Posted on 12/24/2008 3:56:13 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls of all ages. Santa has begun his around the world visit to all of those who have been good. Follow Santa in his travels by clicking on the link. Get the kids up to the computer and watch their amazement as Santa gets near.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you as well
You don’t want a doll or a dinky tinker toy, eh?
Best to you and yours for Christmas as well.
Your husband works in the mountain?
See post 17, and have a wonderful Christmas.
No. He works FedEx=Santa Claus.
Night before last, our local UPS dude was chugging up and down the street around 8:30 pm.
Yup! Those poor guys get all sorts of interesting responses when they are ringing bells at that hour.
“Santa Has Begun His Around The World Trip”
I wonder if there will be headlines such as these when Jesus returns. I sometimes wonder if many of us would even recognize him.
He actually dropped a package over the front gate and didn’t ring.....I discovered it the next morning; good thing it didn’t rain — as it is, we’ll find out soon if the Harry and David pears survived the overnight cold!
Sarajevo will not be part of it.
Bosnia, Fatwa forbids Santa Claus: Satanic Celebrations for Illuminati’s LAST Christmas in their FIRST new muslim “country” in Europe
http://iran-hoax.blogspot.com/2008/12/bosnia-fatwa-forbids-santa-claus.html
A Blessed Merry Christmas to the wonderful FRpers over at FR! :) =^..^=
May the joy of the season be in your heart. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Thanks for posting the cool link. Sending to my two grandkids. I’m sure they’ll enjoy tracking Santa.
The Physics of Santa Claus
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 aabout .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.
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.
You are quite welcome! Wishing you and your family a very Merry Christmas!
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