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Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/7D36076E-7FCF-46EC-B6FA-B084BC2CD9FB/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/dbunder/">dbunder</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=69183375" title="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=69183375">profile.myspace.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/tilly+and+the+wall/" rel="tag">tilly and the wall</a></div>http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=69183375Fri, 11 May 2007 13:46:29 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/8FBFB674-4BCE-4AAF-A652-15E786D8698B/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/dbunder/">dbunder</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> Umm, yeah. <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.livescience.com/othernews/061025_vampire_debunk.html" title="http://www.livescience.com/othernews/061025_vampire_debunk.html">www.livescience.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/dbunder/512/8F9EB89C-3C1E-4CC0-9C6E-0301FEFE5BCC.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV class="topheadline">Vampires a Mathematical Impossibility, Scientist Says</DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P class="style1">A researcher has come up with some simple math that sucks the life out of the <A href="http://www.livescience.com/othernews/060414_dracula.html">vampire myth</A>, proving that these highly popular creatures can't exist. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P class="style1">University of Central Florida physics professor Costas Efthimiou's work debunks <A href="http://www.livescience.com/urbanlegends/">pseudoscientific ideas</A>, such as vampires and zombies, in an attempt to enhance public literacy. Not only does the public believe in such topics, but the percentages are at dangerously high level, Efthimiou told <EM>LiveScience</EM>.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P class="style1">Legend has it that <A href="http://www.livescience.com/othernews/060414_dracula.html">vampires</A> feed on human blood and once bitten a person turns into a vampire and starts feasting on the blood of others.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P class="style1">Efthimiou's debunking logic: On Jan 1, 1600, the <A href="http://www.livescience.com/othernews/060224_world_population.html">human population</A> 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. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P class="style1">If mortality rates were taken into consideration, the population would disappear much faster. Even an unrealistically high <A href="http://www.livescience.com/reproduction/">reproduction</A> rate couldn't counteract this effect. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P class="style1">"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 <A href="http://www.livescience.com/othernews/060217_partners.html">human capacity</A> of reproduction."</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P class="style1">So <A href="http://www.livescience.com/includes/iab.html?url=http://www.livescience.com/othernews/top10_scary_creatures.html">whatever you think you see</A> prowling around on Oct. 31, it most certainly won't turn you into a vampire.</P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/vampires/" rel="tag">vampires</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/science/" rel="tag">science</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/math/" rel="tag">math</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/mathematics/" rel="tag">mathematics</a></div>http://www.livescience.com/othernews/061025_vampire_debunk.htmlThu, 26 Oct 2006 18:50:06 GMT