7 Ways Scientists Plan To Avert The Apocalypse

5. Zombie Apocalypse

People love discussing the ins and outs of the zombie apocalypse. We like to muse on our survival plans over a couple of beers and ponder the various ways it might be feasible, safe in the knowledge that it'll probably never actually happen.

Then the Pentagon went and published a paper on how it would deal with the eventuality of a zombie outbreak and now we're all, frankly, a bit unnerved. The document was not published on April Fools day and, as is noted in its disclaimer section, "this plan was not actually designed as a joke." Well then.

The strategy takes all kinds of zombie variations into account, including symbiant zombies, space zombies, evil magic zombies (seriously) and even vegetarian zombies.

You can read the document for yourself here.

Perhaps spurred on by this official action on zombies, a team of statisticians from Cornell University modelled the apocalypse to figure out where the safest place to hide out would be.

After using differential equations to model a fully connected population, then moving on to lattice-based models, and ending with a full US-scale simulation of an outbreak across the continental US they came to the groundbreaking conclusion that you should probably head for the mountains.