Exposing Santa Claus
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 6:26 am
He's not coming to town with math.
We all know Santa himself. A guy weighing 1 tonne and eats a shit ton of cookies and milk. However, is his actions possible in real life?
Short answer: no
Due to different timezones, he has 36 hours to work with and that's not enough to visit every house in the world, then drop a couple of gifts and leave. There are currently 1.6 billion children on this planet, but most Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu and Jewish children do not expect a visit from Saint Nick/Santa, there goes 85% of the children. All the remaining children live in 75 million houses. He has to move at 5,083,000 mph, which is hard but not impossible. He has to cover 122 million miles, counting from one point of the world to the other. Each household has 2.5 children (don't ask how they sever them to prevent 3) on average. He has to travel through 5,556 houses per second to deliver all the gifts, and 1 million in a minute. This is impossible with our current understanding of physics.
Each child needs 80 cm of wrapping, this calculates to 1.5 million miles, longer than the distance of the Earth to the Moon, and this amount of presents sets him back 279.27 billion pounds (I'm not translating it to dollars). With our sayings, we see with that, he makes 640 million stops, and consumes 150 billion food calories. Most children live in apartments now.
He has 8/100,000th of a second to park his sleigh, get down the chimney, fill the stockings, eat the cookies and milk/orange juice left, leave, and get back on the sled. This scene repeats itself thousand of times a second. There are also 330 million children expecting a gift, and assuming each weigh about 2 pounds, this leads to 660 million pounds, and this doesn't require 12 reindeer, a bit more. Try 220,000 reindeer. The speed they make is 7,800 times the speed of light, and he will wake every child up on this planet, and by the time he reaches the 5th house, the poor deer will die from the sheer pressure.
I won't be doing apartment shit here because that's complex and I don't do complex stuff.
We all know Santa himself. A guy weighing 1 tonne and eats a shit ton of cookies and milk. However, is his actions possible in real life?
Short answer: no
Due to different timezones, he has 36 hours to work with and that's not enough to visit every house in the world, then drop a couple of gifts and leave. There are currently 1.6 billion children on this planet, but most Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu and Jewish children do not expect a visit from Saint Nick/Santa, there goes 85% of the children. All the remaining children live in 75 million houses. He has to move at 5,083,000 mph, which is hard but not impossible. He has to cover 122 million miles, counting from one point of the world to the other. Each household has 2.5 children (don't ask how they sever them to prevent 3) on average. He has to travel through 5,556 houses per second to deliver all the gifts, and 1 million in a minute. This is impossible with our current understanding of physics.
Each child needs 80 cm of wrapping, this calculates to 1.5 million miles, longer than the distance of the Earth to the Moon, and this amount of presents sets him back 279.27 billion pounds (I'm not translating it to dollars). With our sayings, we see with that, he makes 640 million stops, and consumes 150 billion food calories. Most children live in apartments now.
He has 8/100,000th of a second to park his sleigh, get down the chimney, fill the stockings, eat the cookies and milk/orange juice left, leave, and get back on the sled. This scene repeats itself thousand of times a second. There are also 330 million children expecting a gift, and assuming each weigh about 2 pounds, this leads to 660 million pounds, and this doesn't require 12 reindeer, a bit more. Try 220,000 reindeer. The speed they make is 7,800 times the speed of light, and he will wake every child up on this planet, and by the time he reaches the 5th house, the poor deer will die from the sheer pressure.
I won't be doing apartment shit here because that's complex and I don't do complex stuff.
