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Useless Fact #20: Only 9 minutes are spent by the average parent playing with his/her children on Christmas morning.
I know it's Christmas Eve, but I just thought I'd say
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
I have been feeling quite festive lately actually. Since school it has been non-stop work and i did last minute shopping like mad today, but that's besides the point. Anyway to shatter your holiday spirit here is something you've probably seen before [WARNING: Do NOT read if you believe in Santa Claus! You have been warned...learn from my mistake - my dreams were shattered the hard way :(]
- there are approximately 2x109 children (persons under 18) in the world
- Christians = 15% of the total, or 3.78x108 children
- average (census) rate: 3.5 children per household
- that's 1.08x108 homes, presuming that there is at least one good child in each
- Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work with (time zones and the rotation of the earth assuming travels east to west)
- This works out to 967.7 visits per second
- 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 each of the 1.08x108 stops is evenly distributed around the earth, total trip = 7.55x107 miles (not counting bathroom stops or breaks)
- This means Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second (3,000 times the speed of sound)
- For comparison: fastest man-made vehicle (the Ulysses space probe) moves at 27.4 mps, conventional Reindeer runs at 15 mph
- Assuming that each present is 2 lb, the sleigh is carrying over 5.0x105 tons, not counting Santa himself.
- On land, a conventional Reindeer can pull no more than 3.0x102 pounds
- Even if "flying" Reindeer could pull ten times the normal amount, the job can't be done with 8 or 9 of them - Santa would need 3.6x105
- This increases the mass another 5.4x104 tons
- 6.0x105 tons traveling at 650 mps creates enormous air resistance (this would heat up the Reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere)
- lead pair of Reindeer would absorb 1.43x1019 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
- Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 mps in 1.0x10-3 seconds, would be subjected to forces of 1.75x104 g's
- A 250 lb Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) 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, he's dead now. Merry Christmas.
- Q.E.D.
Anyhow I hope everyone enjoys their holidays lol. I might update more later.
-TyCH3
I know it's Christmas Eve, but I just thought I'd say
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
I have been feeling quite festive lately actually. Since school it has been non-stop work and i did last minute shopping like mad today, but that's besides the point. Anyway to shatter your holiday spirit here is something you've probably seen before [WARNING: Do NOT read if you believe in Santa Claus! You have been warned...learn from my mistake - my dreams were shattered the hard way :(]
- there are approximately 2x109 children (persons under 18) in the world
- Christians = 15% of the total, or 3.78x108 children
- average (census) rate: 3.5 children per household
- that's 1.08x108 homes, presuming that there is at least one good child in each
- Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work with (time zones and the rotation of the earth assuming travels east to west)
- This works out to 967.7 visits per second
- 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 each of the 1.08x108 stops is evenly distributed around the earth, total trip = 7.55x107 miles (not counting bathroom stops or breaks)
- This means Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second (3,000 times the speed of sound)
- For comparison: fastest man-made vehicle (the Ulysses space probe) moves at 27.4 mps, conventional Reindeer runs at 15 mph
- Assuming that each present is 2 lb, the sleigh is carrying over 5.0x105 tons, not counting Santa himself.
- On land, a conventional Reindeer can pull no more than 3.0x102 pounds
- Even if "flying" Reindeer could pull ten times the normal amount, the job can't be done with 8 or 9 of them - Santa would need 3.6x105
- This increases the mass another 5.4x104 tons
- 6.0x105 tons traveling at 650 mps creates enormous air resistance (this would heat up the Reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere)
- lead pair of Reindeer would absorb 1.43x1019 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
- Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 mps in 1.0x10-3 seconds, would be subjected to forces of 1.75x104 g's
- A 250 lb Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) 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, he's dead now. Merry Christmas.
- Q.E.D.
Anyhow I hope everyone enjoys their holidays lol. I might update more later.
-TyCH3