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Scientists explain why santa doesn't exist


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Scientists have tried to answer the question, "Does Santa come with flying reindeer to deliver presents at Christmas?" This is what they have found:

1. No known species of reindeer can fly, but there are 300,000 species of living organims yet to be classified. Although most of these are insects and bacteria, this does not rule out flying reindeer.

2. According to the Population Refeence Bureau, 378 million people celebrate Christmas worldwide. With an average of 3.5 children per home, that's 91.8 million homes for Santa to visit.

3. Thanks to different time zones, Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, assuming he travels east to west. This works out to 822.6 visits per second. That means for each celebrating household with at least one good child in it, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, place presents under the tree, eat the cookies and return to the sleigh.

4. Assuming that all 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed throughout the earth, the total trip time will be 75.5 million miles. That means Santa's sleigh must move 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 27.4 miles per second.

5. Assuming that each child get nothing more than a medium-sized Lego set (weighing 2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying a payload of 321,300 tons, not counting jolly ol' Saint Nick himself.

6. A standard reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even if flying reindeer might pull 10 times more than a normal reindeer, Santa would need 214,200 reindeer to pull the sleigh. The reindeer, payload, Santa and sleigh would therefore weigh more than 353,430 tons. This is four times the weight of the Q.E. II cruise ship.

7. This 353,430 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates tremendous air resistance, heating the reindeer in the same manner as a spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would therefore absorb 14.3 quintillion joule of energy, per second, each.

8. The lead reindeer, as a result will burst into flames, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating massive sonic booms in their wakes. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 0.00426 seconds. Santa will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500 times greater than gravity. Assuming that Santa weighs 250 pounds, he would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,375,000 pounds of centrifugal force.

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8. The lead reindeer, as a result will burst into flames, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating massive sonic booms in their wakes. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 0.00426 seconds. Santa will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500 times greater than gravity. Assuming that Santa weighs 250 pounds, he would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,375,000 pounds of centrifugal force.

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6. A standard reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even if flying reindeer might pull 10 times more than a normal reindeer, Santa would need 214,200 reindeer to pull the sleigh. The reindeer, payload, Santa and sleigh would therefore weigh more than 353,430 tons. This is four times the weight of the Q.E. II cruise ship.

Actually this is wrong. One of the biggest problems with engines, was as they get larger they have to be larger to move them

The only wayto achieve the speeds mentioned would be to have reindeer that mutiplied their weight to power ration by the exponent of thousands.

After all if the jolly old fat man weighs 4.4 million pounds at full acceleration, how much more would the sleigh weigh?

So obviously the 9 reindeer he has pulling for him could pull millions of pounds each ;)

That kind of torque to speed ratio is amazing?

It also explains why most people do not see him.

When moving at the speeds he moves at, 1/1000 second per household, the human eye would register it as teleportation

also considering hte amount of sin and depravity in the world today, I seriously doubt that santa has 280 million homes to visit each year. (Probably more like 380 homes LOL)

You have to figure in not just the obvious sins and activities but the non-obvious ones too. Just being good is not enough, as it is a christian holiday, so regular church attendence would be necessary ;)

So this seriously reduces the time/ weight ratio. Also if one hypothesizes that he uses some kind of time slowing device for the planet.. He has enough time to take a bite of cookie, drink some milk, and give his reindeer the celery or carrots that was leftfor them.

Just thought that maybe Science is not all its cracked up to be ;)

rock on fat Man!!!

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Since the world didn't know all this uptil now, it was OK. But now ppl know his that it aint possible, nad its the science age, and science doesn't believe in miracles, so Santa Claus would go underground until times get better for him (Newton's E=mc^2 applied on his sledge, maybe).

:)

P.S: BTW Santa can't weigh 250 lb. That's his clothes man he is travelling at a very fast speed in falling snow you know. His apparent size is of all his clothing.

Yet another P.S: I can't believe in Santa either. Just commented on the scientific facts.

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