1. No known species of reindeer can fly, but there are 300,000 species of living organims yet to be classified. Although most of these are insects and bacteria, this does not rule out flying reindeer.

2. According to the Population Refeence Bureau, 378 million people celebrate Christmas worldwide. With an average of 3.5 children per home, that's 91.8 million homes for Santa to visit.

3. Thanks to different time zones, Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, assuming he travels east to west. This works out to 822.6 visits per second. That means for each celebrating household with at least one good child in it, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, place presents under the tree, eat the cookies and return to the sleigh.

4. Assuming that all 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed throughout the earth, the total trip time will be 75.5 million miles. That means Santa's sleigh must move at 650 miles per second, 3000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle on earth (the Ulysses space probe) moves at 27.4 miles per second.

5. Assuming that each child get nothing more than a medium-**** Lego set (weighing 2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying a payload of 321,300 tons, not counting jolly ol' Saint Nick himself.

6. A standard reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even if flying reindeer might pull 10 times more than a normal reindeer, Santa would need 214,200 reindeer to pull the sleigh. The reindeer, payload, Santa and sleigh would therefore weigh more than 353,430 tons. This is four times the weight of the Q.E. II cruise ship.

7. This 353,430 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates tremendous air resistance, heating the reindeer in the same manner as a spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would therefore absorb 14.3 quintillion joule of energy, per second, each.

8. The lead reindeer, as a result will burst into flames, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating massive sonic booms in their wakes. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 0.00426 seconds. Santa will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500 times greater than gravity. Assuming that Santa weighs 250 pounds, he would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,375,000 pounds of centrifugal force.

Overrated_Hero

Where's that from?

The second one was The Pagemaster. I loved that movie.

I don't know what the first one is, but it sounds interesting. Tell me when you know.

There is no .Genetic_Code

Oh dear God.

One of those answers mentions Santa Seekers.

I Googled it.

I got this: http://seeker.searchforsanta.com/

[QUOTE="Drakorain"]

No pics? And I am not this guy! Jeez. Are all new users suspected ban-dodgers here?

The_Ish

Only if they are trolling or if they know how to use the forums too well.

I use a lot of forums. They are all the same.

But I'm not trolling. Am I?

He is, and quite hardcore I say..

luisen123

Interestingly, I just saw the last episode of Death Note today. That picture was hilarious.:lol:

[QUOTE="Drakorain"][QUOTE="tycoonmike"]

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I don't see how something that can be disproven can be higher on the fact scale than something that can't be disproven. We could get into all sorts of arguments about whether or not this is true, but it can be proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I, tycoonmike, typed this response to your post and posted it on Gamespot. However, it can't be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt, that life on Earth originated as the result of evolution. If it could, then why are there still theists who claim otherwise?

tycoonmike

Beyond a shadow of a doubt? But what if we're in a Matrix, and you and your post don't exist?

By scientific standards, I have to keep that possibility open, no matter how ridiculously improbable. I.e, facts do not exist.

This is the argument that was foretold by the nonexistant post you quoted. I agree with you completely. I am not about to debate whether or not I exist at all, however.

Yeah. . . . .we'll put that in the "ridiculously improbable" pile.:P

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I don't see how something that can be disproven can be higher on the fact scale than something that can't be disproven. We could get into all sorts of arguments about whether or not this is true, but it can be proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I, tycoonmike, typed this response to your post and posted it on Gamespot. However, it can't be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt, that life on Earth originated as the result of evolution. If it could, then why are there still theists who claim otherwise?

tycoonmike

Beyond a shadow of a doubt? But what if we're in a Matrix, and you and your post don't exist?

By scientific standards, I have to keep that possibility open, no matter how ridiculously improbable. I.e, facts do not exist.

That doesn't mean it isn't credible, though, and scientific theories are regarded higher than facts... zakkro

By scientific standards, facts do not exist.

[QUOTE="Drakorain"]

What was the other guy's avatar? I have a thing for dragons.

The_Ish

A dragon.

You god damned impostor. :x

Edit: Actually, that used to be his avatar. He also had a thing for dragons. His last avatar was some old guy I couldn't recognize but have probably heard of.

No pics? And I am not this guy! Jeez. Are all new users suspected ban-dodgers here?