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ameriken
12-14-13, 12:24 PM
This is why at about age 7 or 8, kids figure out there's no such thing as Santa Claus. They just do the math.

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Physics Of Santa Claus
The physics of Santa’s journey

As a result of an overwhelming lack of requests, and with research help from that renowned scientific journal SPY magazine (January, 1990), it's time for the annual scientific inquiry into the Physics of Santa Claus.

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 to 15% of the total -- 378 million according to 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 seemes 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 are evenly distributed around the Earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household, a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and 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 ever made on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a pokey 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. Again, for comparison, this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the boat, not the monarch).

353,000+ tons travelling at 650 miles per second creates enourmous air resistance; this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecrafts 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 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.

In conclusion, if Santa ever did deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead now.

Rocky C
12-14-13, 03:27 PM
I still believe in Santa Claus !!!

irpat54
12-14-13, 04:24 PM
well it is plain to see that this guy will get coal, and he doesn't believe in Magic at all,, if anyone ever watch The Santa Clause with time Alan, they would know how Santa gets around the world in one night.. Duh...

Rocky C
12-14-13, 04:29 PM
:)

Phantom Blooper
12-14-13, 06:06 PM
And he's white.........

irpat54
12-14-13, 07:02 PM
i just saw how i spelled Tim,, i sometimes have uncontrollable flanges,,lol

m14ed
12-15-13, 03:48 AM
i just saw how i spelled Tim,,
i sometimes
-have ***uncontrollable flanges***,,

lol


*** is that/are they
the same as
A$$FLAPS ????

jrh
12-15-13, 06:34 AM
Santa is alive & well in my heart . I pray that I never get old enough to believe anything different . After all "Santa is our friend".

irpat54
12-15-13, 08:14 AM
*** is that/are they
the same as
A$$FLAPS ????
might be... lol

irpat54
12-15-13, 08:17 AM
i mean, really, everyone knows that when Santa gets in His slay the space-time continuum breaks down so he can get to everyplace in one night.. and the Rain deer fly by use of magic feed that they get on Christmas eve..after all they only fly once a year.. hellllllooooo.. duh...!!

SGT7477
12-15-13, 09:44 PM
I wonder if Santa will deliver The Toys For Tots, Semper Fidelis.