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Scientific evidence against the existence of Santa Claus
Does Santa Claus exist? 1)
No known species of a reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300.000 species of living organisms, which have yet to be classified.
And although these are mostly insects and bacteria, this may not exclude flying reindeer, which were only seen by Santa so far. 2)
There are around 2 milliard children (people under 18) in this world. BUT Santa
seems not to deliver to Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhists. This reduces his work to approx. 15 % of the total - 378 million children (according to census). On an average of 3.5 children per household, yields 91.8
million houses. We suppose that in every house lives at least one good child. 3)
If Santa claus is travelling from East to West, he has a 31-hour-Christmas Day, conditioned by the several timezones (which seems to
be logical). Therefore you have 822.6 visits per second. Consequently for every Christian household with good children Santa has 1/1000 seconds time for his work: park, jump out of his sleigh, come down the chimney,
fill the socks, distribute the remaining presents under the Christmas-Tree, exterminate the leftover of the Christmas meal, climb up the chimney again and fly to the next house. Assume that every of these 91.8 million
stops around the world are equal (which of course, we know, is wrong, but for fundamental calculation we will accept this), so we get 1.3 km distance between households, an overall distance of 120.8 million km, not
including the things which everyone of us has to do at least once in 31 hours, plus getting a meal, etc. This means, that Santa's sleigh flies at 1040 km per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For comparision: the
fastest manmade vehicle in the world, the Ulysses Space Probe, drives with a ridiculous speed of 43.8 km per second. An ordinary reindeer travels at speeds of upto 24 km per HOUR. 4)
The freight of the sleigh
leads to another interesting effect. Assume that every child gets no more than a medium-sized Lego-Set (approx. 1 kg), then the sleigh has a weight of 378.000 tons, not including Santa, to everyone's knowledge is an
overweight man. An ordinary reindeer cannot carry more than 175 kg. Even if we assume, that a "flying reindeer" (according to top 1) can carry the ten-fold weight, not eight or maybe nine reindeer's are used
for the sleigh. 216.000 reindeer's are used. This raises the weight - not included the sleigh itself - to 410.400 tons. Again to comparision: this is more than the fourfold weight of Queen Elisabeth. 5)
410,400
tons travelling at a speed of 1040 km/s produces a huge air opposition - thus the reindeer will burn up, like a space craft entering the earth's atmosphere. The foremost pair of reindeer must absorb then 16.6 TRILLION
Joules of energy. Every second. Otherwise: they will go up in flames practically instanteneously, the next pair of reindeer will be exposed to the air opposition, and a deafening bang will be produced. The whole team of
reindeer will be vaporised within 5 thousandths of a second. In the meantime Santa will be exposed to an accelaration, 17,500 times the speed of the earth's revolution. A 120 kg heavy Santa claus (which is ridiculously
light after the description) would be nailed to the end of his sleigh - with a power of 20.6 million Newtons. So we are getting to the end:
IF Santa Claus finally managed to deliver the presents, today he must be DEAD!!! Special Thanks to Colm (Sleeperman)
and Kevin (Boots), who have helped me to translate this text! |
