12-12-2001, 01:04 PM | #1 |
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SOME FACTS ABOUT SANTA CLAUS
> > 1) No known species of reindeer can fly. But there are 300,000 species of > living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects > and germs, this does not completely rule out flying reindeer which only > Santa has ever seen. > > 2) There are 2 billion children in the world (persons under 18). But since > Santa doesn't (appear to) handle Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, or Buddhist > children, that reduces the workload by 85% of the total - leaving 378 > million according to the Population Reference Bureau. At an average > (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One > presumes there is at least one good child per house. > > 3) Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different > time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west > (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is > to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has > 1/1000 th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the > chimney, dragging the bag of presents through, put the remaining presents > under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the > chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house. Assuming > that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the > earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our > calculations we will accept), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per > household, a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting stops to do > what most of us do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding, etc. That > means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3000 times the > speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle on > earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a > conventional reindeer can run, at tops 25-30 miles per hour. > > 4) The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming > each child gets nothing more then a medium sized LEGO set (2 lbs), the > sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably > described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more > than 300 pounds. Even granting the 'flying reindeer' can pull TEN TIMES > that normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine - we need > 214,200 reindeer. This increased the payload--not even counting the weight > of the sleigh--to 353,430 tons. Again for comparison, this is four times > the weight of the HMS Queen Elizabeth. > > 5) 353,000 tons travelling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air > resistance. This will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as > spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair will absorb > 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy per second, each. In short, they will > burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind > them, and creating a deafening sonic boom in their wake. The entire > reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa > meanwhile, will be subject to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater > than gravity. A 250 lb Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned > to the back of the sleigh by a 4,315,015 pound force. In conclusion, if > Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas eve, he's now dead. >
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12-12-2001, 01:32 PM | #2 |
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Shut your pie-hole! [img]tongue.gif[/img]
You obviously don't know that santa is no ordinary human being...Santa can do anything! |
12-12-2001, 02:26 PM | #3 |
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Santa would have to visit 1 home every second which to me suggests that he is really a mage that casts a spell to stop time, then works for say 5 years delivering presents (using his private jet reindeers cant fly) and then starts time. So in theory we are 5n+n years older than we thought if n = our age.
Interesting [img]smile.gif[/img]
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12-12-2001, 04:13 PM | #4 |
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I love It, I love It.
Especially the scientific facts behind it!!! |
12-13-2001, 01:10 AM | #5 |
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quote: Mmmmmm.. Exploding Reindeer. *POOOF*
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12-13-2001, 01:25 AM | #6 |
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Yall really do take all the fun outta christmas... [img]smile.gif[/img]
They forgot to add the weight and all of the extra elf helper he brings along. But you know, I think the "elfs" are much more gnomelike. In DnD terms anyway.
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12-13-2001, 03:27 AM | #7 |
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quote: Hmmmm, well actually if it was a time stop, he'd be doing it all between the second, time wouldn't move at all, so we would be the same age. Good theory though [img]smile.gif[/img]
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12-13-2001, 04:12 AM | #8 |
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Hey! I was just coming here to post that....oh well. It is still funny even though I've seen it before.
And perhaps Santa is a mage, but whos heard of a mage with a private jet?
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12-13-2001, 10:32 AM | #9 |
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quote: We would still look the same age but in thheory we'd be older.
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