StormofBladeZ
2006-12-17 |  | Santa Clause #1 |  |
Santa Claus:An Engineers Perspective
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.
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spartan117
99+ day(s) ago | Dude that is kinda discusting. But what if his hideout is old fashionsed. Makes like wood caRS and stuff. I would have him buy me a new 360 with GOW and Quake 4 |
420Outlaw
99+ day(s) ago | Well this year im gonna supprise santa, im gonna fill his chcolate biscuits with diarrohea tablets, then i can follow the trail to his hideout to steal all the presents muwahahaha!!! |
spartan117
99+ day(s) ago | Fine be that way.But my idea is still cool |
DarkLandsASC
99+ day(s) ago | I think I`m more prone to believe 500k tons can move at 650 miles and hour powered by 360k reinfeer than he uses magic to stop time. |
spartan117
99+ day(s) ago | Haha thats cool. Wai what if his reindeer have a kida of like coat on them that protected them from the intense heat. Also Santa could clone himself and the reindeer. That way he could be in tons of different stops but still be on time. Also he could alway have any army of elves to help. They could be invisible and drop the presents off. Santa could fly around and supervise. Santa landing and coming down the chimmney is a hologram projected from holopads in the chimmney that are put their by Santa before the house is finished. So what about that????? |
KingHippie
99+ day(s) ago | Yeah. Santa is a godmoder thats how. He uses his friggin chrono magic to stop time and do it.
I personally found out at school. In like..... kindergarten lol
There was this big argument about whether or not santa was real, and I was involved in the following fight =P
Dude shouldnt have told me santa wasnt real. ^^ LMAO |
spartan117
99+ day(s) ago | Stops time. That would be cool. |
hyperion0610
99+ day(s) ago | Ur post is awesome!
I just love it :D |
Hiigarans
99+ day(s) ago | well, i saw such informations on internet before. there is a teacher from Aus explain to the her students (primary school which mean childrens) that santa clause doesnt exist with all this info.
do u know what happen next? 1 of her stundent went back home n questions his other about the santa clause. soon, the parrent make a comlpain tothe education department. then, that teacher got fired LMAO.
reason: she kill the dream of those children.
for addintional info, a poll about most important charecter (vitrual or real life) inr Aus child`s life: 1. thier mother 2. santa clause 3. xxx 4. xxx. from the poll we can see that santa clause was a great idol for those children :) |
Razgriz
99+ day(s) ago | everyone knows he just stops time ;) |
StormofBladeZ
99+ day(s) ago | PInk GoO!!! |
spartan117
99+ day(s) ago | Yeah you don`t need to explain why Santa isn`t real. Kids play this game too. The job for ruining the traditions is ment for parents. Or kids at school. I found out by having a dream my old computer was broken. Then went out to get tools to fix it. My parents said go to bed. I counldn`t get to sleep for 20 minutes. Then I here them pulling out the presents. |
KingHippie
99+ day(s) ago | No... first off. Superman is so g.ay.
BATMAN OWNS ALL!!!!!
Now. Secondly.
Santa is Magic DUH! He is a friggin Chrono Wizard thats how.
*slaps storm into yesterday*
See. like that. now, you are in yesterday. |
DreamlandReformed
99+ day(s) ago | haha, i can explain all this...santa is super man! he uses reindeer as a cover up for going so fast so people thimk that super rudolf and the gang do it, but have you noticed no superman cartoons appearing during christams special...i think maybe a few times but still xD santa is super man...he can do it |
StormofBladeZ
99+ day(s) ago | 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 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 accellerating 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.
Therefore, if Santa did exist, he`s dead now.
(grinns teeth) Cmon children gather round and lets read da story of santa.!! :) |
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