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Just because you can do the maths….
Vampires are an impossibility it seems.
Efthimiou’s debunking logic: 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.
If mortality rates were taken into consideration, the population would disappear much faster. Even an unrealistically high reproduction rate couldn’t counteract this effect.
“In the long run, humans cannot survive under these conditions, even if our population were doubling each month,” Efthimiou said. “And doubling is clearly way beyond the human capacity of reproduction.”
Of course, this assumes several things 1) a low vampire mortality rate and 2) that a vampire creates a new vampire every month. What would have been a more interesting study is exactly what conditions would lead to a stable vampire population rather than ‘I have created an impossible situation, therefore it cannot exist’.
Suure, it’s silly, but it might as well be done right.
