Stolen from SkyLineOwners.com ;)

 

 

 

Engineering Proof of the non-existence of Santa

 

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 illogical). 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 II (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 trillion 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.

 

Therefore, if Santa ever did exist, he's dead now.

 

Merry Christmas.

not true.....he uses magic, smoke and mirrors

not true.....he uses magic, smoke and mirrors

 

 

You also have to factor in the additional time spent at Chunks house and MAC's house while he fights them for the PIES!!! :tongue: :rofl:

Kay. Got interior pics if ya want em e-mailing

Kay. Got interior pics if ya want em e-mailing

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SPINKSY - random thread high-jacker member :rofl: :rofl:

 

Probably a IT version of tourets

Soz guys, still new @ these ****puter fingy's

You also have to factor in the additional time spent at Chunks house and MAC's house while he fights them for the PIES!!! :tongue: :rofl:

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