George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽Certainly easier to defeat.
Shawn Wildermuth (🇺🇦++)@georgetakei Easier? They're responsible for more deaths than any other animal ever.
William B Peckham@georgetakei Big MAN sized mosquitoes. Y'know, never mind. I don't want to see that.
Charlie StrossLeeches. Vampires are leeches.
(Haemophagia is a metabolically marginal diet—blood is notably short on nutrients!—so all actually-existing haemophagic species are highly specialized. I once did a BOTE calculation and worked out that a human-size vampire would need to bleed about one victim per hour completely dry to avoid starvation.)
Denny@cstross Fiction leads to such interesting research and search engine histories 🙂
David FyhrieI doubt that vampires run on chemistry. They run on zero point energy. Blood is for being sexy.
Carlos Guerreiro@cstross @georgetakei
Aha. Well that explains why this one here would take more than blood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGvX7ma7Xnk
Aha. Well that explains why this one here would take more than blood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGvX7ma7Xnk
El Conde | Official Trailer | Netflix
Hedgewizard 🐈There was a British vampire show called "Ultraviolet" in the late 80s in which the word vampire was never used: they called them leeches or 'code fives'
Killa Koala@cstross Perhaps humans aren't vampires nutrition, we're their "empty calories", their equivalent of chocolate.
C.Hmm. So what's the explanation? My first thought was total conversion of the iron in the haemoglobin to energy. 3-4g in the whole body, say about 250mg in one blood meal... gives about 6 million kWh. Do vampires traditionally emit mostly in X- and gamma rays?
Guitarsophist@cstross @georgetakei Yeah, but vampires are undead, and therefore, magic. Mundane calculations of magical things are always going to be off. There is probably an app for it though.
Henk Langeveld
pmars@georgetakei good luck running a stake through a mosquitos heart.
Coyoty@hysteretic @georgetakei Malaria vaccine syringe.
Britz 🇺🇸@georgetakei get bit, get malaria… become a severely limited vampire yourself.
True Slicky@georgetakei Not nearly as fun to yell before transforming on "What We Do In the Shadows"
Malte@georgetakei Makes sense really. I was still surprised when I first saw the concept realized in Darkest Dungeon - Crimson Court:
Darkest Dungeon: The Crimson Court - Launch Trailer
Michael Vilain@georgetakei Either way, they'd violate the Law of Conservation of Mass.
blterrible@georgetakei You'd need really tiny wooden stakes though.
Steinar Bang@georgetakei Hah! Shows you haven't spent much time in the Everglades!
aproitzPathetic - this Woman really knows absolutely nothing about #Vampires.
She should read #BramStoker (if she can read then... )