I don't believe in trolls. What an odd thing to believe in. Totally unrealistic.
Do you also believe in fairies?
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Do you also believe in fairies?
DivineMedicus
Vereor Nox
- Sep 7, 2020
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No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.
There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 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's at least one good child in each.
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 seems 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 the 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 that each of these 91.8 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for our calculations, we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding etc. This means that Santa's 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.
The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting 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.
353,000 tons travelling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer in the same fashion as spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.
Checkmate, Santa believers.
There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 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's at least one good child in each.
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 seems 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 the 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 that each of these 91.8 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for our calculations, we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding etc. This means that Santa's 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.
The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting 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.
353,000 tons travelling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer in the same fashion as spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.
Checkmate, Santa believers.
My only question about this is... why does santa look different in any mall i go?
GenesAndEnvironment
Autistic loser
- Jan 26, 2021
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I don't know, but he's immortal so I'd expect him to change or alter his form often.
blueclover_.
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avoid_slow_death
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- Feb 4, 2020
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Essential Meaning of sarcasm
: the use of words that mean the opposite of what you really want to say especially in order to insult someone, to show irritation, or to be funny
'Murica!At least you don't live in a country where people still sign petitions to ban Santa from blasphemously ringing his bell near churches. Priests bitch-slap him with impunity & encourage folks to burn his effigies.I'm not even making this shit up.
GentleJerk
Carrot juice pimp.
- Dec 14, 2021
- 1,373
@GenesAndEnvironment your lil' SN Grinch is so relevant right now and made my day x)
Yes I'm there now. I fully understand. My brain just needed to work. Thanks for the clarification mate.
But like I said to another user; I didn't want to insult the OP if he/she really DID believe in Santa. I guess there must be someone out there that still does.
rationaltake
I'm rocking it - in another universe
- Sep 28, 2021
- 2,712
Like Dr Who. Obviously! Is Santa a Timelord? And is his sleigh a TARDIS?
NasiGoreng
Experienced
- Aug 11, 2021
- 219
That's the most idiotic thing I have ever heard, everyone knows the real Santa is Finnish.
callme
I'm a loose cannon - I bang all the time.
- Aug 15, 2021
- 1,235
That's the most idiotic thing I have ever heard, everyone knows the real Santa is Finnish.
Jesus is a mexican bandit.
Dr Iron Arc
Into the Unknown
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callme
I'm a loose cannon - I bang all the time.
- Aug 15, 2021
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motel rooms
Survivor of incest. Gay. Please don't PM me.
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https://sanctioned-suicide.net/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia0.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2Fl2Sq9sRXKuyunsgTu%2F200.gif&hash=a5e5b14fb12dae0bc20ae76efb4f8b70At least you don't live in a country where people still sign petitions to ban Santa from blasphemously ringing his bell near churches. Priests bitch-slap him with impunity & encourage folks to burn his effigies.
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