2007-12-26 01:51:24 · 20 answers · asked by Helen the Hellion 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I've invited him over for a soccer match in Amsterdam by Ajax, they play in red and white so many fans will wear Santa suits
and he won't attract a blind bit of attention.
I thought he deserved a bit of R&R for a while here in Amsterdam before returning to Missus Claus and sinking back into married 'bliss' for the largest part of new year.
2007-12-26 07:56:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ohhh, I heard about that. Not many people know this, but Mrs. Claus told me that he would be traveling to Antarctica for a little after christmas vacation. He won't be home until November of 2008. Don't worry, I'm sure he's okay. =)
2007-12-26 09:55:40 · answer #2 · answered by Doppel Gänger 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Probably still delivering presents to the other side of the world. He was held up for eating too many cookies and drinking too much milk. Pit stops.
2007-12-26 09:55:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Don't show THIS to your children! This is my analysis of Christmas and Santa.
1. No known species of reindeer can fly. However, there are over 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 over 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. But since Santa does not (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - roughly 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau.
At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that is 108 million homes. One presumes there is at least one good child in each.
3. Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different times zones and the rotation of the Earth, assuming he travels from east to west (which seems logical).
This works out to 967.74 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 in the sleigh and move on to the next house.
Assuming that each of these 108 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 approx. 92,547,025 miles (land surface area of the Earth) which means about .86 miles per household. This would be about 92.9 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and ect..
This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 832 miles per second, or 4,000 times the speed of sound. For the purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle on earth, the Helios 2, travels at a pokey 43.6 miles per second - or 157,077 miles per hour. 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 then a medium-sized Lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 378,000 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight.
On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more then 300 pounds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" could pull ten times the normal amount, the job could not be completed with eight, or even nine.
We would need 252,000 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 415,800 tons. Again, for comparison - this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.
5. 415,800 tons traveling at 853 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere.
Just some numbers: 415,800 tons is 37,720,741 kilograms. This equals to 3,849,055 kilograms when take away the gravity of the Earth (for the purposes of calculating the heat generated). 853 miles per second is 1,372,770 meters/sec (velocity). This equates to 3,626,767,210,000,000,000 Joules, or 3.6 exajoules. For comparison, this is equal to 866,818,167 tons of TNT.
The lead reindeer will absorb 57,787.8778 Atomic bombs worth of energy. Each. Per second. 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, on the other hand, will be subjected to gravitational forces exceeding 138,000 times that of the earth, or "G"'s. Fighter pilots experience 14 G's in the fastest fighter jets in the US Armed Forces.
A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by approximately 31,044 pounds of force.
In conclusion, if Santa ever did deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he is dead now.
2007-12-26 09:55:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Out shopping for next year, getting the deals on next christmas's gifts.
2007-12-26 09:55:40 · answer #5 · answered by Kourtney M 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
At the strip club handing out candy canes !!! ;0)
2007-12-26 09:54:14 · answer #6 · answered by Kimberley V 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Maybe you should just check in later with him. He just sleeping this is his busy time of the year.
2007-12-26 18:52:12 · answer #7 · answered by MJ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably in antartica staying away from mrs claus due to pms
2007-12-26 10:07:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have him tied up in my basement until he agrees to bring me everything I have asked for, for the last 24 years....
2007-12-26 09:55:14 · answer #9 · answered by ~*Yesterdays Promises*~ 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He's out with Mrs Clause's sister.
2007-12-26 09:54:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