Track Santa!
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he wouldn't show up on radar he is going too quickly.There are approximately two billion children in the world. Apparently Santa doesn’t visit Jewish Muslim or Buddhist children so we can reduce the number to around 400 million. Let’s say on average there are three children to every household. So Santa has over 133 million homes to visit in one night!
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Assuming that Santa travels from east to west and has to cross over various time zones, I reckon he has around 31 hours of Christmas Day in which to deliver all the presents. That makes 1,157.4 houses to call on every single second.
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So Santa has approximately 0.006324 of a second to park his sleigh on the roof, scramble down the chimney, put the prezies in the stocking, drink the sherry and scoff the mince pie so thoughtfully left out for him, clamber back up the chimney, jump back into his sleigh and zoom off to his next customer.
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Let’s say that these 133 million houses that Santa visits are evenly distributed with a distance of say 50 feet between each one plus a return trip down the chimney of an average 20 feet the total distance traveled will be in the region of 9,041,608,800 feet or 1,712,425 miles or 71 circumnavigation’s of the earth
If the Wright brothers plane, The Flyer were reliable enough to fly the same distance at its top speed of 30 mph the flight would have taken six and a half years.
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Therefore the average speed Santa travels on Christmas night will be over 55 thousand miles an hour or 276 time faster that the fastest ever Ferrari. In other words the distance Santa travels in one second would take a Ferrari over four and a half-hours flat out.
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Now whilst Mr. Claus is popping in on all these children he is also scoffing the mince pies and sherry. Maybe he’d be lucky to find these treats at half of the homes he calls on. We’re talking 66,500,000 mince pies and 66,500,000 glasses of sherry. Approximately eight glasses to a bottle would mean Father Christmas knocking back just under 8.5 million bottles of sherry. And if each mince pie weighed approximately 2 oz Santa’s total intake of mince pies would be about 3,700 tons.
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If each prezzie weighed in at around 5lb there would be 892,857 tons of presents on the back of Santa’s sleigh. Add that to the 3,700 tons that Santa has scoffed in mince pies, plus around another 500 tons of sherry and another couple of tons for the sleigh itself you’d have a combined weight of nearly 900,000 tons or the Equivalent of 160,714 African Elephants.
However, considering that for each 30lbs of prezzies Santa drops off he is gaining 2oz in mince pie and just over a quarter of an ounce in sherry. So, by the end of the Christmas day he will have displaced around 896,000 tons or the equivalent of 13 QE2’s.
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So, to sum things up, we have a fat jolly bloke dressed in red whizzing around the planet in a sleigh pulled by six reindeers at around Mach 82. He is delivering a pile of prezzies, which would fill Trafalgar Square at least a couple of dozen times for half the houses in the world, some, of which don’t even have chimneys.
Paul, what are you trying to say???
He must be very big, strong and quick!
This is the more scientific version:
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.
There are 2 billion children in the world (persons under 18). But since Santa does not (appear to) handle the Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu and Jewish children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 million, according to the Population Reference Bureau. At an average (consensus) rate of 3.5 children per 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 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, leap into the sleigh and move on to the next house.
Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops is 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 0.78 miles in between each 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 the reindeer, 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, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second. It is worth noting that a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles a hour.
The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element to the doubtful equation. 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, Santa could not do the job with eight or even nine. He would need 214,200 reindeer. Naturally this increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for the purposes of comparison, this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth luxury liner.
353,430 tons travelling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance. This velocity will heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as spacecraft re-entering the atmospheric interface of the planet. The lead pair of reindeer will each absorb 14.4 QUINTILLION joules of energy PER SECOND - EACH. In short, they will burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake. We estimate that the entire reindeer team will vaporise inside 4.26 thousandths of a second.
Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.07 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.
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.
There are 2 billion children in the world (persons under 18). But since Santa does not (appear to) handle the Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu and Jewish children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 million, according to the Population Reference Bureau. At an average (consensus) rate of 3.5 children per 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 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, leap into the sleigh and move on to the next house.
Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops is 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 0.78 miles in between each 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 the reindeer, 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, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second. It is worth noting that a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles a hour.
The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element to the doubtful equation. 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, Santa could not do the job with eight or even nine. He would need 214,200 reindeer. Naturally this increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for the purposes of comparison, this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth luxury liner.
353,430 tons travelling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance. This velocity will heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as spacecraft re-entering the atmospheric interface of the planet. The lead pair of reindeer will each absorb 14.4 QUINTILLION joules of energy PER SECOND - EACH. In short, they will burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake. We estimate that the entire reindeer team will vaporise inside 4.26 thousandths of a second.
Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.07 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.
lol , a church guy came to our school and read that before.... i was pretty young, and it kinda destroyed my faith. restored now after the tracking website
I lost santa when as a kid I used my 100 in 1 electronics kit to make a aluminum foil door sensor, when my parents came in to get my "sack" (a pillow case) the buzzer went off, shattered dream! Damn my curiosity!
We had it read to use in school too, was really interesting listening to all the facts!
We had it read to use in school too, was really interesting listening to all the facts!
What would the FF be without your posts Paul your more in depth ones never fail to give me a headache!
MERRY CHRISTMAS PEOPLE!
your more in depth ones never fail to give me a headache! MERRY CHRISTMAS PEOPLE!
yeah i am pretty into facts and such myself, thought it was pretty interesting... but i was distracted by the thought of the person who worked it all out!
Right, Ringo Star has just said that santa is on time and is crossing the channel now, which to me seems a little fast... but all is good so far
Got my maglite and binoculars ready, we had the fire on earlier, hope he doesn't burn his feet!
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