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Legolas
12-26-2003, 07:08 PM
On the bottle-top of a (UK) flavoured milk drink - AFTER
OPENING, KEEP UPRIGHT. (duh!)


On a New Zealand insect spray - THIS PRODUCT NOT TESTED ON
ANIMALS.


In a US guide to setting up a new computer - TO AVOID
CONDENSATION FORMING, ALLOW THE BOXES TO WARM UP TO ROOM
TEMPERATURE BEFORE OPENING. (Makes sense...except these
instructions we're IN THE BOX!)


In some countries (like W. Virginia:), on the bottom of Coke
bottles - OPEN OTHER END.


On a Sears hairdryer - DO NOT USE WHILE SLEEPING. ( Now THAT
I'd like to see! )


On a bag of Fritos - YOU COULD BE A WINNER! NO PURCHASE
NECESSARY. DETAILS INSIDE. (The shoplifter special!)


On a bar of Dial soap - DIRECTIONS - USE LIKE REGULAR SOAP.
(And that would be how?)


On Tesco's Tiramisu dessert (printed on BOTTOM of the box) * DO
NOT TURN UPSIDE DOWN. (oops...Too late! You lose!)


On Marks & Spencer Bread Pudding - PRODUCT WILL BE HOT AFTER
HEATING. (Are you sure? Let's experiment.)


On a Korean kitchen knife - WARNING KEEP OUT OF CHILDREN.
(Dammit! Who are they to tell me what to do with my kids?)


On a string of Chinese-made Christmas lights - FOR INDOOR OR
OUTDOOR USE ONLY. (As opposed to what...use in outer space?)


On an American Airlines packet of nuts - INSTRUCTIONS - OPEN
PACKET, EAT NUTS. (I'm sure glad they cleared that up.)


On a Swedish chainsaw - DO NOT ATTEMPT TO STOP CHAIN WITH YOUR
HANDS OR GENITALS. (What kind of consumer phone-call led to
this warning?)


On a child's superman costume - WEARING OF THIS GARMENT DOES
NOT ENABLE YOU TO FLY. That's right, destroy a universal
childhood fantasy!)

WiperSix«L·R·S»
12-27-2003, 11:49 AM
I haven't checked these calculations, but they seem close to rule of thumb.
Subject: A practical view of Christmas


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 there is at least one good child in each.

Santa has about 31hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming 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 stocking, 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 onto 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 MPH.

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 can pull 10 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 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft reentering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would adsorb 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 m.p.s. in .001 seconds, would be subjected to acceleration forces of 17,000 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.

Merry Christmas, everybody!

Charger
12-27-2003, 02:14 PM
Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 m.p.s. in .001 seconds, would be subjected to acceleration forces of 17,000 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.

From what I understand, Santa's suit is made from the same material as a extraterestrial spacecraft...cause a kill'yon years ago aliens happen to visit Earth and...well no sense in going into that right now, but anyway it seems obvious that if the spacecraft can travel at great speeds then so can Santa's suit withstand the forces mentioned above...Pink blob, how obserd!
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