The answer to one of the biggest misteries on earth
#1
Posted 08 May 2004 - 05:00 PM
Let’s look at it logically:
There are 2 billion children across the whole world
An average of 3, 5 children per house give a total of 108 million houses
We assume every house contains at least one good child, this is a optimistically estimation
Santa has 31 hours because of the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he works from east to west, what seems logical
That makes 3, 48 million houses per hour, or 968 houses per second.
This means Santa has 1, 33 mini seconds per house to park, jump out of the sleigh , climb trough the chimney, put the presents beneath the tree, get back trough the chimney, start the sleigh and go to the next house.
If we also assume all houses are equally spread across the earth we are talking about a distance of 1, 3 kilometres per house. This makes a total of 140, 4 million kilometres.
That means the sleigh of Santa makes a speed of 1258 kilometres per second: that’s 4194 times the speed of sound.
A normal reindeer gets up to a speed of 60 kilometres per hour.
The weight of the sleight leads to some other interesting thing: assuming each child gets a normal LEGO box, ca.1 kilo, means the sleight carries a total weight of at least 108 million kilograms, while Santa’s weight is ignored.
On land reindeers can’t carry more than 106 kilogram. Even if a flying reindeer can carry this weight 10 times 8 to 10 reindeers are useless. We need 670.000 reindeers for this weight.
The total weight is now 148, 5 million kilograms. 148, 5 million kilograms with a speed of 1258 kilometres per second makes a huge friction. The reindeers will be heated in the same way as a space probe that goes trough the atmosphere.
The 2 front-reindeers will absorb an estimated 14, 3 billion kilojoules per second. They will probably explode and the friction will go on to the next 2 reindeers.
There will also be sound explosion that have never been heard before.
In 0, 426 seconds the whole team of reindeers will have been exploded.
Meanwhile Santa will be exposed to 17.500 times the normal gravity. A Santa of 300 kilograms will be thrown in the air with a force of 404.350 Newton.
Conclusion: If Santa ever existed he’s probably death by now.
#2
Posted 08 May 2004 - 07:01 PM
And you bothered to work this out....why?
#4
Posted 08 May 2004 - 07:03 PM
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#5
Posted 08 May 2004 - 08:02 PM
#6
Posted 08 May 2004 - 08:19 PM
Meanwhile Santa will be exposed to 17.500 times the normal gravity. A Santa of 300 kilograms will be thrown in the air with a force of 404.350 Newton.
Hmmm so thats why he always looks a bit on the red side
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#8
Posted 09 May 2004 - 08:12 AM
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#9
Posted 09 May 2004 - 08:32 AM
#11
Posted 09 May 2004 - 08:53 AM
#12
Posted 09 May 2004 - 10:53 PM
o and lets not get into the discovery on how the cookie crumbles...
at least this isn't another thing about jacking off...
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Posted 18 May 2004 - 06:21 PM
#16
Posted 18 May 2004 - 08:36 PM
Quotes
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
"In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine." -Erwin Rommel
Economic Left/Right: 10.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.56
#17 Guest_ImmoMan_*
Posted 18 May 2004 - 11:20 PM
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#18
Posted 19 May 2004 - 12:05 AM
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#19 Guest_ImmoMan_*
Posted 19 May 2004 - 12:15 AM
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#20
Posted 19 May 2004 - 02:41 AM
(deso stole them!)
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