Is There a Santa Claus? A Scientific Analysis BY AL GORE! No not really...
1. No Known species of reindeer can fly. However, there are 300,000 speicies of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, that does not completely rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has seen.
2. There are an estimated 2 Billion children (Persons under 18) in the world. But since Santa doesn't - apparently - handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload 15% of the total - a mere 378 million, according to Population Cencus Bureau. At an average (cencus) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One Persumes there is at least one good child in each home.
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 snack have been left, get back up the chimney, get into the sleigh, and move on to the next house.
Assuming that these 91,800,000 stops are evenly distributed around earth (which of course, we know to be false, but for purposes of our calculations e will accept), we are now talking about .76 miles per houshold, a total trip of 75,500,000 miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours. This means Santa's sled is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times faster than the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made probe vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a pokey 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 invariabaly described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting the ability of 'flying reindeer; (see point 1) to pull pherhaps 10 times the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight or even nine. We need more. Actually, we need 214,191 more, or a total of 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not counting the weigh of the sleigh - to 353,420 tons. Again, for comparison, this is 4 times the weight of the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth.
5. This 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creats enourmous air resistance, which will heat up the reindeer up in the same fashion as a space craft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14,300,000,000,000,000,000 (14.3 quintillion) jouls of energy. Per Second. Each. In short, they will almost instantaneously burst into flames, exposing the reindeer behind them, who will repeat the process, and they will
also create deafining sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized withing 4.26 thousandthd of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to the acceleration 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.
Ending the conclusion that Santa would be dead by now.
Thanks to the person who made these conclusions
