Is there a Santa Claus?

1. No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.

2. There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.

3. Santa has 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 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc.

   This means that 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 on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second; a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.

4. The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal anoint, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison - this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.

5. 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.

   In conclusion - If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead now.

   Based on the research of SPY magazine, January 1990.

shit i wanted to blog on the 1st day of 2007. missed it. lol. i was doing some blog-surfing ytd, n i seem to realise a trend to do some reflections on 2006 and hav some new yr resolutions for 2007. well mayb i shld do tt too, since i'm a trend-follower, and the last time i wrote any new yr resolutions was the time i started my blog, which is a couple of yrs ago

hmmmm... come to think of it, nothing significant or happening went on for me in 2006. i tink i din make any new frens in 2006. nor did i get a bf. the 1st half of the yr was internship, n den it was perhaps the 1st summer break where i din get a job. jus nua-ed my way till sem starts. n den it was a whole load of mugging.
well dere r a few special things tt happened.
1st, i had my 1st aeroplane ride of my life. finally managed to travel to places outside of singapore n malaysia. frankly, i tot tt travelling jus feels like having a void in ur life which u cannot account for when u come bac to singapore. haha. but nonetheless, i miss taiwan. i wanna go bac....

2nd, some frenships were strengthened. found new mahjong khakis.
3rd, totally unplanned, i went for new year countdown at the esplanade. well i din plan to go, since in my opinion i'm not close to the happening ppl i noe, and the ppl i'm close to are not the countdown type. but in the end, my dad was psycho-ed by my cousin to go countdown. so i tot might as well go loh. and it was until this time when i finally realised how no life 2006 had been for me. it's been ages since i went to the merlion park, a place i like quite abit cos it gives me a feeling of serenity.

that aside, i had a pretty ok countdown. i met all 3 kinds of ppl which i feel is essential to have a satisfying countdown. no.1 type are the ones who'll forcefully push their way thru the crowd when everyone can barely move oredi. n the auntie even said "u noe why i'm here? cos i walked the wrong way!" , a sentence which made me laugh out loud in my heart. no. 2 type are the ones who'll scold the no. 1 types for pushing when dere's no more space to move! it was pretty fun to hear them say "relax la auntie. cannot move oredi.. jus stand here n wait for the fireworks." but i was oso abit worried tt the auntie will push until ppl fall down n get injured, me included. n the 3rd type of ppl are the ones who'll scold the police n ask them to remove the barricade after the fireworks is over. heh.

well besides meeting these 3 kinds of ppl, a countdown would not b complete without
1) hearing the "wooooohh"s from the crowd when the fireworks haven come at all,
2) squeezing in a crowd which is totally immobile,
3) hearing all the "wah"s when the pretty fireworks are in the sky,
4) climbing over bridges and all to find a way outta the crowd,5) and walking for ages to reunite with the rest of the family/frens.

so all in all, i'm still a happening person in 2006 cos i went for countdown.
now for the new year. actualli i dun haf much gan3 chu4 for the new year. instead, i've more gan chu in that the last sch holidays of my life is gonna end soon. this semester will b the last semester of my sch life. i'm entering the nex phase of my life which i've no clue about. i always say to ppl ard me tt it's human nature to b unsatisfied about ur life. when i'm studying, i'll tink tt working is good. oni office hours, after tt go home can jus enjoy urself. somemore u're being paid! budden when i'm working, n cannot doze off as n when i like, i'll start thinking, why m i doing this to myself? i can jolly well quit n go home to take my nap. studying is much better, can jus switch off whenever i like. but at the end of the day, i do realise tt i prefer studying to working. as of now of cos. hee. so i'm a little sad tt my student life is gonna b over soon. n i'll b forced to grow up.
okie i've decided tt i dun wanna make new year resolutions. cos i dun keep to them anywae. haha.. okie okie fine. i'll make some.. ermmm... be a better person? have a more fulfilling life? hahaha.. okie serious n routine stuff is over. lemme tell u all some news.
i bought a hse!!!

nah this is a preview of the new hse i'm gonna build. but if u all hav been to the hse i'm living in now, or heard me say b4, my room basically has no tables which can be used. put in a clearer way, my room has no empty surface except the walls. every single horizontal spot tt can b used to put things is oredi occupied. so even if i build my hse now, dere's no where to display them. i gotta fins a land for my new hse! (i.e my hse will oni b set up in AGES)

man i've always loved this kinda things. when i was doing xmas shopping last yr, i saw this thing where they let u literally build ur own hse with cement, but it's in wood of cos. n i tot it was realli cool n nice!!! but it costs $18.90 so i tot it's abit ridiculous to buy this kinda thing for myself. hee.

okokie lastly, gotta put up xmas presents photos..

this is from dawndawn n minmin.

n this is from shiyu, ja9 n meizhen.

i like my xmas presents.

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