Posted December 14, 200222 yr CTW Moderators I haven't been doing the thinking )(honest) DOES SANTA EXIST??????? > >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 15% of 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 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 around 1/1000 th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump >down the chimney, fill the stocking, 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 onto 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 -- 3,000 >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 15 miles per hour. > >The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element. > >Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized LEGO set >(two pounds), 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 can pull 10 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 earth's atmosphere. > >The lead pair of reindeer would adsorb 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 a dead stop to 650 m.p.s. in .001 seconds, would be subjected to >acceleration forces of 17,000 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. > >Therefore, if Santa did exist, he's dead now!! Si@ClubTheWorld.ukCTW Moderator | ClubTheWorld.uk | Twitter | Instagram
December 15, 200222 yr CTW Members someone has too much time on thier hands..lol ================================================ **Nunc scio quit sit amor."Lat. "Now I know what love is"** ================================================= msn- maa_97@hotmail.com http://www.faceparty.com/sweet_26
December 15, 200222 yr CTW Producers you....you...mean theres no..santa..... http://bos.abavagada.net/oddfiles/djelementalonline.jpg
December 15, 200222 yr CTW Members What about the tooth fairy, how rich would she have to be??? As if by magic the shopkeeper appeared!!!
December 15, 200222 yr CTW Members But santa doesnt just go to children does he so all that info is wrong lol, if he did then parents wouldnt get any pressies either You Can Never Have Too Much Of A Good Thing It'd Be Rude Not 2!! *I Need A Tissue* MSN: Claire___DC @hotmail.com Email: clairedc @ dsl .pipex .com
December 15, 200222 yr Author CTW Moderators hey i didnt write that, or the rules lol Si@ClubTheWorld.ukCTW Moderator | ClubTheWorld.uk | Twitter | Instagram
December 16, 200222 yr CTW Members LIAR, u know u did You Can Never Have Too Much Of A Good Thing It'd Be Rude Not 2!! *I Need A Tissue* MSN: Claire___DC @hotmail.com Email: clairedc @ dsl .pipex .com
December 16, 200222 yr CTW Members i wrote the rules but u wrote that You Can Never Have Too Much Of A Good Thing It'd Be Rude Not 2!! *I Need A Tissue* MSN: Claire___DC @hotmail.com Email: clairedc @ dsl .pipex .com
December 16, 200222 yr Author CTW Moderators u reckon lmao Si@ClubTheWorld.ukCTW Moderator | ClubTheWorld.uk | Twitter | Instagram
December 16, 200222 yr CTW Members i KNOW You Can Never Have Too Much Of A Good Thing It'd Be Rude Not 2!! *I Need A Tissue* MSN: Claire___DC @hotmail.com Email: clairedc @ dsl .pipex .com
December 16, 200222 yr CTW Members Therefore, if Santa did exist, he's dead now Bt there is a god... right? My new tune - Acid Test Read the CTW music news HERE DJ collapses after World record attempt "Dont u think its about time you grew up?" "No" Girl's are the Devil
December 16, 200222 yr CTW Members i just hope that santa doesnt find out about this thread or we are all proper [censored]
December 16, 200222 yr CTW Members You Can Never Have Too Much Of A Good Thing It'd Be Rude Not 2!! *I Need A Tissue* MSN: Claire___DC @hotmail.com Email: clairedc @ dsl .pipex .com
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