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The Physics of Santa
Is there a Santa?
The answer is simple: let's have a look at the facts:
1) No kind of reindeer flies. There are, of course, around 300.000 life forms which have not been classified yet, mostly bugs and bacteria, which make us believe that there might be a remote possibility there is, or was, a species of flying reindeers.
2) There are around two billion kids -below the age of 18- on Earth. But because Santa does not visit Muslim, Jews, Budists etc, his work is cut down to the 15% of this number, around 378 million kids. With an average of 3,5 kids per house, we've got 91,8 million houses. We assume that in each and every one of those houses there is at least one kid who was nice the whole year.
3) Santa's day is 31 hours if we calculate the different timezones when he travels from east to west. That gives him around 822,6 visits per second. That means that Santa has around 1/1000 of a second to park the sleigh, go down the chimney, put the presents, eat his milk and cookies, etc etc. If we assume that those 91,8 million houses are equally spread apart, then distance from every stop till the next is 1,3 kilometers, which gives us a total of 120,8 million kilometers. That meens that Santa's sleigh should run at an average speed of 1040 kilometers per second, 3000 faster than the speed of sound. A reindeer can run up to 24 kilometers per hour.
4) Let us assume that every gift weights around 1 kilogram, then the sleight will weight around 378,000 tones, not including Santa who, as we all know, is fat. A reindeer cannot carry more than 175 kilos. Even one, or eight or nine flying reindeers, who hypothetically could carry ten times more, cannot carry this burden. It would take around 216.000 reindeers, making the total weight of everythin accounted for around 410.000 tones.
5) 410.000 tones with a speed of 1040 kilometers per second cause great air resistance and heat, similar to a spaceship entering the atmosphere. The first pair of reindeers absorbs energy of 16,6 trillion joules. That means, in a few words, that those first two poor bastards would burn immediately. The next pair would instanty be exposed to an incredible resistance, resulting in a very loud bang
6) Each and every reindeer would have been evaporated in less than 5 miliseconds. Santa, on the other hand, would have been exposed in an acceleration force of 17,500 times greater than the Earth's (G force) which would make him slam on the back of the sleigh with a pressure of 20,6 million Neutons.
After that we could safely say that even if Santa existed, he does not exist any more
The answer is simple: let's have a look at the facts:
1) No kind of reindeer flies. There are, of course, around 300.000 life forms which have not been classified yet, mostly bugs and bacteria, which make us believe that there might be a remote possibility there is, or was, a species of flying reindeers.
2) There are around two billion kids -below the age of 18- on Earth. But because Santa does not visit Muslim, Jews, Budists etc, his work is cut down to the 15% of this number, around 378 million kids. With an average of 3,5 kids per house, we've got 91,8 million houses. We assume that in each and every one of those houses there is at least one kid who was nice the whole year.
3) Santa's day is 31 hours if we calculate the different timezones when he travels from east to west. That gives him around 822,6 visits per second. That means that Santa has around 1/1000 of a second to park the sleigh, go down the chimney, put the presents, eat his milk and cookies, etc etc. If we assume that those 91,8 million houses are equally spread apart, then distance from every stop till the next is 1,3 kilometers, which gives us a total of 120,8 million kilometers. That meens that Santa's sleigh should run at an average speed of 1040 kilometers per second, 3000 faster than the speed of sound. A reindeer can run up to 24 kilometers per hour.
4) Let us assume that every gift weights around 1 kilogram, then the sleight will weight around 378,000 tones, not including Santa who, as we all know, is fat. A reindeer cannot carry more than 175 kilos. Even one, or eight or nine flying reindeers, who hypothetically could carry ten times more, cannot carry this burden. It would take around 216.000 reindeers, making the total weight of everythin accounted for around 410.000 tones.
5) 410.000 tones with a speed of 1040 kilometers per second cause great air resistance and heat, similar to a spaceship entering the atmosphere. The first pair of reindeers absorbs energy of 16,6 trillion joules. That means, in a few words, that those first two poor bastards would burn immediately. The next pair would instanty be exposed to an incredible resistance, resulting in a very loud bang
6) Each and every reindeer would have been evaporated in less than 5 miliseconds. Santa, on the other hand, would have been exposed in an acceleration force of 17,500 times greater than the Earth's (G force) which would make him slam on the back of the sleigh with a pressure of 20,6 million Neutons.
After that we could safely say that even if Santa existed, he does not exist any more
Comments
how can 85% of children be Christian?
and the 1/3 good kid statistic cannot be true, too many pokemon cards have been stolen throughout time for that to be true
It was all just a few kids who did the thieving.
Or the Easter Bunny.
Or a leprechaun.
Also, I think he is taking a break this Christmas by handing out the 24 HOUR paper at Lougheed Skytrain Station.
Santa isn't affected by money.