Santa won't be passing your house this year! Kids, prepare to be horrified, people over 13, prepare to be amused.
I. There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18 ) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the Population Reference Bureau). At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per house hold, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming that there is at least one good child in each.
II. Santa has about 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 967.7 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and get on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false, but will accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops or breaks. This means Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second --- 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles per hour.
III. The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized Lego set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousand tons, not counting Santa himself. On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that the "flying" reindeer could pull ten times the normal amount, the job can't be done with eight or even nine of them --- Santa would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch).
IV. 600,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second crates enormous air resistance --- this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team would be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reached the fifth house on his trip. Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 m.p.s. in .001 seconds, would be subjected to centrifugal forces of 17,500 g's. A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of pink goo.
V. Therefore, if Santa did exist, he's dead now. Merry Christmas.
Santa with nice red clothing is just made up for Coca Cola's marketing (back in '20 or '30 I think). It's a deviation, from St. Nicholas.
I realized that he doesn't exist at the age of 10, when I asked my mother: "Hey, if Santa Claus is so mighty and good, why he go around the world giving presents to children? Why don't he go to African poor countries to save from hunger this children and people ?"
Indeed, he doesn't exist.
It doesn't mean that he isn't very nice and kind granny who contributes to beautifull Christmas atmosfere 🙂
I adore those movies with Santa, all stereotypically the same but beautifull (often involving some touching family story)
I love Christmas,
* * * MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU, EVEN TO YOU, SANTA! * * *
(I am flood with good emotions, so I wished you Merry Xmas a little bit too early)
😕
Originally posted by Sargent CarpfaceNo. What you're saying is that:
V. Therefore, if Santa did exist, he's dead now. Merry Christmas.
Santa is VERY fast. So, presumably he and his reindeer are snorting coke.
We should not ask Santa for too many presents.
The reindeer are wearing space shuttle padding.
And that Santa and Captain Kirk have sonicboomabsorbers in common.
Why would he be dead?
geez... you guys are so dumb. Santa is MAGIC. He can do all of those things you mentioned. Time anf the laws of nature do not apply to him, I mean the first clue would be flying reigndeer (hello?). The reason Santa doesn't go to Africa, is because there isn't any snow there for his sliegh to land on, uh duh!* shakes head* some people can be so thick headed😞
Originally posted by duecererrrrrrrr.. there is no snow in australia too 😛
geez... you guys are so dumb. Santa is MAGIC. He can do all of those things you mentioned. Time anf the laws of nature do not apply to him, I mean the first clue would be flying reigndeer (hello?). The reason Santa doesn't go to Africa, is because there isn't any snow there for his sliegh to land on, uh duh!* shakes head* some people can be so thick headed😞
Yet australians receive their gifts... ?
Originally posted by shavixmirIV. 600,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second crates enormous air resistance --- this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team would be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reached the fifth house on his trip. Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 m.p.s. in .001 seconds, would be subjected to centrifugal forces of 17,500 g's. A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of pink goo.
No. What you're saying is that:
Santa is VERY fast. So, presumably he and his reindeer are snorting coke.
We should not ask Santa for too many presents.
The reindeer are wearing space shuttle padding.
And that Santa and Captain Kirk have sonicboomabsorbers in common.
Why would he be dead?
Originally posted by duecerhow does a rudolf fly? he aint got wings, or engines. Plus Rudolf nose is obviously a legend. The power to light his nose would leak out his nostrils. And if he does not have nostrils (as the dumb movie so specifically shows, he can only breathe through his mouth, and that is extremly difficult to talk and breathe through the mouth at the same time. Now for Frosty, if the silk hat turned frosty to life, why is he nice, why didn't he commit canniblism on the kids? (Course I say cannibleism because its less wasteful.) And if the hat turned him to life, why does it hit the snow (before they put it on) so many times and the snow doesn't live? Thats just stupid. Need I say more, besides if frosty is real, he wrecks the obesity grade curve. (hes also a nudist.)
geez... you guys are so dumb. Santa is MAGIC. He can do all of those things you mentioned. Time anf the laws of nature do not apply to him, I mean the first clue would be flying reigndeer (hello?). The reason Santa doesn't go to Africa, is because there isn't any snow there for his sliegh to land on, uh duh!* shakes head* some people can be so thick headed😞
Originally posted by MontyMooseLook monte python, hes not real, go search for your ark or whatever, dont be weird, thats not possible, he was excecuted by romans in 27 AD.
Santa doesn't handle the whole load himself. A little south of here the kids in Mexico wait for Pancho Claus. And of course everyone knows that Santa is really Baby Jesus all grown up.