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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6it appeared on the newswire.
>by the grinch Tue, Dec 3 2002, 10:23am
>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).
>
>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 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 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 sl!
>eigh and get onto 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 not 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 pokey 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 flying reindeer can pull 10
>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).
>
>A mass of nearly 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 reaches 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 17,000 g's.
>
>A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim considering all the
>high calorie snacks he must have consumed over the years) 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 CHISTMAS!!!
>
I got very upset. I wrote to lots of friends in the Artic circle to say
"stop this hurtling mass of danger, from crashlanding on yourselves".
"what dangerous cargo might it carry?"
I also remember in the Young Fine Gael debacle making slight reference to the etyomolgy of the word Bodach meaning rich man, an bodach mór is a very important person whose etymological roots lie in description of penises.
Baldonnel is one of our airport resources.
I believe it predated the treaty obligations of the Irish British settlement of 1922.
and thus can not be considered a port in the usual sense of the word at all.
Jolly good show for them to help out Santa, eh?
Thanks to the lickspittle efforts of Bertrude and her spineless cohorts in traitorism.
If you enjoyed the Brittisch Occupation of Ireland, well, you'll just LOVE the Yankee Occupation now well underway - maybe the Brits were just over on a flying visit to give the new Übermenschen some helpful tips on subjugating the disorderly natives around Shannon and Knock Airports.
Schalom, BP
A friend who knows a sandbagger said this flight left Bessbrook at 8am this morning for Baldonnell. Don't know what they did at Baldonnell but routed back along the coast about 3 hours later. Perhaps the state monitors of this site might like to explain?
I have a friend in the MOD in Dublin who says its something to do with a new radar site at baldonnell which was needed as a back up to flying dales in yorkshire for the new ICBM shield the british and americans are building.