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| .p.jm@see_my_sig_for_address.com 2005-12-17, 1:21 pm |
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Some of you might already have seen this, but here it is
anyway:
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 &
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 that
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.
That
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.
4)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 do at lease once every 31 hours, plus eating
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 pokey 27.4 miles/second. A
conventional
reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles/hour.
5)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 300lb. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see #1) can
pull
10 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.
6)353,000 tons traveling 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 vaporized within .00426 of a second. Meanwhile, Santa, will be
subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity.
A 250
lb. Santa, being very conservative in terms of guessing Santa's
weight,
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.
In conclusion: Santa does not exist.
--
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Paul ( pjm @ pobox . com ) - remove spaces to email me
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| Bob Pietrangelo 2005-12-17, 5:21 pm |
| .................no my bah-humbug friend...........Santa is just magical!!!
My 4 year old just told me that about a half hour ago and he is way to young
to be a liar or a hack. Even though he did slam my finger with a hammer
last night. We were tacking train tracks to a board. Maybe he is a hack
with a hammer. I hope he gets better at that!
--
Bob Pietrangelo
bobp3@comcast.net
bob@comfort-solution.biz
www.comfort-solution.biz
On Time or Your Service Call is FREE
Preventive Maintenance Specialist
<.p.jm@see_my_sig_for_address.com> wrote in message
news:dre8q1lv9ok2ua8evrpt8pt471c4jbes0l@4ax.com...
>
> Some of you might already have seen this, but here it is
> anyway:
>
> 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 &
> 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 that
> 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.
> That
> 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.
>
> 4)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 do at lease once every 31 hours, plus eating
> 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 pokey 27.4 miles/second. A
> conventional
> reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles/hour.
>
> 5)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 300lb. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see #1) can
> pull
> 10 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.
>
> 6)353,000 tons traveling 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 vaporized within .00426 of a second. Meanwhile, Santa, will be
> subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity.
> A 250
> lb. Santa, being very conservative in terms of guessing Santa's
> weight,
> 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.
>
> In conclusion: Santa does not exist.
>
>
>
> --
>
> Click here every day to feed an animal that needs you today !!!
>
> http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/
>
> Paul ( pjm @ pobox . com ) - remove spaces to email me
> 'Some days, it's just not worth chewing through the restraints.'
> 'With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.'
> HVAC/R program for Palm PDA's
> Free demo now available online http://pmilligan.net/palm/
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| .p.jm@see_my_sig_for_address.com 2005-12-17, 5:21 pm |
| On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 15:41:44 -0500, "Bob Pietrangelo"
<bobp3@comcast.net> wrote:
>................no my bah-humbug friend...........Santa is just magical!!!
>My 4 year old just told me that about a half hour ago and he is way to young
>to be a liar or a hack.
Good point.
> Even though he did slam my finger with a hammer
>last night.
Probably because you were bad.
> We were tacking train tracks to a board. Maybe he is a hack
>with a hammer. I hope he gets better at that!
Nah.
I envy him these next few weeks, Bob. I think his Daddy loves
him a whole lot.
And try to stop being bad, or I'll tell him to whack you with
the hammer again !
Treasure these days, my friend. Treasure them well and dear,
every moment and every instant of them. Etch them in your mind so you
always have them with you, all your life.
Best to ya.
--
Click here every day to feed an animal that needs you today !!!
http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/
Paul ( pjm @ pobox . com ) - remove spaces to email me
'Some days, it's just not worth chewing through the restraints.'
'With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.'
HVAC/R program for Palm PDA's
Free demo now available online http://pmilligan.net/palm/
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| Derek Broughton 2005-12-17, 5:21 pm |
| ..p.jm@see_my_sig_for_address.com wrote:
>
> Some of you might already have seen this, but here it is
> anyway:
This is clearly not one of Nick's - I don't see a single line of BASIC.
> 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.
I heard a few weeks ago that some people believe the Giant Beaver (up to
800kg, and believed extinct thousands of years ago) may still exist in
northern Canada.
