No such thing as Santa Claus???!!!

[classic33]

3000 times the speed of sound?

Why are there no sonic booms then??

You mean to say you never heard them!!

 

[Risex4]

3000 times the speed of sound?

Why are there no sonic booms then??

I refer you Sir to the lnik I posted previously outlining the scentific study into the area of Santa Clausial Existence Theory. Sonic booms aren't actually the problem;

"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 reached the fifth house on his trip."

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

And people actually sit down and think about this stuff??!!

 

[Risex4]

When you think about it, all science is people sitting down to think about tripe, until such point that they just happen across tripe which actually carries some degree of relevancy.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

When you think about it, all science is people sitting down to think about tripe, until such point that they just happen across tripe which actually carries some degree of relevancy.

Yes, but, SANTA!?

It has the makings of an Ignoble Prize nomination that!

 

[Risex4]

Every hypothesis has to be tested for validation or elimination at some point to answer the question. Isn't that the core foundation to scientific thinking?

 

[classic33]

I refer you Sir to the lnik I posted previously outlining the scentific study into the area of Santa Clausial Existence Theory. Sonic booms aren't actually the problem;

"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 reached the fifth house on his trip."

http://www.inflection-point.com/jokes/86.htm
I give you
http://www.inflection-point.com/jokes/122.htm

 

[classic33]

And people actually sit down and think about this stuff??!!

Books have been written on it
http://www.improbable.com/2009/12/17/the-limited-power-of-santa-claus/

http://www.improbable.com/news/2003/dec/santa.html

It can be as much a case of being scared about what we do not know as much as we think we know.

 

[classic33]

[QUOTE 2166315, member: 259"]Typical bloody Santa thread. Four pages in and the nerds have taken over! [/quote]
'Ere, you can't count. Try going back a page!