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A Scientific Model Of What A Zombie Apocalypse Would Look Like (And Where Not To Hide)

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The best spots for riding out a zombie apocalypse are sparsely populated areas of Montana and Nevada, which remain untouched even four months, according to a new study by researchers at Cornell University who have developed a statistical model for simulating the spread of a fictional zombie epidemic. As The WSJ reports, with real-life applications to modeling viral outbreaks, Cornell offer dire warnings for those who live in Scranton, PA - with northeastern Pennsylvania as the U.S. location most at risk of being overrun by the undead.

 

 

Highly populated areas are a bad bet in general, of course. But Alexander Alemi, a graduate student and one of the authors of the paper, notes that the most susceptible spots change over time.

Seven days after the initial outbreak, lower Manhattan, with the map’s highest population density at 299,616 people, has the highest zombie susceptibility. In fact, the New York City metro area in general is probably best avoided, as are other large cities like Los Angeles, Chicago and Dallas.

 

By 28 days out, however, the pattern has shifted, Mr. Alemi says. Instead of individual cities being at the greatest risk, areas located between multiple major cities are most vulnerable. “You start to see interactions between different cities,” he says. While northeastern Pennsylvania, identified in the paper as the country’s most vulnerable region, “doesn’t have a particularly high population itself, it is near all these other high population areas.”

 

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Also a bad bet—Bakersfield, Calif., which sits uncomfortably near San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

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The spread starts slow and accelerates fast..

Blue - clear; Red - Zombies, Green - wiped out

As you can see, for the parameters we chose, most of the United States population has been turned into zombies by the first week, while the geographic map doesn't necessarily seem all that compelling. In the early stages of the outbreak, while the population is roughly homogeneous, the zombie plague spreads out in roughly uniform circles, where the speed of the infection is tied to the local population density. Infestations on the coasts, with their higher population density, have spread farther than those near the center of the country. After several weeks, the map exhibits stronger anisotropy, as we spread over larger geographical areas and the zombie front is influenced by large inhomogeneities in population density. After four weeks, much of the United States has fallen, but it takes a very long time for the zombies to diffuse and capture the remaining portions of the United States. Even four months in, remote areas of Montana and Nevada remain zombie free.

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Another good reason to move?

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Cornell also previously released The Zombie Survival Guide...

 

Source: The Wall Street Journal

Full Cornell paper below...

Zombies

 

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Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:28 | 5922567 ebworthen
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We already have a mental zombie apocalypse affecting the majority of the population.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:29 | 5922573 videinfra
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Which might lead into an all out world war. 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:35 | 5922593 RU-GAY2
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If you own Bitcoin you can buy your way out of Zombie Apocalypse.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:42 | 5922620 Au_Ag_CuPbCu
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So this is how they are spending our finite resources at universities...modeling zombie apocalypses.  Come to think of it, it's no more wasteful than getting a PhD in economics.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:43 | 5922633 madcows
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it's what 60 grand a year buys.  who needs chemistry, physics, blah blah blah, when you can "model" a zombie outbreak.  Hire this dude, now.  he's going places.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:44 | 5922639 TruxtonSpangler
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If this model works as well as other computer models like the weather, then Im moving to Scranton.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:49 | 5922653 TruthInSunshine
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Has anyone here ever fucking walked through a big box store, watched a MSM "program" or witnessed a major college sporting event lately?

The Zombie Apocalypse already happened, FFS.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:57 | 5922687 Publicus
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I see the elites are modeling the Ebola outbreak already.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:05 | 5922723 Divine Wind
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100:1 this was research carried out using U.S. taxpayer dollars,
that it will serve as the basis for a Ph.D (no oral defense necessary),
and will likely lead to millions in follow-on funding from the National
Endowment for the Arts for an extended cinematic representation
of the research findings.

Three cheers for higher education!

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:10 | 5922742 Manthong
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I would have sworn Bakersfield had already been knee deep in Zombies for the last few years.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:19 | 5922779 TruxtonSpangler
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Publicus - dont you remember the Ebola outbreak already killed us all.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:29 | 5922822 Four chan
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zombie is code for black people when the handouts end. hence the hands outstretched and dazed look.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:42 | 5922869 manofthenorth
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I am just happy that Alaska is not even on the map !!!!!!

