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Post by LittleBoy footbag » 23 Dec 2004 10:37

Ok, if any of you are like me, go to this topic when you feel like something you can't describe and just go here to put what just came on to your mind.


I'll be first. Since I started this topic, I've been thinking:

If santa claus is really real, how can he reach all the children overnight even with timezones? Also, if he's keeping track of children, wouldn't that count as pedophelia?

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Post by slapdash21 » 23 Dec 2004 12:51

is it just me or are "awful and "awesome" both based on the same word? ("awe")

so wouldnt they mean basically the same thing? i guess they kinda do, but awful somehow got a negative conentation.
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Post by Seath » 23 Dec 2004 13:22

LittleBoy footbag wrote: If santa claus is really real, how can he reach all the children overnight even with timezones? Also, if he's keeping track of children, wouldn't that count as pedophelia?

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The Truth about Santa

After much research, we present the annual aeronautical engineers report on the theory of Santa:
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 (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.

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.

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.

If every one of the 91.8 million homes with good children were to put out a single chocolate chip cookie and an 8 ounce glass of 2% milk, the total calories (needless to say other vitamins and minerals) would be approximately 225 calories (100 for the cookie, give or take, and 125 for the milk, give or take). Multiplying the number of calories per house by the number of homes (225 x 91.8 x 1000000), we get the total number of calories Santa consumes that night, which is 20,655,000,000 calories. To break it down further, 1 pound is equal to 3500 calories. Dividing our total number of calories by the number of calories in a pound (20655000000 / 3500) and we get the number of pounds Santa gains, 5901428.6, which is 2950.7 tons.

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.

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 reentering 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.
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Post by LittleBoy footbag » 23 Dec 2004 13:34

If they say that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, who's there in Vegas to make sure that it stays there?

PS: Seath, thanks for that santa info...I've been looking for that for months!!!!!!


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Post by Tsiangkun » 23 Dec 2004 18:02

it's the same reason that kidnapping is a federal offense, while catnapping is seldom punishable by law, but I don't know what that reason is.

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Post by Spadrick » 23 Dec 2004 19:31

Seath, that made my night.

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Post by BainbridgeShred » 23 Dec 2004 19:42

is it just me or are "awful and "awesome" both based on the same word? ("awe")

so wouldnt they mean basically the same thing? i guess they kinda do, but awful somehow got a negative conentation.
"ful" comes from old English and is short for playful, thus one would be in awe of anything playful, and thus not positive necisarily.

I think it is also kind of the same thing with terriffic and that it can be used as "I had a terrific Christmas" or "There was a terrific murder over whose stocking was whose on Christmas eve."
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Post by BainbridgeShred » 23 Dec 2004 19:42

I love etymology... :oops:
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Post by Seath » 23 Dec 2004 19:51

FlexThis wrote:
Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway? Rediculous.
a parkway refers to the area the road goes through, usually it's a park or nature area, and the drive way is the means by which a car drives out of the garage usually :D I was thinking about that today too and I answered my own question haha.

Now that I write this i realise it's common knowledge... ah well :P


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Post by lightningbolt » 23 Dec 2004 20:07

Why are guys so diffcult?

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Post by zachatree » 23 Dec 2004 20:38

it just dont feel like xmas around here...

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Post by shredj » 23 Dec 2004 22:22

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Post by lightningbolt » 23 Dec 2004 23:17

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Post by mohkale » 24 Dec 2004 02:03

I wish it was May already. I could play outside.

I can't wait to open chrismas presents. That's all I really care about in christmas. That, and eating alot.

Why haven't the DVDs arrived that I ordered almost two weeks ago.

Why does my sister tell me to go to the living room to watch the christmas peace declaration with her. She's not my mom, and I'm 24 years old (she's 20, but ill-tempered). I'm more emancipated than that. Wow, such a big word.
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Post by slapdash21 » 24 Dec 2004 06:28

shredj wrote:what do you call those little plastic thingies on the end of your shoelaces?
fuck, i knew at one point, but i cant remember now...
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