Santa Claus - the proof
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Consider the following:
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 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.
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3) Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, 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 the sleigh, jump down the chimney, 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 purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours.
This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. -
Silly, little man. 😄
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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 pounds. Even granting that 'flying reindeer' (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal amount, 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 - to 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 spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each.
In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths 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 now.
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I'm glad my daughter doesn't have a turf wars account! 😢
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Wow! Way to over analyze Santa Claus and ruin it for me😥
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Killjoy. Lol
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...Dang
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Lol. I love this post!
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How long did it take you to figure out the math? And killjoy... I was hoping for a present this year 😿
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"four times the weight of queen elizabeth" LOL
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You killed Santa!😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
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Duh reindeer have built in heat shields just like those spacecraft you mentioned 😜
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Nosebleed.
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Santa and his reindeer are from krypton.... So he can move at the speed of sound BOOM Santa is back baby!
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Guess who's getting coal this year.
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It's called magic, Even 6 year olds know that ok well no not all six year olds ... 😔😉😁
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I saw Santa in the mall last weekend. That's proof that he's real. And after reading all of that info that you took the time to dig up, I am coming to the conclusion that you need to go get a girlfriend.
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Screw you! Long live 🎅
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vwtech wrote:
To the ER with you. INFIDEL!Duh reindeer have built in heat shields just like those spacecraft you mentioned 😜
✊❤🎄7⃣1⃣🎅🚌
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Turf🐑Warrior wrote:
The mall santas are just the real Santa's helpers to allow him to be alot of places at once so he can save his real magic for his yearly flight.I saw Santa in the mall last weekend. That's proof that he's real. And after reading all of that info that you took the time to dig up, I am coming to the conclusion that you need to go get a girlfriend.
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I never liked Santa. He would alwase brake in my house, steal all my cookies and milk, then leave big boxes under the dogs tree.
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Of course Father Christmas exists, and he can visit arbitrarily as many children has he pleases in as short a time as is convenient, barring mid-air reindeer pile- ups. The reason is that Father Christmas is a Macroscopic Quantum Object.
Let me explain. It is a feature of the quantum world that particles - such as electrons - can be in more than one place at a time, provided that nobody is watching. In a famous experiment known as the "two-slit" test, physicists have been able to fire a single particle at an opaque plate with two separate slits in it. The diffraction pattern seen on the other side of the slits suggests that the particle passes through both holes at once and interacts with itself. However, if detectors are placed at the slits, to see which slit the particle passes through, the diffraction pattern disappears, and the particle can be seen to pass through either one slit or the other, but not both.
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The key lies in the fact of observation. Provided that nobody seeks to measure the effect with more than a certain amount of precision, the particle keeps all its options open. But if someone looks too closely, the particle makes its choice. In the language of physics, its quantum wavefunction collapses.
Now, let's think of Father Christmas as a particle, obeying the rules of the quantum world. Following the logic of the two-slit experiment, it is perfectly possible for him to visit all the good children of the world simultaneously, provided that he does so unseen. If he is spotted, his wavefunction will collapse and he will be revealed as your Dad with a comedy beard after all. The quantum nature of Father Christmas explains the taboo against seeing him do his job.
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Schrödinger's Santa. 👍 Nice.
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Lol very nice I enjoyed this thread. Best not tell my 3yr old daughter though😉
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✖₳ɠⅇŋƬ ℱ₳¢ℓøŋ✖ wrote:
👆👆Guess who's getting coal this year.
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Come to Australia sadsam! Ill get you a root for xmas.
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I just read that santa died and I saw him die on the tv
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Haha damn that was hilarious 👍 good read sir!
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