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- theblooms, on 10/12/2007, -4/+112Oh, I knew they already existed, but what this research fails to recognize is that Blade almost singlehandedly keeps those nasty ***** in check. I guess his mathematics didn't account for this.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+71Yeah, up until now they've only been _physically_ and _biologically_ impossible.
- scooterbaga, on 10/12/2007, -6/+65Isn't the "rule", you have to drink the vampire's blood to become a vampire? Not simply being bitten as the article states.
Stupid researcher. - Phyltre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+47Well, you've got the first two--but in the movies, don't vampires usually only convert people they would want to be vampires, and kill the rest of their victims? It wouldn't make much sense (especially to the vampires themselves) to run around exponentially creating competition.
Heck, by that logic, I'd have to say that missionary/convertive religions can't exist because if they did, wouldn't everyone already belong to a religion already? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+52Moments after this report was released, hundreds of goths suddenly melted.
- guytoronto, on 10/26/2007, -6/+47Which is why your girlfriend sleeps at my place.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+38Hmm...I wonder how much of a grant he got to research this.
- Antialias, on 10/26/2007, -3/+33The reason there aren't more vampires than humans is because they are fighting a war with the werewolves, and many are killed off. DUH!!!
- UtopianComplex, on 10/12/2007, -4/+32yeah... you do have to drink their blood.
ITS OK EVERYONE THE STUDY IS BOGUS VAMPIRES STILL EXIST - byp494, on 10/26/2007, -4/+33Umm... years ago didn't scientists use math to 'prove' a man couldn't run a 4 minute mile?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28Oh, Flanders, I was doing my taxes when I came up with a little proof that vampires don't exist.
Hmm... Let's see here.. Oh my, well maybe he forgot to carry the... no, it's right. Well, there's only one thing to do about this! *burns paper* - mbrutsch, on 10/12/2007, -4/+29"If your blood is not drained before you drink the vampire's blood, you will become a mindless slave of the vampire. (I forget what they call them.)"
Neo-cons. - there4iam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24WARNING: Persons denying the existence of vampires may be vampires themselves.
- guytoronto, on 10/26/2007, -3/+27Breaking the sound barrier was also impossible.
Oh, and bumblebees couldn't fly either. - bostonyankee, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. Perhaps the researcher is the vampire.
- objectnull, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Modern day vampires get all their nourishment from blood banks and spend the rest of the day watching funny clips on youtube.
- Marfanity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16If you go by the Anne Rice rules, you have to drink the vampire's blood before becoming a vampire yourself. If you go by the White Wolf rules, a vampire must drink most of your blood and then replace it with his own before you will turn into a vampire. If your blood is not drained before you drink the vampire's blood, you will become a mindless slave of the vampire. (I forget what they call them.)
Now, if you go by the traditional Dracula rules, all you have to do is get bitten, and you become one of them. Or, according the the retarded Blade rules, vampires can still sexually reproduce, so you can be born a vampire (or half-vampire.) - babayada, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Yeah, sure. That's what they *want* you to think.
Has anybody considered the possibility that *this guy* might be a vampire? Eh? Eh? He's just trying to lull everyone into a false sense of security so he and his bloodthirsty brethren can feed upon us human cattle while we remain blissfully unaware of this unholy, undead threat.
Beware the Whamphyr! Nosferatu!!! - smacg, on 10/26/2007, -0/+13Scientists also used math to prove that bumblebees can't fly.
Then they figured out that their understanding of aerodynamics was imperfect and that bumblebees could, mathematically speaking, fly, and all was well. The years between were tough on bumblebees, though, having to crawl from flower to flower... - totorototoro, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14so basically he proved we are all vampires?
- bostonyankee, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Yes. You whine too much.
- smartsingh24, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14yeah and clearly they didn't take into consideration vampire slayers and such. And the fact that vampires are you know, not real.
- mikekeen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Are you retarded?
- pkulak, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Has this guy ever seen Interview with a Vampire? Everyone knows that not every person a vampire bites is turned into another vampire. Don't you have to drink a vamp's blood? Sheesh.
- k0sty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10thank goodness... now i can put away all of the garlic and sleep at night
- CaseyUCF, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10It probably took him a whole 3 minutes to calculate this, moron.
- Popdmb, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12So you're saying the count from Sesame Street isn't a real vampire? He's just a normal person lik you and me?
- clairmont, on 10/26/2007, -3/+12I still won't remove the garlic wreath from my bed.