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:55 | 5922906 Anusocracy
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Those images look like how the US Government Zombie Apocalypse spread across America in the last 225 years.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 17:04 | 5922928 TruthInSunshine
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Real Housewives of Camden.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 17:13 | 5922950 snakeboat
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Pick a starting locale and model it yourself! http://mattbierbaum.github.io/zombies-usa/

 

Tis good to live in the West.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 18:09 | 5923101 whotookmyalias
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Gives The Streets of Bakersfield a whole new meaning and me a whole new reason to stay away.

 

(Link for those of you who have no clue what the reference is) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5P6zdlPJ34

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 18:20 | 5923139 SilverIsKing
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I was planning on going underground when the ZA hits.  Do they have a map for that?

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 18:48 | 5923223 Money Boo Boo
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it's always funny to watch americans make maps of stuff and not even oblige to show the biggest part of North America directly above them. But thanks is warranted for the myopic stoopidity of most americans becasue we in Canada don't have to suffer the intolerable mouth foaming retardation of most amercicans becasue they're too stoopid to even know Canada exists.  As for the zombie apocolyse most of the dumb fucks lucky enough to stumble north will be dead come the first frost because they have no idea what real cold looks like and that suits us all up here just fine.  Fuck off!!

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 19:29 | 5923313 Rusty Shorts
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Canuckistan is north of USA

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 20:11 | 5923427 Four chan
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america's hat.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 20:17 | 5923443 whotookmyalias
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Canada doesn't have enough guns to fight off the zombies because you let your government take them all away for your own good. You and your neighbor to the east, Australia, will be overrun so fast there is no reason to make a map.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 21:42 | 5923672 TruxtonSpangler
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Canada = small indian village. AKA Candinavia.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 02:09 | 5924213 Nage42
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Not sure about that one.

 

Lot of hunting rifles and shotguns outside of big cities (of which there are few).  Might be a case of not owning one, but knowing someone near by that owns a few, so in a civil defense scenario, there would be accessibility.

Kinda hard to know how it'd play out, places like Phillipines and Mexico have very low gun ownership/person, but there seems to be no shortage of guns for when people decided that they suddenly want one...

 

For my part, I would think that the authors of the paper could secure easy government funding if their population data was coded by race/class also (read: the "infection" could be driven bya bias towards certain criteria), thus allowing government modelers to see how race/class recitivism would play out...

Yeah... just what's needed, giving the "good enough for government work" peeps free research on how to tighten the noose.  /golfclap

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 21:56 | 5923726 MontgomeryScott
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GOD!

EVERY EDUMACATED 'Canukistanian' KNOWS that those lines on the maps are REAL and IMPENETRABLE, Eh...

Coo-lukookookoo kooloo-KOOKOO...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jm4LoOaAWI

I really enjoyed 'The Red Green' show, by the way. Great sense of humor, Eh... the only place I ever saw it was on the P(urile )B(astards and )S(hitheads) television stations, though, funded (in part) by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (and important subscribers, like you).

Canuckistan is NOT North of Usa, Japan, by the way. It's actually landlocked in the continent of South Ossetia. It's over by K'her'dick'is'tan (formerly known as Rodhams'jina) and Eastern Anglica (and most of it's landmass has now been thawed by the pesky 'global warming change' thingie).

I watch FAUX NEWS for ALL my geographical information! the Communist News Network has NOTHING on them!

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 19:39 | 5923339 Nimby
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Your the stoopid one.  Everyone knows Canada is in europe.  Sounds like your just still mad about loosing world war 2

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 20:00 | 5923396 Money Boo Boo
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+1  LOL

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 21:22 | 5923575 odatruf
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I moved here from Canada and they think I'm slow, eh.

