The Best Zombie Hide-Out is the Mall

Some real zombie physics:

So, you're in the midst of a zombie outbreak. Do you head for the hills, or take refuge in a mall? A new physics paper says that hunkering down in a sprawling shopping center will increase your odds of survival.

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The paper examines the likelihood of the targets surviving — that is, never coming into contact with these "random walkers" — if they remain immobile within various types of structures. One of Cassi's findings is that the more complex the hideout, the less likely a random walker is to encounter a target. This means that hiding out in a building filled with twisting corridors, such as a mall or a school, offers a better chance of survival than hiding out in the open or in more open structures.

This person has something a little more defensible in mind. And here is an article on the Top 5 Zombie Hideouts.

On the last article, I do want to comment on the idea of using a prison as a retreat. Don't. Prisons are not designed to defend from an outside attack, but to defend from someone already inside. Doors are locked, and generally can only be opened from a control room. The accommodations suck. In a zombie apocalypse, prisons will already be full of zombies. Better to stick to the mall.