Further zombiology: "When the zombies take over, how long till the electricity fails?"
http://bit.ly/kead3 On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 11:44 AM, james morris <[email protected]> wrote: > >>See also "When Zombies Attack!: Mathematical Modelling of an Outbreak of >>Zombie Infection" >> >>http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/zombies/ > > Sorry, neglected to notice a direct link to the paper itself: > > http://www.mathstat.uottawa.ca/~rsmith/Zombies.pdf > > Which includes code (unsure which programming language it is) for the > model too. > > > >>On 1/11/2009, "info" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>A Brief History Of Zombies. >>> >>>James Turner, >>> >>>The sci-fi undead are personifications of technology gone horribly wrong. >>> >>>The atomic bombs that dropped on Japan in 1945 inspired movie director >>>Ishiro Honda to give the world the big, bad, grey monster, born of >>>irresponsible nuclear weapons tests that we know to this day as >>>Godzilla. Godzilla was, quite literally, the personification of >>>humanity's science and technology gone bad. The message was simple: With >>>atomic weapons, we had unleashed a monster that was beyond our ability >>>to control. >>> >>>In the West, Godzilla's cautionary tale (and tail) never really took >>>hold. To Americans, Godzilla was just a guy in a rubber suit stepping on >>>model houses. But that's not to say that the West hasn't had its own >>>cinematic symbol of science run amuck. Instead of giant irradiated >>>monsters, our preferred poison has been flesh-eating zombies. >>>Article Controls >>> >>>Until George Romero's landmark 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead, >>>zombies in movies usually were created from voodoo or magic (or aliens, >>>as featured in Ed Wood's groundbreakingly awful Plan 9 From Outer >>>Space.) Romero gave us brain-munching corpses produced from a space >>>probe blowing up in the atmosphere. Once again, the monsters were >>>created by our out-of-control technology. >>> >>>more... >>>http://tinyurl.com/yd8vvtj >>>_______________________________________________ >>>NetBehaviour mailing list >>>[email protected] >>>http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>> >>_______________________________________________ >>NetBehaviour mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- Dougald Hine - http://dougald.co.uk/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
