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manygrumpypants
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final body count with the latest info from the blu ray, it sounds like 1.4 million got out of Manhattan with a population of 1.6 million. Add in another ~100k tourists, and it seems about 300,000 people died in the LSA attack.
For tourists, I took 40 million/year to new york, divided by 5 to get 8 million to Manhattan (one of 5 boroughs), divided by 52 weeks (each stays a week) to get a wild guess of 153,000, just rounded off to 100k.
Has there been any mention of the number of casualties?
Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 5:23 pm
geezyj
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for that many people who have died, there sure weren't enough dead bodies on the street..
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 11:20 am
lazarusHART
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geezyj wrote:
for that many people who have died, there sure weren't enough dead bodies on the street..
They were too busy being digested or blowin up like balloons
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Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 12:43 pm
Anteros
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lazarusHART wrote:
geezyj wrote:
for that many people who have died, there sure weren't enough dead bodies on the street..
They were too busy being digested or blowin up like balloons
I had to log in for the first time in ages just to LOL at that statement.
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Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 4:15 am
cm101388
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yeah that will happen to you if you got bitten by a dog-sized parasite
ruunnnn!!!!!!
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Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 2:37 pm
punk_rocker94
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what would happen if you did get bitten by a dog sized parasite?
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 4:11 pm
xsarax
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punk_rocker94 wrote:
what would happen if you did get bitten by a dog sized parasite?
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lazarusHART wrote:
They were too busy being digested or blowin up like balloons
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 4:33 pm
K1Ng5p4d3
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Re: final body count
manygrumpypants wrote:
with the latest info from the blu ray, it sounds like 1.4 million got out of Manhattan with a population of 1.6 million. Add in another ~100k tourists, and it seems about 300,000 people died in the LSA attack.
For tourists, I took 40 million/year to new york, divided by 5 to get 8 million to Manhattan (one of 5 boroughs), divided by 52 weeks (each stays a week) to get a wild guess of 153,000, just rounded off to 100k.
Has there been any mention of the number of casualties?
Now, you also got to factor in that tourists are NOT gonna go enjoy their stay in the Bronx, Queens, or Brooklyn. Staten Island n Manhattan are the biggest attraction points for places to stay for tourists (with the exception of Journal Square--NYC residents, U know what im talkin about here,lol), so you could pretty much rule out at 3 boroughs pretty much right there, unless of course, you consider the newest crack addict exhibit or the Junkie Monument tourist attractions, lol. Also, you gotta factor in that New Years and Christmas make up for probably about a 1/3 of that 40 million tourists. So ill agree with the statement that was made saying that 300,000 casualties is probably too big of a number for this one attack.
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Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 11:08 pm
Euchre
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Interesting thing to me about this total death toll is that I made a reference in another thread on here called ARG Mortuary to the idea that most of Manhattan was dead. That was on May 4th, so I doubt someone at Paramount read my post and wanted to counter it with a much rosier estimate. The fact that quantitative info was supplied thereafter on the Blu-Ray disc is pretty funny. I'll go revise the numbers in a subsequent post in that thread.
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Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 11:49 pm
lazarusHART
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punk_rocker94 wrote:
what would happen if you did get bitten by a dog sized parasite?
You would get what I now call the Marlena effect...
Damn, even when about to pop that woman was hot...
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Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 3:17 am
Animaniac
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Marlena, Cloverfield's pop-tart
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Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 3:48 am
lazarusHART
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Animaniac wrote:
Marlena, Cloverfield's pop-tart
You have made my night,
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Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 4:02 am
cm101388
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"well i call that a date"- HUD
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Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 1:10 pm
davexunit
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I wonder how many people died on the bridge, because that bridge was PACKED with people, and not many got off alive. So between exploding from parasite bites, being eaten by LSA, and swimming with the fishes it's no wonder why there weren't a ton of bodies everywhere. The PG-13 rating probably had something to do with that also. It would've been pretty freaky to see a bunch of exploded or half eaten corpses lying around where LSA had walked.
Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 12:07 pm
avpruler
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I second that notion. it would take away from the movie, cause there would be bodies EVERYWHERE, and it would bore everyone cause seeing generic exploded people everywhere gets old. Maybe a couple bodies would be nice, considering you saw at most three human bodies in the whole movie.
1.That dead soldier who got BITTEN*DUN DUN DUN*
2. Huds Torso.
3. Huds Feet.
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 3:06 pm
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