STRAT Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 Sorry to put a downer on your beliefs, but this theory just proves he's a fake!!! 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 (except maybe in Japan) 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 household, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming that 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 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. 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). 600,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates 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 acceleration 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. Next time dont be so gullible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vizwhiz Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 No No No No !!!! it is SANTA CLAWS ALL of the CATS in the World are VIRTUAL SANTAs looky here http://www.cgarchitect.com/forum/filepush.asp?file=santaclaws.jpg did This all hper-sonic Travel happen in the "Strat-o-fear" ?? you get an old Lump of Coal in your virtual Stocking THIS YEAR bah Bug Hum **** when i grow up i want to be a Kid **** Randy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdmc Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 I think you are just bitter because you didn't get a pony when you were 12. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 Next time dont be so gullible Ha! Santa is a saint, he has the full force and credit of God behind him. God was able to make the Heavens and Earth and all manner of creatures that creapeth upon it in a week, with time enough left over to take Sunday off. Let's see any of us model a decent block of flats in that time, much less all of creation. I think you have to understand two things to put this whole Santa thing into perspective. One, God's control the passage of time and perception of it by we mortals, so they can do tricks with time and space, and two, that engineers have too damned much time on thier hands if they can calculate Santa G-forces and aerodynamic pressure on flying reindeer. They should work a little harder aiming spacecraft at Mars (its that big red planet next-door that most of them have mannaged to miss). Pass the egg nog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted December 25, 2003 Author Share Posted December 25, 2003 hmm, this may proove me wrong..... http://www.noradsanta.org/english/radar/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard McCarthy Posted December 26, 2003 Share Posted December 26, 2003 Did you just figure that out Strat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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