calculation

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 650miles 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 energypersecond 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.
26thousand ths 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, wouldbe 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.

 

na, i didnt do all the calculating. i found this in my folder somewhere on my computer, so i decided to post it. plus this is from some site.

yeah, u already rep me, AMD

 

on the other tread, it was typo, it was suppose to be AFD but i put m.

i was thinking AMD from TOONS, bugs bunny and other characters