Junglecutter
Honorable Delegate
Some engineers took the time to prove and that Santa Clause Dosen't Exist
Here's their proof:
Engineers' Perpective on Santa Clause
There are approximately 378 million children that Santa delivers presents to each year (according to the Population Reference Bureau). At an average rate of 3.5 children per household, that comes to 108 million homes, assuming that 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 rotation of the earth, assuming he travels from east to west. This works out to 967.7 visits per second. This is to say that for each household with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, 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 on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the world (for the purposes of easy calculation) we are now talking about .78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops or breaks. This means that Santas sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second---3000 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 best 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 weighing two pounds, the sleigh is carrying over 500,000 tons, not including Santa himself. On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that the flying reindeer type could pull ten times the normal amount, the job cant be done with 8 or 9 of themSanta would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the queen herself).
600,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance. This would heat up the lead pair of reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft reentering the Earths atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would absorb 14.3 million 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 mps in .001 seconds, would be subjected to centrifugal forces of 17,500 gs. A 250 pound Santa (yeah, right) 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, hes dead now.
:xeyes:
Here's their proof:
Engineers' Perpective on Santa Clause
There are approximately 378 million children that Santa delivers presents to each year (according to the Population Reference Bureau). At an average rate of 3.5 children per household, that comes to 108 million homes, assuming that 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 rotation of the earth, assuming he travels from east to west. This works out to 967.7 visits per second. This is to say that for each household with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, 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 on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the world (for the purposes of easy calculation) we are now talking about .78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops or breaks. This means that Santas sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second---3000 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 best 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 weighing two pounds, the sleigh is carrying over 500,000 tons, not including Santa himself. On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that the flying reindeer type could pull ten times the normal amount, the job cant be done with 8 or 9 of themSanta would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the queen herself).
600,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance. This would heat up the lead pair of reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft reentering the Earths atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would absorb 14.3 million 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 mps in .001 seconds, would be subjected to centrifugal forces of 17,500 gs. A 250 pound Santa (yeah, right) 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, hes dead now.
:xeyes:
