Mainly because I want you to not only survive, but thrive in the coming months. Once you've got a job lined up, and the appropriate clothing to wear, you're going to need to be in decent shape, physically, to maintain your alive status. Here's one more from Rob Kutner, with a few exercise suggestions. Just think of it as that recurring New Year's resolution you continue to make the one where you're going to "get back into the best shape of your life Now let's look at two more fun ones, to finish out the countdown post for today.
My goal with this series is to get you prepared without freaking you out too much. Many of the apocalypse websites I'm finding are pretty grim, alarmist, and scary. If we GeekPeople are going to survive, we're going to have to stay composed and retain our sense of humor. My son showed me this adorable little video a few weeks ago and it's my favorite YouTube treasure since the day I found the honey badger. Full disclosure: The song is very catchy and will become an ear worm that you're fighting the rest of the day.
Don't say you weren't warned. It should serve as a reminder that there are many ways to die, not just a zombie bite. According to one new estimate, everyone would be dead in less than a year. Physics students at Leicester University calculated that in as little as days, humans would be outnumbered a million-to-one if an infectious " zombie virus " were to strike.
After just three months, things would be looking pretty dire for humanity, with only of us left alive. Even if the last people on Earth were to somehow hold out for another nine months, it is unlikely that they would be able to repopulate the planet without being infected or eaten first.
Given the grim prognosis, it may come as a relief to learn that the research was conducted as part of an annual exercise testing students' ability to apply scientific models to hypothetical scenarios.
So, the researchers are not really expecting the world as we know it to end. Course tutor Mervyn Roy, from the university's physics and astronomy department, said he thought the topic might inspire students to engage in the complex physics required to make predictions. The team's research paper was published in the peer-reviewed journal, which is run by students to give them experience of publishing, editing and reviewing papers.
After the study had been completed, some students flagged up that, actually, humans are really good at adapting and overcoming adversity, but this was not taken into account in the original study. In response, the team reworked their calculations and published an additional report, which considered that people probably would get better at escaping and killing zombies, and could quickly have a lot of babies.
A more realistic model might assume that each zombie could find fewer human victims over time, the students wrote, because there would simply be fewer humans to find. But never fear: In a follow-up paper, the students did just that.
They extended the zombie life span to one year in order to up the challenge a bit, but also gave each human a 10 percent chance of killing a zombie each day. They also accounted for human reproduction, assuming reproductive-age women would be able to have a baby once every three years. These assumptions provided some hope for humanity. Under this model, the human population rapidly dropped off to a few hundred again. However, the zombies died off after 1, days, under this model; 10, days after the beginning of the epidemic, the human population would start to recover again, the students found.
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