I’m going to leave tumblr for a while because I have exams in a few weeks and I know I’ll end up getting too distracted when I’m supposed to be revising and hey I barely post nowadays anyway so I’m sure you won’t notice.
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this morning i put on my sisters suspender tight because you know, that’s a pretty normal thing today, i also drunk a lot of wine all day long which is great. today’s been lovely, aww mad love for my family. hope everyone else has had a wonderful day :)
this’ll be my 3rd Christmas on tumblr which isn’t really an achievement or anything but it’s making me feel old.
I’ve met some lovely people on here so I hope you all have a lovely day tomorrow and a lovely Christmas in general. I hope you’ve been well behaved all year and Father Christmas brings you lots of lovely things :) I act like I won’t be online tomorrow though, I’m sure I probably will at some point but yeah have a lovely day everyone make sure you eat loads and get drunk because let’s be honest that’s what christmas is really about!
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 measly 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). 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. Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 miles/sec in .001 seconds, would be subjected to acceleration forces of 17,500 g’s. A 250 pound Santa (which seems rather 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.
This, my followers, is why Maths and Physics are so fun
(Source: florencelucy)
i woke up today and thought sunday’s are rubbish days so instead of packing and being sensible i’ve spent all day in bed and i watched the second lord of the rings and in a bit i’m going to watch the third and i’ll just pack tomorrow morning
i think it’s time for food
