is there really a santa??

stu_69

>Goes around every year, why should this one be any different...
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>
> > > IS THERE A SANTA?
> > >
> > > In the Late 1800s a little girl named Virginia asked the New York
>Times
> >if
> > >
> > >
> > > there was a Santa Clause. The reply is now famous. Someone thought it
> > >
> > > would be fun to ask the scientists at NASA the same question. Here is
> > >
> > > their reply:
> > >
> > >
> > > 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 seen.
> > >
> > >
> > > There are two billion children (under 18) in the world. But since
>Santa
> > >
> > > doesn't appear to handle Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and Jewish children,
> >that
> > >
> > >
> > > reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 138 million or so. At an
> > >
> > > average rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes.
> >One
> > >
> > >
> > > presumes there is at least one good child in each.
> > >
> > >
> > > Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to time zones and
> >the
> > >
> > >
> > > rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west. This works
>out
> >to
> > >
> > >
> > > 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each household with
> >good
> > >
> > > children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the
>sleigh,
> > >
> > > jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining
> > >
> > > gifts under the tree, eat snacks, get back up the chimney, get back
>into
> > >
> > > the sleigh, and move to the next house.
> > >
> > >
> > > Assuming that each of these 91.8 million houses are distributed evenly
> > >
> > > (which we know to be false but for the sake of these calculations we
> >will
> > >
> > > accept) we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household, a total
>trip
> >of
> > >
> > >
> > > 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops. This means that
>Santa's
> > >
> > > sleigh is traveling at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of
> > >
> > > sound.
> > >
> > >
> > > For comparison, the fastest man made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe
> > >
> > > moves at a poky 27.4 mps. The average reindeer runs at 15 mph. The
> > >
> > > sleigh's payload adds another interesting element. Assuming that each
> > >
> > > child gets nothing more than a medium sized Lego set (2 pounds), 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 that "flying reindeer" (see first
> > >
> > > paragraph) could pull TEN TIMES the usual amount, we cannot do the job
> > >
> > > with 8 or even 9. We need 214,000 reindeer. This increases the weight,
> >not
> > >
> > >
> > > even counting the sleigh, to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison this
>is
> >4
> > >
> > >
> > > times the weight of the British liner Queen Elizabeth 2.
> > >
> > >
> > > 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates an enormous air
> > >
> > > resistance. This will heat the reindeer in the same manner as a
> >spacecraft
> > >
> > >
> > > re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will
> >absorb
> > >
> > > 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy..... Per second.....Each! In short,
> >they
> > >
> > >
> > > will burst in flame almost instantaneously, exposing the next pair of
> > >
> > > reindeer, and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire
> > >
> > > team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousands of a second.
> > >
> > >
> > > Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06
> >times
> > >
> > > the force of gravity. A 300 pound Santa would be pinned to the back of
> >his
> > >
> > >
> > > sleigh by 4,325,015 pounds of force.
> > >
> > >
> > > CONCLUSION: There was a Santa, but he's dead now.

tobi

Nice one LoL

SantaHoe

Humm...
ph33r my squishy corpse!