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Below is a scientific listing of some of the concepts of the holidays that many people, especially youths have accepted as true. Lets take a look… |
3. “Santa” doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children. 4. This reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 300 million kids. 6. That's 85.7 million homes. 7. One presumes there's at least one good child in each. 9. This works out to 768 visits per second. 11. Assuming each stop is evenly distributed (which we know to be false), we are talking about 0.8 miles per household, a total trip of 75.5 million miles. 12. This is not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours. 13. This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 677 miles per second. 14. That is 3,385 times the speed of sound (0.2 miles/second). 16. A conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour. 18. On land, conventional reindeer can pull 300 pounds. 19. Assuming that "flying reindeer" could pull TEN TIMES the normal amount; we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. 20. We need 100,000 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh to 176,065 tons. 21. This is 1.8 times the weight of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier.
23. Each lead pair of reindeer will absorb 7.2 x 1018 joules of energy per second. 24. In short, they will burst into flames almost instantaneously creating deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 0.004 seconds. |
Adapted from: The Physics of Christmas: From the Aerodynamics of Reindeer to the Thermodynamics of Turkey , SPY Magazine January, 1990 and by Chris Sheehan (newyorkscienceteacher.com) |