Proof That Sant Isn't Real
#1- No known species of reindeer can fly. But there are 3000,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified and, while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out the flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.
#2-There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world, BUT since Santa does not appear (appear) to handle Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, and Buddihist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 278 million according to the Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there is at least on good child in each.
#3 Santa has 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 would seem logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to PARK, HOP out of sleigh, JUMP down the chimney, FILL the stockings, DISTRIBUTE the remaining presents under the tree, EAT whatever snacks have been left, GET BACK up the chimney, GET BACK into the sleigh and MOVE on to the next house.
Assuming each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth(which, of course, we know to be false, but for the purpose of our calculations we will exept.), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops for what most of us do at least every 31 hours.
This means that Santas sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.
#4 - The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more that a medium-sized Lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting santa, who is invariably described as beeing overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granted that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull ten times the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight or even nine. We Need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison - this is FOUR TIMES the weight of Queen Elizibeth
# 5 - 353,000 tons travelling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fasion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer each will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy per second. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and creat deafening sonic booms in there wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporised within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal force 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. a 250 pound santa(which would seem ludicrously slim) would be PINNED against the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.
IN CONCLUSION - If santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, HE'S DEAD NOW!
#1- No known species of reindeer can fly. But there are 3000,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified and, while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out the flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.
#2-There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world, BUT since Santa does not appear (appear) to handle Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, and Buddihist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 278 million according to the Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there is at least on good child in each.
#3 Santa has 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 would seem logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to PARK, HOP out of sleigh, JUMP down the chimney, FILL the stockings, DISTRIBUTE the remaining presents under the tree, EAT whatever snacks have been left, GET BACK up the chimney, GET BACK into the sleigh and MOVE on to the next house.
Assuming each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth(which, of course, we know to be false, but for the purpose of our calculations we will exept.), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops for what most of us do at least every 31 hours.
This means that Santas sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.
#4 - The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more that a medium-sized Lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting santa, who is invariably described as beeing overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granted that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull ten times the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight or even nine. We Need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison - this is FOUR TIMES the weight of Queen Elizibeth
# 5 - 353,000 tons travelling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fasion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer each will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy per second. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and creat deafening sonic booms in there wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporised within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal force 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. a 250 pound santa(which would seem ludicrously slim) would be PINNED against the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.
IN CONCLUSION - If santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, HE'S DEAD NOW!
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