Vampires and Humans Could Never Coexist, Because Math

Vampires: They’re just like us! That is, if you don’t count the crippling allergy to sunlight or the questionable liquid diet. Films like What We Do in the Shadows (2014) have also shown us that, as neighbors, they might not be all that bad. But according to a recent article on Atlas Obscura, there are some in academia who believe that a shared existence with vampires would be short-lived, and they’ve done the math to prove it.

In one 1982 paper quoted by Atlas Obscura from an issue of the RAIRO journal, the authors classified the different types of vampires, then used equations such as “bloodsucking rate per vampire at time” to conclude that the “resource” of humans would diminish as the vampire population increases (vampire bites human, human becomes vampire).

Source: Mental Floss