[Sesquipedalian]

http://www.noradsanta.org/

[Levyathan]

Weird, they have a Portuguese version. Who cares about Portuguese-speaking countries?

[Ryder P. Moses]

[Watches Styxx rape Levythan with a shovel]

[Levyathan]

At least spell it right, damnit.

[Ryder P. Moses]

You spelled it wrong, why should I bother?

[Levyathan]

Maybe because I wanted it like this?

[NeoHunter]

Hmmm....

[Ryder P. Moses]

And I want a harem of supermodels. Some things, you just can't change 'em whenever you like, dude, and the English language is one of 'em.

[diamondgeezer]

According to NORAD, the Big Man is currently somewhere over Colorado Springs. Hope the guys and girls there are all asleep

[Setekh]

Does Santa exist?
 
There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist (except maybe in Japan) religions, this reduces the  workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the Population Reference Bureau). At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming that there is at least one good child in each. Santa has about 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 967.7 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and get on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we  know to be false, but will accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops or breaks. This means Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second - 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles per hour. The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized Lego set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousand tons, not counting Santa himself. On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that the "flying" reindeer could pull ten times the normal amount, the job can't be done with eight or even nine of them--Santa would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch).
 
600,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance--this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team would be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reached the fifth house on his trip.
 
Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 m.p.s. in .001 seconds, would be subjected to acceleration forces of 17,500 g's. A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of pink goo.
 
Therefore, if Santa did exist, he's dead now. Merry Christmas.

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by Ryder P. Moses
[Watches Styxx rape Levythan with a shovel]

Originally posted by Levyathan
At least spell it right, damnit.

Do you two know each other?

[Nuclear1]

Originally posted by Sandwich




Do you two know each other?

sand, good idea to sit this one out....

[vyper]

Originally posted by Setekh

Maybe he's omnipotent. How else could be know who's naughty and nice?

[Levyathan]

Originally posted by Ryder P. Moses
Some things, you just can't change 'em whenever you like, dude, and the English language is one of 'em.

You're assuming too much. Who ever said it was in English?

Originally posted by Sandwich
Do you two know each other?

I just can't stand it when people misspell my name. It's like if I said Sandwitch... you wouldn't like that, now would you?

[diamondgeezer]

Setekh's here? Have I missed something? *waves*

[Styxx]

Originally posted by Ryder P. Moses
[Watches Styxx rape Levythan with a shovel]

Nah. And who are you again?

[Levyathan]

Stryke 9. Shrike has temporarily banned him.

[Ryder P. Moses]

His turn will come. I am not yet defeated, nor shall I be.

[diamondgeezer]

Let me know when his turn is about to come, so I can get ye olde popcorn in

[Ryder P. Moses]

When my vengeance comes, it will be swift as lightning, catching all unsuspecting. I will move with speed and deadliness of ninja, and none shall stop me from my goal. Not admin rights, not samurai, not even hall of swinging blades. Well, maybe hall of swinging blades. Which is why I bring dynamite.