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Old 10-18-2009, 01:20 PM   #3
Scriveyn
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Academic studies seem to like the subject. Here's one from Canada that I remember from the BBC news.

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If zombies actually existed, an attack by them would lead to the collapse of civilisation unless dealt with quickly and aggressively.

That is the conclusion of a mathematical exercise carried out by researchers in Canada.

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But there is a serious side to the work.

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In some respects, a zombie "plague" resembles a lethal, rapidly spreading infection.

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Even so, their analysis revealed that a strategy of capturing or curing the zombies would only put off the inevitable.

In their scientific paper, the authors conclude that humanity's only hope is to "hit them [the undead] hard and hit them often".

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