Re: Vampire dialogue again
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 30, 2001, 0:28 |
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John Cowan wrote:
> But even if vampirism is not contagious, it is difficult to impossible
> to maintain if victims are simply killed, as in Anne Rice. Though
> the growth is no longer exponential, it is still huge -- human beings
> don't make good food animals, as they breed very slowly.
Not necessarily, if Vampires are a small enough minority, humans could
be adequate food sources, at least, if Vampires were nomadic. If blood
isn't their *only* food source, they could even conceivably live a
settled life.
> after a mathematically-minded Sime (vampire) who first worked out the
> inevitability of extirpation as the Sime population rises.
Are they immortal? If not, couldn't they simply use an equivalent of
birth control to keep their population stable?
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