From: "Eric Jablow" <erjablow at netacc.net>
To: "WSFA Mailing List" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] As reported on Slashdot--Sunnydale's Ecology
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 01:57:19 -0600
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

> Posted by chrisd on Friday December 06,  at 08:58PM
> from the spike-as-cellular-automata dept.
>
> Suture writes "A PhD candidate in ecology at Stanford University has done
an
> ecological analysis of humans and vampires in Sunnydale, the home of Buffy
> the Vampire Slayer. He took some initial assumptions on rates of
population
> growth, vampire feeding, etc and plugged them into a differential
equations
> model. What he got was an equilibrium human population of 36,346, and an
> vampire population of around 18, and furthermore the equilibrium is
stable.
> His conclusion was that even though the show's designers are not
ecologists,
> they managed to come up with ideas that actually made ecological sense.
> Scroll to the bottom of the page to see a pretty cool spiral graph of
human
> population vs vampire population."
>
> Look here: http://www.stanford.edu/~bthomas/vamp/vampecology.htm

Respectfully,
Eric Jablow