How long would the power stay on in a zombie apocalypse?
Depending on the speed the apocalypse occurs, that could be hours, days or weeks. Once the power goes out, Cable TV, internet, cellphone service, landlines will last until the backup power supplies are exhausted, which could be immediately, minutes or up to 6 hours for all except landlines, which MIGHT last 24 hours.
What is zombie virus?
A few years back scientists found pithovirus sibericum, aka zombie virus, in 32,000 year old soil, buried in Siberian permafrost. Pithovirus was found in the same Siberian permafrost the oldest revived plant was found in!
What if there were no geographic boundaries to slow the zombie apocalypse?
This grim version of the model assumes that there are no geographic boundaries like oceans or mountain ranges that might slow the zombie apocalypse down. The students modified the model to see what would happen if geography separated people into three zones.
How many people are still alive 100 days after the outbreak?
The exponential increase in the number of zombies is delayed by about 10 days but then it rises exponentially as before. However, at 100 days there are still roughly 200 million uninfected left alive.
What happens when a population of humans is isolated?
When small pockets of individuals remain isolated for too long they become susceptible to the founder effect, in which the loss of genetic diversity amplifies the population’s genetic quirks. Not only would the new humans look and sound different – they could be an entirely different species.
What happens to the world’s population after the zombie pandemic?
And then the fecal matter hits the whirling cooling device. On or about day 20 the zombie population begins a meteoric exponential increase that is mirrored in a decline in the uninfected population. Most of the world’s population is wiped out over the next three weeks.