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The Safest Place During A Zombie Apocalypse?

Back in 2015 at the American Physical Society (APS) meeting in San Antonio, researchers from Cornell University presented a talk on Statistical Mechanics involving a zombie outbreak in the United States to a standing only room. Max Brooks’ book, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, inspired the researchers to run a real-world simulation of how a zombie virus outbreak as seen in Brooks’ book would play out in the real world. “Modeling zombies takes you through a lot of the techniques used to model real diseases, albeit in a fun context,” says Alex Alemi one of the graduate students who worked on the research with fellow graduate students. The simulation showed surprising results, in the simulation the zombie outbreak does not occur in many areas at once, it starts in New York City, the more likely place any major outbreak would arise in any major US city but the big apple was used in the test.

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Capt McNeely
Jan 22, 2018
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Monsters Rise In The New Trailer For The Great Wall – Starring Matt Damon

Earlier this month we shared the massive 9-minute long trailer for director Yimou Zhang’s period monster film ‘The Great Wall’. Today, we have a new trailer to share with you, titled ‘They Rise’. The new trailer gives us a better look at the horde of monsters trying to take the wall. In the film Damon stars as British warrior in 15th century China. When Damon’s character comes across the massive wall being built. Soon he comes to understand that it is not just to keep the Mongols out. There is something more dangerous out there and it is coming in hordes. The cast for this potentially epic film includes William Defoe, Pedro Pascal, Andy Lau, Tian Jing, Eddie Peng, Numan Acar, Kenny Lin, Hanyu Zhang, Lu Han, Cheaney Chen, and Xuan Huang. The screenplay was penned by Tony GilroyCarlo Bernard, and Doug Miro, based on the story by Max Brooks and Thomas Tull. ‘The Great Wall’ is one monster movie

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 27, 2016

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The Safest Place During A Zombie Apocalypse?

Back in 2015 at the American Physical Society (APS) meeting in San Antonio, researchers from Cornell University presented a talk on Statistical Mechanics involving a zombie outbreak in the United States to a standing only room. Max Brooks’ book, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, inspired the researchers to run a real-world simulation of how a zombie virus outbreak as seen in Brooks’ book would play out in the real world. “Modeling zombies takes you through a lot of the techniques used to model real diseases, albeit in a fun context,” says Alex Alemi one of the graduate students who worked on the research with fellow graduate students. The simulation showed surprising results, in the simulation the zombie outbreak does not occur in many areas at once, it starts in New York City, the more likely place any major outbreak would arise in any major US city but the big apple was used in the test.

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Jan 22, 2018
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Monsters Rise In The New Trailer For The Great Wall – Starring Matt Damon

Earlier this month we shared the massive 9-minute long trailer for director Yimou Zhang’s period monster film ‘The Great Wall’. Today, we have a new trailer to share with you, titled ‘They Rise’. The new trailer gives us a better look at the horde of monsters trying to take the wall. In the film Damon stars as British warrior in 15th century China. When Damon’s character comes across the massive wall being built. Soon he comes to understand that it is not just to keep the Mongols out. There is something more dangerous out there and it is coming in hordes. The cast for this potentially epic film includes William Defoe, Pedro Pascal, Andy Lau, Tian Jing, Eddie Peng, Numan Acar, Kenny Lin, Hanyu Zhang, Lu Han, Cheaney Chen, and Xuan Huang. The screenplay was penned by Tony GilroyCarlo Bernard, and Doug Miro, based on the story by Max Brooks and Thomas Tull. ‘The Great Wall’ is one monster movie

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 27, 2016