Classic:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FEW5mh7iAI

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 19:51 | 5923363 Charming Anarchist
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It is funny because this bullshit research is pre-programming and conditioning for the sheeple.  They want Americans to believe in zombies because eventually, there will be sick, starving and desparate people roaming around.  These people will be indistinguishable from zombies and it is to the advantage of TPTB to have the sheeple believe in zombies. eBola was an attempt to provoke such chaos and disorder.  It failed.  The intent of the programmers is to lead people to kill them off ---- just like in the movies.  That is why Hollyweird bombards the sheeple with zombie movies. 

There is no need for such programming in cold Canada because there will never be people around for long anyway.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 20:11 | 5923424 BLOTTO
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Whats the use of hiding?

.

Either get to the promised land or go out with a bang.

Follow the 'butterfly'...

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 02:01 | 5924207 DipshitMiddleCl...
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There already is to some extent, but I guess they're just anticipating when the FEMA camps either fail and or get too populated they will just have to let the masses roam around.

 

It's getting scary out there.

 

I work in corporate american and the worst part is, most people just keep thinking shits just going to keep going on and on...

 

They're going to be hurtin'

 

 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 17:14 | 5922952 metastar
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The model is faulty. It does not account for pockets of well armed citizens capable of stopping the plague spreading to their region. I believe Texas and Utah are the best hopes for the survival of humanity.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 18:13 | 5923113 cheech_wizard
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Any state with the following: 1) High population of ex-military, preferably sharpshooters, or 2) High population of hunters.

When you absolutely, positively must be able to make a head shot.

 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 19:24 | 5923310 Not Too Important
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The model is not faulty. That's why Texas and Utah are 'hostile' states for Jade Helm:

'More States Added to ‘Jade Helm’ Military Exercise'

http://www.infowars.com/more-states-added-to-jade-helm-military-exercise/

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 21:30 | 5923604 MontgomeryScott
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"I believe Texas and Utah are the best hopes for the survival of humanity."

Well, gee, Skippy, SO DO THEY!

Let's see. they call it 'JADE HELM 2015' or something. Surely you've heard of it?

https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=Jade+Helm&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&...

They seem to name TEXAS and UTAH as 'hostile areas' in their seven-state 'exersize'.

With talk of Jade Helm blowing up across the Internet and the US military pushing back against what they call "conspiracy theorists," the statements below by Roy Potter, a former a 28 year veteran of the U.S. Army, ranked Lt. Colonel, who served in in various Military Police and Military Intelligence positions across the world, are a must hear as he tells listeners they had better "wake up quickly." <snip>

http://www.allnewspipeline.com/Military_Takeover_America.php

SAY: Is that a well-armed citizen in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

Yeah. 'Well-armed'. What a fucking JOKE! When that M1A1 comes rolling down the dusty road out in the flatlands, all the 'well-armed' citizens in 'pockets' are gonna do, WHAT, exactly? Add a squadron of AH51's and a couple of Blackhawks and a C130 equipped like a 'Jolly Green Giant', and those 'well-armed citizens' will throw away their pea-shooters and run like HELL.

It's funny, though. YOU(ALL) paid for ALL of it. I paid too, for a lot of years, before I finally woke the FUCK UP to the bullshit and lies.

Didja file your 1040 yet?

TEXAS, and UTAH. Oh, HELL yeah.

RIGHT.

SURE.

Uh-huh.

'OPERATION DESERT STORM' in 1991 was fucking PRACTICE for regions such as TEXAS and UTAH. WAKE UP!

24 years later,... and far more technologically advanced,... the AMERICAN WORLD ARMY will make sure that NO MISTAKES are MADE THIS TIME. Heat signatures? NO PROBLEM... LIGHT signatures? NO PROBLEM... SOUNDS of RESPIRATION? NO PROBLEM...

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 23:28 | 5924002 Beam Me Up Scotty
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Sounds so easy, but yet we can't wipe the 30k ISIS warriors off the planet.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 23:33 | 5924021 A Nanny Moose
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Problem: Zombies need brains to survive.

Soution: Trapping zombies in DC or any State capitol will simply cause them to starve.

