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2006-10-18 01:30:22 · 31 answers · asked by R M 1 in News & Events Media & Journalism

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yes, im having lumch with him at the moment!! coorrr.... he's fat!!

2006-10-18 01:33:26 · answer #1 · answered by Ray 2 · 0 1

Dear Editor,
I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says "If you see it in The Sun it's so." Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia O'Hanlon,
115 West 95th Street,
New York City

Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love, and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias'. There would be no childlike faith, then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fill the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, not even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, cold tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view - and picture the supernatural beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!

Editorial Page, New York Sun, 1897

2006-10-18 01:33:03 · answer #2 · answered by knoWall 4 · 3 1

If the Santa "Clause" was taken out of Xmas, it would save parents a lot of money.
Ahh! Just kidding. Children's presents are often cheaper than adults' and give more pleasure.

2006-10-18 02:35:29 · answer #3 · answered by Mart 2 · 0 0

R U kidding me?
santa is about as real as me being able to jump from the earth to moon.
Yeah, and the frickin Easter Bunny is real too, they both hang out with the tooth fairy in Fantasy Land in Disney World!

De De De!!

2006-10-18 02:13:44 · answer #4 · answered by Bad Example 1 · 0 0

santa is the magic of Christmas that brings hope and joy to many people the sparkle in a childs eye santa will always be real to the people who believe how special that he exists to bring life to so many people happy holidays and three cheers for old saint nick

2006-10-18 03:46:02 · answer #5 · answered by angel afraid and sad 3 · 0 0

Yes of course he is he lives in lapland with Mrs Clause.

2006-10-18 01:41:53 · answer #6 · answered by momof3 7 · 1 0

"Please find below a scientific investigation into Santa Claus.

1) No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are3 00,000 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 & 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. This is due 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/second.

This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has .001 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/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 & etc.

So Santa's sleigh must be moving at 650 miles/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/second. A conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles/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 lb.), 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 lb. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see #1) could pull10 TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do the job with 8, or even 9 reindeer.; We need 214,200. This increases the payload - not counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. This is four times the weight of the ocean-liner Queen Elizabeth.

5) 353,000 tons travelling at 650 miles/second creates enormous air resistance. This will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as a 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 vaporised within .00426 of a second. Meanwhile, Santa will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-LB Santa (seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 lb. of force.

If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead now. "

2006-10-18 01:40:26 · answer #7 · answered by SilverSongster 4 · 0 2

Yes. He lives in children's imaginations made real by their parents and society. A bit like God really.

2006-10-18 01:38:59 · answer #8 · answered by Presea 4 · 0 2

Yes.

2006-10-18 01:41:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

Of course!

2006-10-18 01:40:24 · answer #10 · answered by name. 2 · 0 0

Yes!

2006-10-18 01:38:00 · answer #11 · answered by couchP56 6 · 1 1

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