The Best Approach For Avoiding Zombies 15
BuzzSkyline writes "Last month, math students published a model of a zombie infestation that explained how the disease might spread. A new physics paper offers help for the more immediate problem — how to avoid being eaten. The paper, which recently appeared in the journal Physical Review E, considers where best to hide when being pursued by zombie-like predatory 'random walkers.' Although the researchers weren't thinking of zombies when they wrote the paper, the abstract describes the research as focusing on 'the survival probability of immobile targets annihilated by a population of random walkers.' (Sounds like a zombie movie premise to me.) The bottom line is you're better off the more labyrinth-like your hiding place is. So take a lesson from Dawn of the Dead, and hunker down in the mall, not in a farmhouse (as in Night of the Living Dead)."
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No, an Empty fully stocked with fuel and food cruise ship! Just go offshore a mile and drop anchor. Safe for at least a few years or the next Hurricane in which case by then all of the zombies have starved to death.
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Safe until the zombies figure out how to walk across the ocean floor and climb up your anchor line, you mean.
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1. The zombies would have to first see your vessel from the shoreline and have the deductive powers to target it - without being able smelling your brains. Unless you're proposing random sea-floor walking zombies happen across your anchor, which I think would still take several years to occur by chance.
2. Walking across the ocean floor would be extremely difficult (especially the first bit), given the oceanic currents at play even underwater. Not having air to breathe is not the onl
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Actually, a high-tech modified zeppelin would be better, because you run the risk of your ship getting swarmed by zombie birds. Zeppelins can go much higher than birds can, but you might have to have a vegetarian diet. The zeppelin could divert the sunlight it receives into multiple growth decks, where the plants would sustain a small colony of people. You may wonder where the water comes from, but respiration actually generates water, so as long as you have a device that captures humidity and seal up the a
A prison/jail is better than a mall (Score:3, Interesting)
I would think a prison/jail would be the best defensive colony option. Give everyone the key to their cell, minimize group gathering. This way when on of the good guys turns into a zombie damage is minimized. The solid exterior doors, tall razor wire topped fences, guard towers, back up generators, air lock like entry systems, etc. are a nice bonus also.
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No! Don't tell the Zombies our Plan! (Score:2)
Great, just great. I WAS planning on hiding out at the MALL, rather than my farm house, but since you've alerted every zombie who reads slashdot (and ALL zombies read slashdot), I'll be hiding out in my farmhouse.