Fortunately the eastern flank of the Sierra Nevadas is off the map.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 17:54 | 5923052 HardAssets
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Giving the grad student the benefit of the doubt, I substitute 'major epidemic' for 'zombie'. That said, you can tell they are a city boy since they can't seem to imagine any place outside of a town or city.

I do like Missoula, MT however. College town with lots of outdoor activities. And one of my favorite beer breweries doing German style brews is located there.

Go Grizzlies !

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 19:15 | 5923290 trulz4lulz
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I'm gunning for my Masters in Cinematic Science Fiction. Its only 75k per year at  Harvard, but they tell me I can be anything once I graduate.

 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 19:52 | 5923376 Charming Anarchist
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Hollyweird does a much better job pre-programming the sheeple than any scientist ever will. 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:05 | 5922725 Stuck on Zero
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Anyone ever spend time in Hollywood?  It's already a zombie apocalypse.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 18:45 | 5923212 Fun Facts
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Zombie Apocalypse = EBT system going down for more than 12 hours

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 20:18 | 5923448 whotookmyalias
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Hoo boy, you hit the nail on the head with that one.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:09 | 5922737 walküre
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ON topic

cool animation charting the increase in prison population over 40 years

http://i.imgur.com/sNJ7TVI.gif

The prisons are run by corporations. It is profitable to incarcerate more and more people. Judges and attorneys are also shareholders in the corp.

Who owns FEMA camps? Once they get sold to Blackstone, the party can get started

 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:20 | 5922785 TruxtonSpangler
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This is what Common Core is all about. It weeds out the smart people and leaves the rest ready for the prison industrial complex. Microsoft is heavily invested in Common Core. Bill Gates is heavily invested in Corrections Corporation of America. Coincidence?

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 19:32 | 5923330 Rusty Shorts
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Have you noticed these new schools they are building? same blue prints as prisons...

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 23:46 | 5924045 A Nanny Moose
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Again...the purpose of Pewblik Skewlz. I say, bring your shit to mah howse! Let's take the gloves off

...bytchez!

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:59 | 5922918 exi1ed0ne
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Other fun zombie maps to play with are http://www.mapofthedead.com/map.html and my favorite http://mattbierbaum.github.io/zombies-usa/

 

 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:57 | 5922688 Oldwood
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This is the aftermath

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:05 | 5922720 cnmcdee
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Combat Arms a completely free game has a sub-battle called 'Cabin Fever' - where this cabin is surrounded by poisonous gas and incoming zombies.  It is so fun!!  By level 10 of 20 on hard it's bascially a frantic shoot em up - I recommend at least a couple hours training on the simulator before the real thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdVoe8nKa4c

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:53 | 5922796 Creepy A. Cracker
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Not to worry.  Global Warming® (since rebranded Climate Change®, since rebranded CO2 Pollution®, since rebranded Climate Disruption®) will kill the zombies first.

DRIVE SUVs MORE!!!!

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:07 | 5922707 Lore
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No offense to ZH, but this panders to the tabloid pop culture audience.  We have more important things to think about.  A more credible and useful study would attempt to measure the geographical and demographic patterns of psychopathy and its degenerative effect on societies. 

Political Ponerology:  A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:36 | 5922854 Herd Redirectio...
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Love me some ponerology!  Guess what, folks, there may be a genetic component to sociopathy/aka evil...

Turns out it is basically heritable from the mother's side. 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:39 | 5922860 Oldwood
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did you know my mother?

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 20:21 | 5923457 whotookmyalias
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I don't know about ZH (like can an entire website be offended??), but I'm fucking offended by your comment.  Normally when someone starts off with no offense, they turn around and shit on the person they are talking to and you sir are no exception.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:54 | 5922904 Creepy A. Cracker
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Oh... the poor Obama kids.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 17:06 | 5922933 Jethro
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Don't pity them. They'll know how to pull the arms off droids during a rampage...assuming they inherit Wookie genes. Might be a useful skill in the future workplace as it's Keynesian.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 17:13 | 5922949 Anusocracy
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Evil is where innate bestial behaviors dominate any innate civilized behaviors.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 18:13 | 5923107 Lore
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Evil is how we evaluate behaviour that hurts others, or behaviour without conscience. Psychopaths have malformed brains that prevent them from feeling. It is predominantly but not exclusively genetic, a kind of deviant, degenerate, predatory subspecies. Some go through their lives doing heinous things to others without acknowledging even to themselves what they are. They're cunning role players, manipulators and rationalizers, innate con men, usually kinky, worshipping power, incapable of feeling guilt, incapable of taking responsibility.

Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:50 | 5922891 BeaverCream
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I think it's spelled "pwnerology"...hahah.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 17:24 | 5922966 Jethro
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That looks pretty fascinating. I'll have to order that book! Thanks!

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 17:35 | 5923007 walküre
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Mind altering pharmaceuticals create monsters.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 18:36 | 5923154 Lore
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True. Note all the false flag 'terrors' involving patients given psychotropic drugs. See MKUltra. Naive audiences are encouraged to believe that such things occur spontaneously, but mind control is an advanced field.  

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 19:28 | 5923317 Not Too Important
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See MKNAOMI.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 19:29 | 5923323 Not Too Important
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Actually, the zombie study and Ponerology go hand in hand in the US.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 18:30 | 5923170 freedogger
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re "it already happened" 

For damn sure it has, look at all the zombies bumping into shit while staring at their iCrap.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:06 | 5922726 booboo
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"If this model works as well as other computer models like the weather, then Im moving to Scranton."

and then announce a war on sex, you should be set.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:30 | 5922825 tarabel
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Love it. Point for you.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 17:42 | 5923029 will ling
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4 out 5 on  the tit of some sort. maybe you wanna rethink that.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 18:33 | 5923174 Freddie
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Scranton, PA The racial makeup of the city was 84.11% White, 5.45% African American, 0.23% Native American, 2.98% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 4.69% from other races, and 2.49% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race make up 9.90% of the population.

Considering PA has the largest number of licensed hunters in the USA with over 1 million - I think Scranton will fare better than most.

Scranton is pretty far from major cities and close to far NW NJ.   The zombies will never make it through thouse woods in NJ coming from NYC and NE NJ.  Those woods also have bears.  Anything from Philly or Binghampton NY will never make it to Scranton either.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 19:44 | 5923357 HardAssets
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Well, the ebola scare meme didn't work.
Notice how you never hear about it now ?
So maybe they think zombies will work better ?

I'm waiting for them to pull the alien invasion trick.

That oughta have some outrageous special effects.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:43 | 5922634 TruxtonSpangler
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Isolated spots would be less effected. How profound.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:55 | 5922675 NoDebt
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We used to call it common sense.  Now it requires a PhD to be profound.  Youknow somebody got their doctorate for this bullshit.

Now here's my non-PhD attempt at profundity:  Scranton, PA wouldn't be the least bit affected.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:13 | 5922751 GoldenGeezer
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I only have one question about this model\paper....How much did this stupid fucking thing cost us?

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:42 | 5922872 Oldwood
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Like all other newly devised "productive" efforts we simply strive to prove the obvious so as to give credibility to their claims that common sense would tell us are absolute bullshit.

The sun rises and therefore proving the existence of man made global warming.

And they call it science.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:54 | 5922678 kaiserhoff
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I've tried to tell people for years.

Don't inhale east of the Mississippi.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:45 | 5922642 Herd Redirectio...
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Most people ALREADY ARE unthinking zombies.  I can't be th e only one who sees that, surely.

