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William Seger

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Thu Feb 26, 2015, 10:16 PM Feb 2015

Study Pinpoints Safest Place to Hide From Zombie Apocalypse

This information could save your life... for a couple of months:

If a zombie outbreak were to strike US shores, East Coasters should head west ASAP. That recommendation comes by way of Cornell University researchers, who have modeled the statistical mechanics of, yes, zombies and will present their findings at a meeting of the American Physical Society on March 5 in San Antonio. The researchers used a number of techniques that are used when modeling real diseases, and the abstract ends with this dismal line: "We build up to a full scale simulation of an outbreak in the United States, and discover that for 'realistic' parameters, we are largely doomed." But Phys.Org relays a glimmer of hope by way of Alex Alemi, a grad student involved in the research: He says those who want to remain safe from the undead for as long as they can should head to the northern Rockies.


http://www.newser.com/story/203200/study-pinpoints-safest-place-to-hide-from-zombies.html
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