- bmcnally, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11How much did he get paid to do this "research"? Logarithmic growth equations are solved by middle schoolers (think division of bacteria) for pete's sake.
Also, vampires are able to drink any type of blood, not just human, and can sleep for millenia. Factor in the death rates during the Middle Ages, and the vampire population can be held in check. - mathmanjeffy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Yes, but there was real math involved in those calculations at least. Here is his:
FTA: "On Jan 1, 1600, the human population was 536,870,911. If the first vampire came into existence that day and bit one person a month, there would have been two vampires by Feb. 1, 1600. A month later there would have been four, and so on. In just two-and-a-half years the original human population would all have become vampires with nobody left to feed on."
This doesn't prove that Vampires can't exist, just that there can't be that many of them that survive the transformation process. Now, I'm not saying I believe they exist, just that pure math isn't the right angle to approach it from. - temjeito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Wow, this guy is so smart! This proof also explains why we all died of AIDS 15 years ago!
- jjfoley, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11To think that people get paid to research things like this...
- DjOverEZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Hey scientists, last time I checked cancer still existed!
- bostonyankee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Your psychotherapist might have another explanation for you, but you can go with this one if it helps you sleep.
- cualcrees, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Now THAT explains why i like to sleep in coffins and wear a cape!
- stevievep, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"Scientist a Dumbass", Vampire says.
- TheDrunkMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8He probably didn't get paid all that much- this probably took him at most one day to do. It wasn't a completely serious project. In fact, I would guess that he did it in his spare time.
- Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7and slayers keep them in check
killing off the draculas to keep the vamp population low
now why is the researcher wasting his time on the undead myths - mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Vampires arent real? Then what are these hot women sucking out the....
oh wait... - DrSkrud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5That's the myth I know, too. It wouldn't make sense for vampires for turn *every* victim into a vampire, because that would wipe out their food supply.
- Zjm7891, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Well now we all know where our Tution here at UCF goes!
- DjOverEZ, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Vampire math equation solved...on to zombies!
- bshniper, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Are we talking "buffyverse"?
Nosferatu had the coolest vampires. And in that world, getting bitten did indeed make you a vampire. But he waited decades between making vampires, and was killed by sunlight. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Buried as shameless plagiarism.
Andrzej Sapkowski came up with exactly the same explanation a couple of decades ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrzej_Sapkowski - archlich, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4and do math better than the guy in the article =)
- apetrie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4urbandistrict: Guess what? Everything derived from Ancient Fiction DOES EXIST in some sense. For the most part, mythological creatures are based on something. There is a rare condition that produces cyclopses in normally two-eyed animals called syno-something I can't remember. Dragons are easily explainable by the presence of dinosaur bones, how would someone having no knowledge of dinosaurs know, when confronted with a skeleton, that these creatures have long been extinct?
Those are just examples, and I'm sure some creatures are entirely made up, but chances are the more persistent and wide spread myths are based in some fact.
I'm not saying vampires exist of course, just that chances are the idea of them was not plucked from thin air. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Tell that to the two holes in my neck!
- Cylus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Oh thank you Mr. Physics Professor! Your deadly maths have vanquished the vampire threat! Huzzah!
Perhaps next he'll set off to slay Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy with the massive power of his mathematical e-peen.
Give me a break. People are perfectly aware that most vampire myths are just that: MYTHS. The professor claims that so many people believe in vampires that "the percentages are at dangerously high level." Based on what? Cite me a survey of some kind. Establish a need for your silly research beyond finding a whole new way to sound like a self important jerk at Frank from Accounting's annual Haloween party. :P
I can see it now. "Nice costume Bob, but you know that Vampires are mathematically impossible, blah blah blah..." - gkavalec, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Ok wait. Am I the only one to notice that it's a guy named Costas Efthimiou who's trying to "prove" that vampires don't exist? Does he by any chance teach a night class?
- Humptydank, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This is why, as public holidays go, I really hate Halloween even more than the constant harangues that are Christmas or Mother's Day.
It's that every institution, public or private, media outlet, or seemingly anything we are forced to interact with throughout our day feels it necessary to officially release their own delightful take on the tradition, and it usually ends up incredibly retarded. Corona has to trot out their lime-stabbing commercial yet again. We get to watch Food TV hosts make eyeball soup while sweating into greasepaint. "Scientists" disprove vampires.
Can't we go back to the Halloween that just involved kids, and my cross town bus driver dressed like Elvis? Please?
Okay, screed over. -
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