, because I fall in love with the weirdest shit, but today it's this paper that some dude in Canada wrote. Also, he changed his legal name to Smith?, which is awesome even if it does lead to questions of how you pronounce it. I think I'd always pronounce it as a question. At least until he punched me.
Unrelated: who is going to Freak Fest as a zombie rights protester tomorrow night? It would be nice if it was you! Probably it's just me, though.
