santas trip................i dont know y i didnt do this one on xmas....dont ask

[Da popo]

There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the
world.

However, since Santa does not visit children of Sikh, 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 a 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 travelling 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 vaporised 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 0.001 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!

[James]

[color=#507AAC]Hm, it looks like you just copied and pasted this.

Especially considering the poor post quality of the thread's title.

Intead of posting this:[/color]

[quote]santas trip................i dont know y i didnt do this one on xmas....dont ask[/quote]

[color=#507AAC]Try posting this:[/color]

[quote]Santa's trip; I don't know why I didn't do this one on Xmas. Don't ask.[/quote]

[color=#507AAC]See the difference?

Let's try to get some actual discussion going in the future. ^_^[/color]

[Red]

[b][color=003399]I'm going to close this mainly for the reasons mentioned above.. it seems you have just copied and pasted this from somewhere, plus I doubt it'll bring up any good discussion.[/b][/color]