 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:14 | 5922754 Chupacabra-322
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Ever walk into an iStore or seen the over night camp outs for the iShit products. Yea, we've been balls deep in the Zombie Apocalypse for quite sometime now.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:27 | 5922809 Lore
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Don't blame the culture. Blame the Culture Creators.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:46 | 5922885 Oldwood
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Hey, predators eat because they can. If we behave a sheep, can we really blame those who would take advantage of it. If theories of evolution hold true, eventually the sheep would become smart enough to at least balance the intelligence of the wolves. But if the wolves could figure out how to motivate the smart sheep into hiding behind the stupid, a sustainable paradigm could exist that would never change. You see, not all sheep are equal.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:59 | 5922913 Lore
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Fair point, but not good enough. From an early age, people are being systematically socialized in a way that handicaps their ability to function as whole human beings. The family is being destroyed; morality is undermined; essential survival skills are lost.  Look at the living conditions in tenements.  At least an animal knows to keep its nest clean!  The middle class is being destroyed in order to build, perpetuate and reinforce conditions of dependence under the guise of "interdependence."  See Agenda 21 and Oligarchical Collectivism.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 18:52 | 5923235 Oldwood
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The motivation of all who would lead is to simultaneously inspire their followers through fear AND dependency. They are simply more efficient at it than ever before, but the same as it ever was. Our challenge is to use our minds, the one tool we are all empowered with, to reason and resolve what is in our TRUE best interests. It is concealed before our very eyes with a layer of delusion that tells us there is always an easier way, a safer way to liberty and independence. It is ALWAYS easier to take their path of dependence, be it tapped onto the water main, a quick drive to the super market, an online purchase. What we refuse, is to deny that these conveniences ARE the surrender of our liberty. The key to their dominance is this denial, our clinging to the belief we can have it all....but we can't. The problem with compromise is that there is never a clear line to cross. The act of compromise seeks to blur that line, ultimately to oblivion. We have lost all context. We can read what the founders envisioned but it was a different time and now few believe in it simply because it is perceived as old and irrelevant.Truths are always truths irrespective of time. We will see these truths become apparent once again.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 01:15 | 5924165 Lore
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True enough. Life is too short - important lessons are forgotten between generations - and deprogramming takes SUSTAINED EFFORT.  And as you indicated, some personality types are better suited / less innately sheeplish.  Myers-Briggs testing is useful in that regard.  Most people here are probably close to INTJ or INTP, a minority of the population. 

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 02:05 | 5924208 DipshitMiddleCl...
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Indeed, in fact most "traders" are INTJ/INTP/ISJT's from what I understand and many finanical types read this site.

 

 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 17:55 | 5923069 amadeus39
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Blame? Please, I'm so tired of so many wanting to blame someone or some thing. Blames got nothing to do with it. No more scapegoats. Genuine causes would be appreciated.

 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:44 | 5922638 centerline
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Just remember to buy the flash drive attachment for your assault rifle.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:03 | 5922717 Kirk2NCC1701
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No I'm not.

But I can be happy, cheerful or jolly on occasion.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:10 | 5922743 GoldenGeezer
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You don't have to be the fastest...you just have to be faster than the slowest.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 22:50 | 5923899 -.-
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"Espylacopa Eibmoz fo tuo yaw ruoy yub nac uoy nioctiB nwo uoy fi..."

 

I have tested, analyzed, and noted the results of the Hick's POS Theorem: it works.

Take the abovementioned garbage, play it backwards, and...well, it actually sounds better (or more convincing in this particular case). 

 

Thanks Cornell!

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:39 | 5922595 Deathrips
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Most zombies are in washington dc.....leading the retard charge!

Two zombies were eating a clown.
First zombie says to the second one, 'do you taste something funny'?

RIPS

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:30 | 5922826 Lore
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Fools are legion, but more dangerous are the psychopaths who manipulate them.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:39 | 5922859 Mr Pink
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Scranton?? Even if you live on a secluded beet farm?

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:53 | 5922898 sleigher
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Well they list Bakersfield, CA and that place is already full of zombies.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 17:24 | 5922969 Greenskeeper_Carl
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pretty sure dwight shrute will be just fine

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:47 | 5922651 gramps
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Slow news day huh. No Russian nuclear holocaust FUD to spread?

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:13 | 5922690 Seek_Truth
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This, like "programming" on TV and other MSM media, is meant to mirror a real world event TPTB have planned.

While it may be an actual virus, it is more likely that the "Zombies" will be comprised of drug addicted ne'er do wells and those who have been cut off of the gubmint dole- EBT, welfare, disabilty, etc.

