>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. At an average rate of
>3.5 children per household,that comes to 108 million homes, presuming there
>is at least one old 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 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 1/1000 th
>of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the
>stocking, 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 onto 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. 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 thousands tons, not counting Santa himself. On land, a
>conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting
that
>the "flying" reindeer can pull 10 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 tonne 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 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 17,000 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.............
>
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