Is Santa real or is he not?

Answer 1

How old are you? Well, regardless, there is a Santa because we have all learned about him throughout the ages. Funny thing is, he looks a lot like the people in "your neck of the woods", if you catch my meaning.

Answer 2

That really depends on whether you believe that reality impacts perception, or perception creates reality. Millions, if not billions of people around the world believe in Santa Claus in one form or another - so in an esoteric sense, at the very least, he "exists" as a concept. Is there a jolly fat man in a red suit who slides down your chimney on Christmas Eve every year? Who knows...

Prove to me that there isn't. :)

Answer 3

He must be real I am 22 and I still found a present behind the sofa that nobody has claimed they bought me & I have asked all of them. I have never even seen it available in the shops or ebay since I got it.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

Well,
I am close to 60 and I certainly still believe in the SPIRIT and meaning of Santa Claus. And what he/ it represents.

Please take the time to read this link

Merry Christmas

Answer 6

There is no Santa that flies around the world and gives presents to everyone.

If you believe in Santa, he is here.

Answer 7

He is real in my heart, forever and ever until I'm 109.

Answer 8

REAL IN A SENSE... A REAL WAY TO MAKE SOME FORGET THE REAL REASON OF THE HOLIDAY

Answer 9

Santas not real? :(

Answer 10

Let the power of my enchanted ring enlighten you...THE COSMOS IS FULL OF WONDER AND AWE. SANTA CLAUS (A.K.A. SAINT NICHOLAS A.K.A. KRIS KINGLE) WAS BORN A RICH KID IN TURKEY AROUND 300 A.D. IT WAS SAID HE WAS A GENEROUS MAN WITH HIS WEALTH. HE WAS SELECTED AS BISHOP OF MYRA AND SERVED ON THE COUNCIL OF NICEA WHERE THE BIBLE WAS ASSEMBLED. AROUND 1100 A.D. SOME SAILORS FACINATED WITH HIS LIFE MOVED HIS REMAINS TO ITALY. SAINT NICHOLAS POPULARITY GREW TO A POINT WHERE IT GOT MINGLED IN WITH EUROPEAN PAGAN LEGENDS. GERMANIC COUNTRIES FUSED THEIR PAGAN VIKING god ODEN WITH SAINT NICHOLAS. (ODEN WAS THOUGHT TO RIDE THROUGH THE NIGHT SKY ON HORSEBACK TO DECIDE WHO LIVED AND WHO DIED). SO SAINT NICHOLAS WENT FROM A THIN MIDDLE EASTERN LOOKING MAN TO A FAT WHITE GUY WITH ROSY CHEEKS. IT WASN'T UNTIL THE LATE 1800S AND EARLY 1900S IN AMERICA WHEN SANTA CLAUS EVOLVED INTO THE RED AND WHITE SUIT WEARING FAT GUY. THE ARTIST THAT CREATED THE PRESENT DAY IMAGE OF SANTA CLAUS WORKED FOR COCA-COLA....
In brightest day, in darkest night
No evil shall escape my sight
Let those who worship evil's might
Beware my power, GL Supreme's light!