Brilliant!!!
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From: Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Ozdat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 4:04 AM
Subject: Fw: So little time, so many presents...
>
> >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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