Aug 17 2009Canadians Create Mathematical Model For Successfully Surviving Zombie Apocalypse

Since there's no hockey on some Canadian mathematicians have shifted their efforts to creating a mathematical model for surviving the zombie uprising. And you said nothing good ever came out of Canada! That guy, right there -- he's the one that said it. GET HIM, CANUCKS!
Anyway, the model focuses on modern zombies, which are "very different from the voodoo and the folklore zombies." It takes into account the possibility of quarantine (could lead to eradication, but unlikely to happen) and treatment (some humans survive, but they still must coexist with zombies), but shows that there is only one strategy likely to succeed: "impulsive eradication."
"Only sufficiently frequent attacks, with increasing force, will result in eradication, assuming the available resources can be mustered in time," they concluded.
Pfft, I came up with a better model than that. It goes like this: me + shovel = zombie - head. Zombie - head = that zombieskin rug I've always wanted in front of the fire place! Now, who wants to make out on top of it?!? I'm not sick, you're sick.
Mathematical Model for Surviving a Zombie Attack [wired]
Thanks to Dahbie, who will survive the apocalypse no matter what because of jet propulsion (I'm coming with you).

Reader Comments
1. Britt - August 17, 2009 3:22 PM
rawr
2. Mr. cow - August 17, 2009 3:24 PM
Moo
3. GoSS Jerk - August 17, 2009 3:25 PM
I thought Canadians were zombies... isnt that where the rest of the world dumps them?
4. catch22 - August 17, 2009 3:30 PM
proof that canadians have nothing better to do
5. yan - August 17, 2009 3:31 PM
Canada = Even NORTHER Dakota
and remember folks... french canadians are as bad as the real thing
6. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - August 17, 2009 3:32 PM
Canadian beer sucks.
7. jaja - August 17, 2009 3:34 PM
GW. You're too funny for our universe. How do you come up with this stuff ? :D
8. fetus_mcnuggets - August 17, 2009 3:46 PM
OH CANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNADAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA OUR HOME AND NATIVE LANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNND !!!!!
true patriot love for all the sons cummmmmand :)
9. Calabasa209 - August 17, 2009 3:47 PM
@5
french+canadian= french canadian
are you sure you dont mean worse??
10. supernova_hq - August 17, 2009 3:48 PM
@Gordon "Fücking" Shumway
Do you know what sex in a canoe and American beer have in common?
BTW, Skiline Chilli sucks :p
11. Hawk - August 17, 2009 3:50 PM
Canadians are bored!
Moo! ...er, I mean, Chirp! DAMN YOU MR COW!!
*shakes winged fist*
12. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - August 17, 2009 3:55 PM
@10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Bacon
Welcome to Geekologie. You must be new here. Now STFU and GTFO.
13. «Vampirescu» - August 17, 2009 4:06 PM
I just participated in a zombie walk on sat with about 3000 undead in a horde downtown....Go Zombie Flash Mob!
14. Hawk - August 17, 2009 4:08 PM
Mmmm. Canoe beer!
"Put it back in the horse!"
-H. Allen Smith
15. Bill - August 17, 2009 4:19 PM
If you need some info on surviving the zombie apocalypse check out this site. It's pretty cool, just doesn't get updated a lot
www.zombiecrisis.org
16. Jared - August 17, 2009 4:23 PM
Let's see, here in canada we have the best snowboarding places, Healthy people (we don't have 20 fat people for one skinny person here) , and now, a way to survive a zombie apocolypse. canada ftw.
17. GoSS Jerk - August 17, 2009 4:26 PM
@ 16 F/U and you popsicle zombie testicles
18. Daisy - August 17, 2009 4:34 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max was in school when america got attacked. He went to the hunting gear store and got tents, sleeping bags, guns and ammo and camped in the woods and fought the communists.
19. Jon - August 17, 2009 4:36 PM
If you read the paper, a major flaw becomes clear. The population is split into three groups: living human (S), undead zombie (Z), and dead (R). The R population resurrects with rate zeta in the model, but this does not differentiate between the human dead and the zombie dead. Under the Kill the Brain Axiom, once a zombie is killed, it should be removed from the system completely! I think the faulty analysis that follows is merely Canadian propaganda designed to weaken America's response to zombie apocalypse.
20. Ollie Williams - August 17, 2009 4:44 PM
@19
You're way to smart to be posting here. Please leave.
21. Ollie Williams - August 17, 2009 4:45 PM
*too
See what I mean?
22. Calabasa209 - August 17, 2009 5:08 PM
@16
so snowboarding, skinny folks, and now a zombie formula??
i hate canada and i could come up with better stuff than that to like about canada, but you forgot that- 1. our military could destroy yours 100 times over. 2. our hockey and beer are better. 3. youre there. 4. your zombie formula is crap, but dont worry we (the states) will prob bail you out. 5. our weed and women are better
border hugging syrup sipping twat-anuck
your mounties wear stupid pants too
AMERICA FTW
23. ciao - August 17, 2009 5:23 PM
this is pretty useless. Everything can be used as a weapon, including the mighty spork!
