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| Santa Cannot Beat Physics | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 19 2008, 11:51 AM (147 Views) | |
dobber
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Dec 19 2008, 11:51 AM Post #1 |
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There are approximately two billion children (persons who are under 18 years of age) in the world. However, since Santa Claus does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish & Buddhist (except possibly in Japan) religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to about 15% of the total, or 378 million children (according to the Population Reference Bureau). At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming of course, there is at least one good child in each. Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming 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 1/1,000th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stocking, 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 or about 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a meager 27.4 miles per second, and a conventional Reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles per hour. 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 a payload of over 500 thousand tons, not counting Santa himself. On land, a conventional Reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that "Flying" Reindeer can pull 10 times the normal amount, the job cannot be done with 8 or even 9 of them. Santa would require 360,000 of them. This increases the payload, not taking into account the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons or roughly 7 times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the Monarch). 600,000 tons travelling at 650 miles per second creates an enormous amount of wind resistance. This would cause the Reindeer to heat up 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, thus exposing the Reindeer behind to deafening sonic booms, in their wake. The entire Reindeer team would be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second, or about the time that Santa reached the fifth house on his trip. Not that this matters, since Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 miles per second in .001 seconds, would be subjected to acceleration forces of 17,000 "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 thus reducing him to a quivering pile of pink goo. Merry Christmas. |
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condescending twat Someone who looks down on other people and is beyond arrogant | |
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| Whit | Dec 19 2008, 12:00 PM Post #2 |
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Excellent article... it really is amazing how Santa is so magical that he can persevere through such conditions and against all odds just to make the children of the world happy! He must be one helluva fellow! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
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chessy
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Dec 19 2008, 12:47 PM Post #3 |
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auto workers are just as majical..:) :) :) |
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bowhunter-57
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Dec 19 2008, 02:19 PM Post #4 |
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Hey Ian you have far to much time on your hands.Where do you come up with these things? |
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WLK
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Dec 19 2008, 02:27 PM Post #5 |
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Dobber, what are you telling me ? that there's NO Santa Claus ? Not true, Pres Bush turned Santa this morning for the Big 3. |
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Terrym
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Dec 19 2008, 02:37 PM Post #6 |
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My youngest daughter would kick you in the nuts if she read that post, bah humbug
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Terrym
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Dec 19 2008, 02:38 PM Post #7 |
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Its called cut & paste and a really slow day at work
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dobber
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Dec 19 2008, 04:33 PM Post #8 |
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cut and paste has become an art form |
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condescending twat Someone who looks down on other people and is beyond arrogant | |
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Coyotechaser
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Dec 19 2008, 07:08 PM Post #9 |
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I don't care what you say, I still believe in him! |
Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical, liberal minority,and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a bowel movement by the clean end
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