--
derek
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| .p.jm@see_my_sig_for_address.com 2005-12-17, 5:21 pm |
| On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 16:58:04 -0400, Derek Broughton
<news@pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>.p.jm@see_my_sig_for_address.com wrote:
>
>
>This is clearly not one of Nick's - I don't see a single line of BASIC.
He finally made the big switch to pure modern VW
( VaporWare ) :-)
>
>
>I heard a few weeks ago that some people believe the Giant Beaver (up to
>800kg, and believed extinct thousands of years ago) may still exist in
>northern Canada.
--
Click here every day to feed an animal that needs you today !!!
http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/
Paul ( pjm @ pobox . com ) - remove spaces to email me
'Some days, it's just not worth chewing through the restraints.'
'With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.'
HVAC/R program for Palm PDA's
Free demo now available online http://pmilligan.net/palm/
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| Harry Chickpea 2005-12-17, 7:21 pm |
| Derek Broughton <news@pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>.p.jm@see_my_sig_for_address.com wrote:
>
>
>This is clearly not one of Nick's - I don't see a single line of BASIC.
>
>
>I heard a few weeks ago that some people believe the Giant Beaver (up to
>800kg, and believed extinct thousands of years ago) may still exist in
>northern Canada.
Are you suggesting that we were misinformed as kids, and that Santa's
sleigh is really pulled by flying giant beavers?
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| SolarFlare 2005-12-17, 7:21 pm |
| King Dong needs to have sex with somebody too.
"Derek Broughton" <news@pointerstop.ca> wrote in
message news:snae73-a17.ln1@news.pointerstop.ca...
> I heard a few weeks ago that some people believe the
Giant Beaver (up to
> 800kg, and believed extinct thousands of years ago)
may still exist in
> northern Canada.
> --
> derek
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| Geoman^^ 2005-12-18, 12:21 pm |
| I may have to kill file you for this one Paul, or send my buddy the Elf with
an attitude to your home............
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| Geoman^^ 2005-12-18, 12:21 pm |
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"SolarFlare" <sfl.are@hot.mail.invalid> wrote in message
news:tYmdnbda_bx9CjneRVn-hw@golden.net...
> King Dong needs to have sex with somebody too.
>
That's a disgusting thought.......
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| John P.. Bengi 2005-12-18, 4:21 pm |
| What are giant beavers for then?
"Geoman^^" <Geo2> wrote in message
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>
> "SolarFlare" <sfl.are@hot.mail.invalid> wrote in
message
> news:tYmdnbda_bx9CjneRVn-hw@golden.net...
>
> That's a disgusting thought.......
>
>
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| ~^Johnny^~ 2005-12-19, 3:21 am |
| On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 21:13:07 GMT, .p.jm@see_my_sig_for_address.com
wrote:
>
> He finally made the big switch to pure modern VW
> ( VaporWare ) :-)
VW Basic... isn't that what Bosch programs their ECU's with?
--
-john
wide-open at throttle dot info
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| TheDoc 2005-12-21, 11:21 pm |
| Retard
<.p.jm@see_my_sig_for_address.com> wrote in message
news:dre8q1lv9ok2ua8evrpt8pt471c4jbes0l@4ax.com...
>
> Some of you might already have seen this, but here it is
> anyway:
>
> 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 &
> 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 that
> 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.
> That
> 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.
>
> 4)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 do at lease once every 31 hours, plus eating
> 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 pokey 27.4 miles/second. A
> conventional
> reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles/hour.
>
> 5)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 300lb. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see #1) can
> pull
> 10 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.
>
> 6)353,000 tons traveling 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 vaporized within .00426 of a second. Meanwhile, Santa, will be
> subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity.
> A 250
> lb. Santa, being very conservative in terms of guessing Santa's
> weight,
> 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.
>
> In conclusion: Santa does not exist.
>
>
>
> --
>
> Click here every day to feed an animal that needs you today !!!
>
> http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/
>
> Paul ( pjm @ pobox . com ) - remove spaces to email me
> 'Some days, it's just not worth chewing through the restraints.'
> 'With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.'
> HVAC/R program for Palm PDA's
> Free demo now available online http://pmilligan.net/palm/
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