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Phil,
May be the Santa learned some tricks from managers and CEO to delegate work
to associate Santa, baby Santa (like baby bell and Ma bell relationship)....
;-)
Have a wonderful holiday everybody... if you drink enough, Santa will come
on time (flying)..
Cheers!
                                   jk
At 09:04 AM 12/17/99 EST, you wrote:
>Hi Technetsters -
>Just where would this world be without engineers?  In your work and in your
>life, try not to overanalyse things.
>Happy Holidays to all.
>Phil Zarrow
>ITM, Inc.
>Durham, NH  USA
>www.ITM-SMT.com
>
>  Is There A 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 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.
>
>      I can't wait to question my parents!
>
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