Santa in mid air incident with 50's vintage warbird

Was bound to happen when you consider the physics (this has been around for years by the way but still amusing) –

Consider the following:

1) No known species of reindeer can fly….

to:

……- If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he’s dead now.

A post worthy of our own Alert Ken 😀

I hear Santa failed a checkride recently…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=50vE47DGEy4

In fairness that last one was probably Ryanairs’ fault, descending through uncontrolled airspace was bound to catch them out one day!:D

Nice one with the Starfighter pic!:)

The old guy’s getting accident prone, there was also this disaster a few years ago !

Im sure there is a replica on standby somewhere that can be used for a day.

Oh i don’t know, it’s obvious to me He has a tardis,;) no problem he just keeps going back in time until all the toys are with all the children. Just watch he will go back in time and fix the damage to the jet so it will be as if nothing has happend to it.;)

I get the impression that some people posting on this thread don’t believe in Father Christmas!

Yea, well there’s always a few people who believe silly conspiracy theories. If there was no Santa I’m sure it would have been on the news.

Peter

PS love the link

I get the impression that some people posting on this thread don’t believe in Father Christmas!

Rudolph is FOD !! 😀
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Don’t you mean FoOD? Mmmmm tasty!
Bah humbug! 😀

I’m guessing you got an A-A* in maths!

poor old Santa

No wonder some kids always miss seeing him during his short visit!

Very Good & Very Funny!
Thanks

Was bound to happen when you consider the physics (this has been around for years by the way but still amusing) –

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.

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, plus feeding and etc.

This means that Santa’s sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 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 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.

My day needed brightening. That has succeeded bigtime!:D

Adrian

Is there any speculation as to the cause of this ?

Mince pies and sherry perhaps …..

Rudolph is FOD !! 😀

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