Fine, I Give In..
Dec 25
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..but I’m not goin down without a fight here.
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WTF???
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The Physics of Santa
Dec 25
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I’m glad I was able to dig this up. I remember looking last year (or the year before?..) and for some reason I couldn’t find it. This is hard, scientific proof that there is no Santa! Or something. I remember reading this thing when I was in junior high one year and I haven’t seen it since. This is good stuff. My favorite part:
353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance — this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecrafts re-entering 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 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim)would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.
You can read the whole thing and a bunch of rebutals here.
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