24. JSDavidson - August 17, 2009 5:29 PM
@18
wtf?
25. ShitBitch Carl - August 17, 2009 5:35 PM
@ 22
I hate Canada and America, and I could come up with better (or at least more accurate) stuff than that.
1. Armed forces, in all forms (except those Swiss army knives), suck ass. And 1 000 times over is probably a closer estimate.
2. America's hockey isn't better just because you own all the teams (Canada> Russia> America)
4. America only bails out America
5. Your weed comes from Canada
You do have some solid women. Also, America has much better immigration policy, cheaper liquor and we gotta thank you for the blues.
26. Ollie Williams - August 17, 2009 5:48 PM
@24
Welcome to Geekologie. You must be new here.
27. Britt - August 17, 2009 5:52 PM
FIRST!! And in other news Canadian's are all gay and like Lady Gaga's dick nose
28. Calabasa209 - August 17, 2009 6:10 PM
@25
1. why exactly the armed forces "suck ass" isnt clear to me. i thought about adding that third 0, but went with a more modest (unnecessary with our firepower) estimate.
2. hockey sucks either way.
4. really??
5. my weed comes from the bay area, CA, USA
dont forget about the revolving pistol, blue jeans, crack cocaine, and the gas mask.
oh well who is john galt
29. Muffintits - August 17, 2009 8:10 PM
I'll make out with you on the zombie rug GW.
30. evony - August 17, 2009 8:36 PM
Forget the zombie apocalype. Please click on my link in the sidebar and help save my heaving cleavage from the shackles of this shredded dress!
31. Bath Captain - August 17, 2009 9:21 PM
This should be in the WTF photo journal
http://themostawesomepageintheuniverse.com/2009/08/wtf-a-photo-journal/
32. Vinter - August 17, 2009 11:55 PM
Did they take account of the time it would take for one to be bitten by a zombie then the time it would take for them to go lifeless, and become the living dead? because their theory seems to be based on the fact that you transform instantly, which with any infection isn't the case. so their theory is garbage, next
33. Jared - August 18, 2009 12:44 AM
wow. see, I knew if I posted something like what I did (#16) It would stir up a bunch of controversy.
really, I don't care about anything, I personnaly think everybody's a bunch of dicknuggets.
34. Jared - August 18, 2009 12:45 AM
o @ #22. I agree our mountiesdo wear stupid pants.
35. JoePerkins - August 18, 2009 6:06 AM
Wait, according to your equation:
me + shovel = zombie - head =>
me - zombie = - head - shovel =>
zombie - me = head + shovel
Therefore, if a zombie kills you, head shovel.
36. Jeff - August 18, 2009 8:38 AM
You all realize that most Canadians and Americans are the same. We all wear the same clothes, watch the same shows, listen to the same music, drink too much and yell about sports we can't play ourselves...
B.C. = California
The Prairies = Texas
Ontario = All of the Northern States
Quebec = ???
The Canadian East = ???!?!?!?!?!?
37. Dan - August 18, 2009 9:27 AM
Some idiots again bashing on Canada, sad how some ignorant yankees make the rest of the world hate the USA.
The funny part is that I dont need to argue on this topic, because i know what I do, and the degree of professionalism and innovation that is done here in Québec.
Its brain-dead zombies like you (yeah you bashing on Canada) that make us create studies like this lol
38. ShitBitch Carl - August 18, 2009 10:35 AM
@28
1. Because they are meant to destroy one another, it's fu-cking dumb. (That modesty thing was funny.)
2. I'll buy that.
4. Really. American bail outs are all self motivated. Unless you count giving all your money to China, that's just like one of those tragic crack cocaine addictions. Watching it, you're not sure if you should laugh or cry.
5. I'm a narc. I was referencing the fact that weed is a $6 billion dollar export for Canada's west coast - a significant chunk for our less rich country. Not a great joke. I see that now.
Pistols suck, blue jeans suck, crack cocaine sucks, and the gas mask, well outside of the uses in 1, they don't suck. But I'm a bit scared of those gas-mask bong hits. Interested though.
I heard John Galt lives on a hippy commune and daily plots the downfall of democracy. Nice reference.
39. ShitBitch Carl - August 18, 2009 10:37 AM
Mauritius, now there's a country.
40. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - August 18, 2009 11:35 AM
39 - "Really. American bail outs are all self motivated."
This is absolutely correct. I really wish we would stop. Then, instead of people bitching that we're arrogant and overinvolved, they could bitch that we're arrogant and don't care.
Which would mean -
*more people in Africa would die of AIDS and lack of medical care. Although their arms trade would fall off a bit and thay may save lives.
*the global economy would retract and trade would shrivel - which would eventually auto-correct and nations would just eat what they grow and use the products they make, instead of the silliness we have now.
*no would give a shit about Canada - still.
41. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - August 18, 2009 11:40 AM
^I can't type/spell to save my ass today.
42. Calabasa209 - August 18, 2009 11:40 AM
true, the militaries are meant to kill, and to kill in the most efficient, effective way technologically possible. in addition to the humantiarian missions carried out worldwide, we the masses benefit from technology created to "kill" others. its the actions and sacrifices of both our countries militaries and their families that allow you to sit there and criticize what they do. this includes every other serviceman whose job is not to shoot people, yet contribute to the war machine (i assume thats the reason why the scope of what they do is simplifed to "destroying each other")
of course its self motivated, whose interests should we have before our own? while i by no means condone, or agree with everything my country has done, to deny the things weve done to help others is asinine.
i cant understand why its still illegal.
gas mask bongs are fun.
he lived on a "hippy commune" by abiding by the laws of capitalism, by trading skills and labor for money, to be used for others' skills and labors, or the products thereof. Not simply producing and sharing regardless of ability, like hippies, like socialism, like denmark, like obamas health care plan/ canadas health care plan.
john galt plotted the downfall of those destroying capitalism and everything america stands for and was founded on- the self made man, creating ones own wealth, etc.
PS- my fav beer is molson, my hockey team is the sabres, and if obama destroys our country, my friends and i have already agreed to go north.
43. Calabasa209 - August 18, 2009 11:42 AM
oh and i love your guys' weed
44. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - August 18, 2009 11:42 AM
43- You are aware that Obama's pushing us to have the same policies as Canada, right? So moving north would not help you.
45. pance - August 18, 2009 12:30 PM
hey i am canadian and as i do agree with the whole french canadian thing about them being zombies the rest of canada kicks ass like where else can you walk down the street smokeing weed and high five a cop and nothing bad happens and if getting drunk and fighting is wrong i dont want to be rite.
46. Dan - August 18, 2009 1:32 PM
I just cant believe how stupid and ignorant people are when they bash on things they dont even know anything about... Oh right, its the internet culture, everyone knows everything but has no idea what they are talking about lol
zombies.
47. Christian - August 18, 2009 3:00 PM
@41
Actually, a lot of countries care about Canada... maybe not the people IN Canada, but our country has a shitload of renewable resources and its good quality too.
48. ShitBitch Carl - August 18, 2009 3:19 PM
I get that the armed forces have secondary positive roles. He-ll, their primary one of kill them first so they don't kill us is "good." I don't tell vets to go f-uck themselves, but not one of them has ever told me "hey young man, go join the army, with any luck, the way things are going, you might even get a real war." The armed services are ones that render themselves necessary. I really don't buy the argument that the good they do justifies their existence. Things would definitely be better if no one ever had the idea (I know it's a ridiculous idea, but so is sending thousand of people running towards one another to shoot each other in the face).
I'm not criticizing the benefits I reap because of those servicemen, I am critical of how they have needed to be achieved. I also throw things at the moon. What's up with that thing.
We all operate on self motivation. That's fine, but to present bailouts as benevolent services to the world is asinine too.
I was trying to be ironic with my hippy commune comment. The book inverts the typical well enough, and it gets confusing when I try to switch it back. Like any self -respecting person, I hate hippies and thought it funny to compare him to his antithesis.
The problem with that model of capitalism is that while Horatio Alger is next to myth (it is possible however improbably), the idea of the self made man suggests that one with skills with gain wealth and prosperity, while one without will not. But that's a fallacy, there are Paris Hiltons, and there are John Kennedy Tooles as well. It assumes we all start off equal, and that's just as untrue as the assumption that we are all equal later on.
Oh god, Molson's claimed another one. I'm from the east and don't know soo much about the western beers, but I'm sure there's something better. The Sabres are awesome. I'm s Senators guy. Why? Because I am ridiculous. One day I'll cough up the courage for the gas mask.
@ 41
Don't worry, no one thinks America cares. And the self-motivation (resources not reputation) part of what I said before means you would probably become less comfortable.
I don't know that their over involvement has really worked out all that well for the global economy. Definitely had impact though.
No one giving a sh-it is one of the best parts about Canada.
F-uck yeah come to Canada, if America get's fu-cked we're all in for something similar. But there's a sh-itload of space up here to restart the capitalist train - then we're closer to equals.
49. Droocyer - August 18, 2009 4:08 PM
Are we talking like 28 Days Later? Because that was a fictional movie. Stupid Canada.
50. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - August 18, 2009 4:39 PM
All of this because I made a reference to a John Candy movie. Jebus Monte Christo, you people are stupid.
51. Calabasa209 - August 18, 2009 5:31 PM
@ShitBitch Carl
sweet, when it all falls down, we'll swap beers and buds and talk shit on mexico
52. ShitBitch Carl - August 18, 2009 6:43 PM
@Calabasa209
I'm in.
53. Jared - August 18, 2009 10:28 PM
@Calabasa209 and shitbitch carl, can I come too?
54. geekogee - August 19, 2009 11:34 AM
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