In that case, the model is quite innacurate, and unlike a virus outbreak, there will be a cure that is widely available- lead.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:14 | 5922756 TheReplacement
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That simply cannot be.  The PHD film did not list lead or guns or anything like that as a weapon.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 19:54 | 5923382 HardAssets
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Nope.

That stuff's not allowed on campus.

So it doesn't exist.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 18:37 | 5923192 Freddie
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Zombies will not have a good time in PA considering it has 1 million licensed hunters.  Scranton is 85% white and probably pretty heavily armed.   Zombies will not get close to Scranton.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 17:09 | 5922939 Bangin7GramRocks
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The rise of the Bath Salt army!

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 17:30 | 5922988 claytonmoore50
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Find an island in a lake, zombies can't swim...

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 03:08 | 5924260 e_goldstein
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but they can walk on the bottom of the lake, and if said lake ever freezes...

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 22:28 | 5923846 pupton
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Obama's zombie voters are far too lazy to spread out across the country to feast on red state Americans.  They would just riot in their ghettos and eat each other until there was nothing left.  The ones that survived the initial looting and pillaging would sit around waiting for the government to come save them, all while blaming "whitey."

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 00:16 | 5924099 Tarzan
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That's what they want us to believe, that zombies are real and we're going to save you from them.  When the killing begins they'll have most sufficiantly brainwashed into thinking population control is for our own good - look away, those dead guys in the street were just zombies using up your rations!  It's for the children ya know.....

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:34 | 5922589 p00k1e
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The Lame Stream Media (giggle, giggle) has been telling us that for years now.   

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:43 | 5922874 Lore
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PROCEDURE GREEK_DEFAULT

FOR DATE:= [TODAY]

PRINT "GREECE COULD DEFAULT [TODAY]"

RUN PROCEDURE CREATE_MORE_DEBT

IF RUSSIA_BAILOUT="YES" THEN END

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:32 | 5922585 Silky Johnson
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Uhm.......zombies aren't real, right?

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:34 | 5922590 NoTTD
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Compared to what?

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:49 | 5922662 Dr. Engali
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Go shop at a Walmart and then ask that question again.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:50 | 5922666 101 years and c...
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if a person dies, which means the heart stops pumping, wouldnt all the blood settle into the feet/lower legs?  thus making it very hard for a zombie to walk? just saying.  

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 18:29 | 5923166 Dave Thomas
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At least Zombies feed themselves, and have an untiring work ethic. Go to any Greyhound bus terminal in the middle of any city and you'd be welcoming the Zombies with open arms!

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 19:02 | 5923262 Oldwood
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WRONG!

Zombies feed on the living productive elements. They seek to feed like all eaters do, but do not seek production to do so, but instead seek to eat those who produce. They do not eat their own....ever, as that flesh is not of the productive, and their tastiest morsel is the brain, the most productive part.

Our government is the center of all infection as it is propagating this zombie mentality. Class warfare, entitlement that tells the infected that they no longer need work for food or reward as it can be taken, by force if necessary, to sustain their needs, their undying needs that will NEVER be satiated by theft or any other redistribution. No they will eat without thought of production until their flesh rots from its bones. For the infected, to do anything but would be considered unnatural, and there has never been a cure for zombies. It is the most fatal of all infections...100% mortality rate for anyone who would come near.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 19:52 | 5923377 Cloud9.5
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Turn the lights out and 90% of us will be the walking dead.  

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:33 | 5922587 taketheredpill
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Movin to Montana soon...

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:39 | 5922612 NoTTD
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No need to bring dental floss...

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:42 | 5922629 Headbanger
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Yeah but don't forget those heavy-duty Zircon-encrusted tweezers DUDE!

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:33 | 5922588 NoTTD
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Strongly recommend "World War Z".   Novel, not the movie.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:43 | 5922627 cossack55
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Loved the movie. Best zombie fleck (typo, I wonder if I was thinking Fleckenstein or Flake) ever, IMHO that is.  Will hit the book next.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:44 | 5922635 Headbanger
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Naaahhh!!

