Sam Mcgoo Posted December 25, 2010 Share Posted December 25, 2010 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 150f 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 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 round 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 - 3000 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 size Lego set, (two pounds weight), 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 earths atmosphere. The lead 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 dead stop to 650 miles per second in 0.001 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..... In conclusion therefore, if Santa did exist, he's dead now. Merry Christmas........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pathfinder123 Posted December 25, 2010 Share Posted December 25, 2010 Blast, that's why I didn't get the 370Z I asked for... S. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattbowey Posted December 25, 2010 Share Posted December 25, 2010 brilliant but with all of your points considered you have forgotten the most important Santa uses magic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
350 Russ Posted December 25, 2010 Share Posted December 25, 2010 you mean santa isnt real Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Husky Posted December 25, 2010 Share Posted December 25, 2010 time is the factor here... and santa can stop it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob d Posted December 25, 2010 Share Posted December 25, 2010 it's simple.... Santa knows there is no spoon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Husky Posted December 25, 2010 Share Posted December 25, 2010 it's simple.... Santa knows there is no spoon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkwright Posted December 26, 2010 Share Posted December 26, 2010 Santa Rules Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoogyRev Posted December 26, 2010 Share Posted December 26, 2010 And your surprised you never see him... he's a busy chap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtbiscuit Posted December 27, 2010 Share Posted December 27, 2010 i liked the break down of this, the maths startts to make the brain boggle. lucky he can control time and space to tmake it work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racinggreen Posted December 27, 2010 Share Posted December 27, 2010 ermmmmmm.......... is Santa a friend of Dr Who? This would of course explain all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexx Posted December 27, 2010 Share Posted December 27, 2010 Santa is actually Chuck Norris. Normal rules dont apply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattbowey Posted December 27, 2010 Share Posted December 27, 2010 Santa is actually Chuck Norris. Normal rules dont apply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob d Posted December 27, 2010 Share Posted December 27, 2010 My Mrs wants to buy a chicken and call it Cluck Norris..... almost worth it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Husky Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 My Mrs wants to buy a chicken and call it Cluck Norris..... almost worth it got to be done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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