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[align=center]The Physics of Santa Clause

5 scientific reasons he doesn't exist

 

1. 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.

 

2. 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.

 

3. Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, and 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 his sleigh, jump down the chimnye, 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 purpose of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .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, 3000 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.

 

4. 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 punds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (refer to point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal load, 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 - 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison - this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth(the ship).

 

5. 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecrafts re-entereing the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy per SECOND, EACH! In short, hey will burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create a deafening sonic boom in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousanths 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.

 

In conclusion - If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead by now.[/align]

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Why your arguments suck.

 

1) KNOWN being the operative word.

 

2) Flying reindeer could be really really fast. They could be like instant-teleporting, but faster. Who're you to tell Santa who would be naughty and nice? He could just have one nice kid if he wanted to. Nothing saying he can't. Maybe his standards're really high.

 

3) Santa Claus could be really really fast, it's like he can teleport instantly down chimneys and get back up, the Christmas specials are all super-slow speed in Santa scenes so that you don't miss any of the sick Santa action.

 

4) Miniature portable reversible black holes, magic, going back and forth from the North Pole, he's got lots to work with here.

 

5) You doubt the technological marvels of Christmas elves? At this point you're just spewing up desperate nonsensical claims in order to ruin Christmas. Nice try buddy GRINCH. >=(

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Why your arguments suck.

 

1) KNOWN being the operative word.

 

2) Flying reindeer could be really really fast. They could be like instant-teleporting' date=' but faster. Who're you to tell Santa who would be naughty and nice? He could just have one nice kid if he wanted to. Nothing saying he can't. Maybe his standards're really high.

 

3) Santa Claus could be really really fast, it's like he can teleport instantly down chimneys and get back up, the Christmas specials are all super-slow speed in Santa scenes so that you don't miss any of the sick Santa action.

 

4) Miniature portable reversible black holes, magic, going back and forth from the North Pole, he's got lots to work with here.

 

5) You doubt the technological marvels of Christmas elves? At this point you're just spewing up nonsensical desperate claims in order to ruin Christmas. Nice try [s']buddy[/s] GRINCH. >=(

 

I love you.

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[align=center]The Physics of Santa Clause

5 scientific reasons he doesn't exist

 

1. No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300' date='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.

 

[b']2.[/b] 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.

 

3. Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, and 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 his sleigh, jump down the chimnye, 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 purpose of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .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, 3000 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.

 

4. 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 punds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (refer to point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal load, 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 - 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison - this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth(the ship).

 

5. 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecrafts re-entereing the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy per SECOND, EACH! In short, hey will burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create a deafening sonic boom in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousanths 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.

 

In conclusion - If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead by now.[/align]

 

*falls inlove with you* You're my hero! lol, as far back as I can remember, I've never believed in Santa. I've always gone by the fact that if it can't be proven by science, or if science disproves it, then it doesn't exist/isn't possible.

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Santa Clause did existmore then 2000 years ago but he is dead

 

It wasn't that long ago. Check yo history.

 

you check that history you see is a lie

 

More specifically, he converted his aura into a magical core, much like the collection of servers that run the internet. He uses high-level magic to place the presents in the appropriate locations using energy generated throughout the year. Quite an efficient system, really.

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