Zombileland!!

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:48 | 5922649 Thirst Mutilator
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We're living 'WWZ[ion]'... The script & screenplay suck... Only a jew in Hollyweird thinks it's amusing...

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:13 | 5922752 negative rates
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There are no amusing jews in hollywood.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 21:35 | 5923650 Lore
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The symbolism of that lousy movie is a great big inside joke. Blech.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:49 | 5922658 Jethro
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WWZ just made me laugh. It wasn't that the theme of zombies overtaking the world gave me pause, but rather that the UN was somehow useful! LOL....

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:51 | 5922894 Gavrikon
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Book was multiculti crap.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:35 | 5922592 papa_lazarou
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Good job student researchers, this is really useful information. Wouldn't it be great if all we had to worry about were zombie hordes? How simple life would be.

The reality of our modern world is a lot scarier than this fantasy bullshit.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:41 | 5922623 madcows
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he'll probably make millions designing the next zombie app.  it's a sad reality, i know.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:35 | 5922594 The Joker
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<--   Higher education

<--  "higher" education

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:38 | 5922603 NoTTD
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Your tax dollars at work.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:36 | 5922598 the6thBook
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So NYC is bad, but Scranton is worse???  What is wrong with WSJ?

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:45 | 5922643 Headbanger
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Cause Scraaaaton is where da New Yawkas gonna go.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:34 | 5922844 Big Corked Boots
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You ever been to Scranton?

Nobody, nobody wants to go to Scranton.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 17:01 | 5922922 Headbanger
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Yes I have

And I've seen a LOT worse!

 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 18:42 | 5923202 Freddie
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Over 1 million licensed hunters in PA. New Yawkers will have to get through N NJ too.  Lots of forests and hills plus bears and armed people in those NW NJ hills.   I doubt anyone from NYC will make it to Scranton.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 17:47 | 5923040 Kirk2NCC1701
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Biden is from Scranton PA. 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 21:45 | 5923677 TruxtonSpangler
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To Biden is to plagiarise.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:36 | 5922599 BrokusDickusMaximus
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Treadmill in front of windows and doors outside, game, set, match!

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:36 | 5922600 JRobby
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Zombie banks have been operating for close to 7 years now.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:40 | 5922618 madcows
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beat me to it...

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 00:16 | 5924098 MEAN BUSINESS
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Zombie Bank Death Squad - What You Gonna Do?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjPJ45kmDz8

"Did you notice? The parting of the rich and poor by derivative Moses?...

CLASSIC!

 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:00 | 5922702 mt paul
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zombie world leaders

since the beginning of mankind

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 03:12 | 5924262 e_goldstein
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Nah, dems da lizard people.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:38 | 5922606 givenoquarter
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Webster's also defines a zombie as:

 "will-less and speechless human in the West Indies capable only of automatic movement who is held to have died and been supernaturally reanimated."

 

So, if we simply remove the West Indies locale and then assume that "reanimated" means social programs and polictical correctness which allows people that otherwise cannot survive in modern, productive, self-sufficient, sovereign-citizen type existence, YES I would say Zombies are extremely real.

They infect otherwise healthy individuals by draining their life's blood and eventually turning them into hopeless zombies as well... given enough time.  

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:38 | 5922607 OilCaptain
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Maybe they should focus their modeling expertise on the outcomes of economic contagion following a Grexit or, you know, something useful.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:43 | 5922622 mt paul
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imagine economic zombiefacation 

would look the same... 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:38 | 5922608 toddf
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I am a necrophiliac - so bring on the zombies bitchez!!!!  They will all be running from my horny shit.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:01 | 5922704 Winston Churchill
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All's fine until some rotten cunt splits on you.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:06 | 5922727 Shitgum Suicide
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Hey hey hey hey hey heeeeeeyyyyuh!

I'm eating here!!!

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 16:27 | 5922811 tarabel
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Cold Ethel.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:38 | 5922611 mt paul
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zombies

are attracted to fiat currency...

 

live free

or die..

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