How old are you and do you still believe in Santa
2006-12-20 08:30:25 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
I'm ten and 10 is old enough to know Santa Claus doesn't exist!
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 bacteria, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.
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 Central Demography. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children pre household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.
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 all 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 75.5 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 the 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.
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 321,000 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 ammount, 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.
353,000 tons travelling 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 flames 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.
2006-12-20 08:48:14 · answer #1 · answered by ................................ 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Well, I am kinda at that age where I stop believing. Anyway, I do beleive that Santa did exist. A long time ago St Nick (Santa) exist. But, I love Santa. I believe he is looking down upon us right now!!!
2006-12-20 08:57:33 · answer #2 · answered by Joseph C 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If I quit believing in Santa, I won't get any Christmas presents. That goes for the tooth fairy, and the Easter bunny as well. I'll never quit believing as long as I get presents. Santa, you do know my address don't you? I have been very good all year long. LOL!
2006-12-20 08:38:51 · answer #3 · answered by lynda_is 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
definite i position self belief in Santa. I did at the same time as i replaced right into a baby then i did not for a lengthy time period. yet now i understand there's a Santa. the authentic Santa got here to our residing house one 3 hundred and sixty 5 days lower than the effect of alcohol off his azz for sure and knocked over a group of stuff and humped my sister. He borrowed $40 money from me because he reported his reindeer were too lower than the effect of alcohol to fly. He promised to deliver me the money and under no circumstances did. He had the nerve to come back decrease back a pair years later and ended up taking my sister with him. we've been decrease to and fro in court docket this kind of large number of circumstances and albeit i'm sick of the finished mess. He can save the money I basically choose my sister decrease back.
2016-12-01 00:31:02 · answer #4 · answered by england 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't give you prove that he's real but I can say that I do believe in Santa because he's not only a gift giving person for children, but he also symbolizes Christmas. He shows the spirit of Christmas the reason why families tell there kids about him was because he gives the kids a reason to be good and in "the spirit of Christmas." Even if people say they don't believe in him, I think they really do because he represents spirit
2006-12-20 08:35:37 · answer #5 · answered by dolphinswimmer23 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
santa a *****, ohhh so many christmases ive been screwed over, i need to get him back, im just missing a few little things:1- his actual location;2- an army of people as angry as i am; and 3- a couple of harriers and a-bombs, SANTA WILL PAY!!!!!!!
2006-12-20 08:39:33 · answer #6 · answered by dean! 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no i don't believe in santa as u get older u realise that santa is your parents
2006-12-20 08:37:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm 14 and I do believe in him, but I don't believe that he still comes to me. After all, there has been no proof that he does exist, nor any proof that he doesn't.
2016-01-16 12:52:33 · answer #8 · answered by Paige-Octaivia 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We should mind Christmas not Santa , Christmas is NOT FOR SANTA. Christmas is the day that Jesus born . Seriously ? In my whole life THERE IS NO SANTA's appearance . SANTA DOESN'T EXCIST . Because if he does . I should see him on Christmas eve . I've been kind since 3-12 but SAD TO SAY THERES IS NO SANTA IN REAL :D
And iM 15 btw
2015-01-13 09:56:23 · answer #9 · answered by Lee 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No i don't beleive in SANTA im 16.
2006-12-20 08:34:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