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Dec. 15, 2008
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The Mith of Santa.
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NickNitro
"We all know the story about Santa. He lives on North Pole along with his wife, elves and reindeers. Elves help him to process requests of millions of children who write letters to Santa every year requesting for toys and other wishes, to help him determine whether these children have been good or bad, to fulfill the wishes of all good children and make requested toys for them. On Christmas Eve, Santa wears his famous red suit with white snow-white trimmings, puts all the toys on his sleigh and nine reindeers are attached to the sleigh to pull it. The bright red nose of Rudolph the Reindeer acts as an indicator to tell the direction.
Santa parks his sleigh on the roof of the household, climbs down the sleigh, look for the right gifts, climbs down the chimney of each household, laugh in his famous way 'Ho! Ho! Ho!', drink and eat the milk and cookies kept for him by the children and keep the requested gifts for them under the tree, fill the stockings, come back up and sit in his sleigh. He is to do all this and more in one night! There are some things which make us doubt, whether Santa Claus really exists or if he does, whether he is really alive or is he dead already. Here are some reasons why we have our doubts:
- No one has ever seen flying reindeers, except Santa, Mrs. Claus and their elves, of course. However, since there are over 300,000 species of living organisms that are unclassified (though they are mostly insects and germs), we can give them benefit of doubt.
- According to the Populations Reference Bureau, there are about 2 billion children (defined as under 15) in the world. Assuming that Santa caters to Christian children only and do not bother himself about children of other religion, he still has 15% of the above children population to think about.
- 15% of 2 billion means 300 million children, which is certain an enormous workload, even for benevolent and kindly Santa.
- Let's assume that there are about three children in each household and at least one of them is good. Thus, Santa has to visit 100 million homes during Christmas Eve.
- Let's assume Santa starts distributing gifts, starting from 5 pm to midnight (which makes 7 hours). Since earth rotates and there is a difference of full 24 hours overall due to different time zones, we can say that Santa has 31 hours to finish his work. We can also assume that Santa works from East to West to use this time difference to his full advantage.
- Visiting 100 million homes in 31 hours means that Santa has to visit 896 homes per second.
- Thus, he has about 1/1000th of a second to do everything mentioned above such as parking his sleigh, looking for the right gifts, climbing down the sleigh and chimney, binge on snacks, fill the stockings, come up again and rush to his next stop.
- Even if we assume that all households are distributed evenly throughout the earth for convenience of Santa and Santa Claus works non-stop for 31 hours (both of which are very big assumptions that are almost impossible!), Santa has to travel about 75.5 million miles in 31 hours and 650 miles per second.
- Now the fastest man-made vehicle moves at 27.4 miles per second and normally reindeers can run at the speed of 15 miles per hour. 650 miles per second is 3000 times faster than the speed of sound.
- On an average, each toy for a child weighs about 2 pounds; the sleigh has to carry over 321,000 tons plus the Santa with his big belly and his reindeers.
- Known reindeers can only pull 300 pounds at once. If flying reindeers can pull up to 3000 pounds, about 214,000 reindeers will be needed to pull Santa's sleigh, which means sleigh must carry over 353,000 tons.
- 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second in the air will create enormous friction and Santa, his reindeers and his sleigh will instantly burn to death, just like meteors that occasionally enter earth's atmosphere.
Thus, we can safely conclude that if Santa ever existed, he was dead when he attempted his seemingly impossible project for the first time and is no more alive."
This was on my mothers blog, and I just had to comment. I am a trivia person, so I know a lot about Santa. And I must say that, though whoever made this certianly did their homework, they completly disregarded the magic of Santa Claus.
First of all, let's look at the reindeer fact. Well, if Santa's reindeer can fly, why doesn't Santa go ahead and make a few more magic add-ons? Maybe these are super-reindeer, so only nine are needed. I mean, if one of them is allowed to have a glowing red nose, can't they pull a big man and his sleigh?
Now let's look at Santa's bag. Now from my watching of numerous christmas movies, I know that there are three diferent ways to look at Santa's bag. In "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer", a 1969 animated Christmas special, Santa has a bottomless bag. It may just be that, due to technoigy back then they couldn't make it bigger, but we'll stick with bottomless. Yet that still leaves the idea that he'd still need to find the right gift for the right house. So let's move on.
In "The Polar Express", a 2004 animated Christmas movie, Santa has a large... no, a huge bag on the back of his sleigh. Now I'm not going to touch this one. and he doesn't leave until midnight! There'll be no working with this one.
However, in Disney's "The Santa Clause", Santa's bag is truly magic. It not only is bottomless, like so many bags in Disney, but it only has the gifts for the house that Santa's currently at, so no digging is involved.
Now let's look at how he get's around the world in one night. The only Santa movie that looks at this, to my knowlage, is the 1994 version of "Miracle on 34th Street". In one scene, Santa (or Kris, as he is called in the movie), states, "Well, if you could slow time down so that a second becomes a hour, a hour becomes a month, a month a year and a year a millennium, then you could do it quite easly, couldn't you?".
Now I'll have you know that I don't beleave in Santa Claus. Never have. But the resion I'm doing this is not to prove that Santa exist. I just think one should see both sides of the coin. In this case, the magic and the science of Santa.
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Dec. 1, 2008
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Happy Holidays!!!
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NickNitro
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Nov. 19, 2008
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My life is being debated by invade... er, I mean invaded by debate!
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Hey ya'll,
Sorry I haven't been on in, like, FOREVER, but there hasn't really been a lot to blog about. Just school, school, and more school. However, I have found something worth blogging about... DEBATE!
I'm REALLY exited about it. I'm part of the local Speech and Debate club (I can't remember the name... some hard-to-pronounce word in the bible), and I'm doing Team Policy. What's that, you ask? Well, I'll tell you. Team Policy is where a team of two (never more, never less) debate a curent policy in the U.S government (e.g. Chinese counterweight, Microloans, Free Trade, things like that) that relates to the years resolotion (This year the resolotion is this: Resolved: That the United States Federal Goverment should singificantly change it's policy toward India). You are ether Affermitive or Negative. If you are Affermitive, your job is to uphold the resolotion, show just what needs to be changed, and how you plan on changing it. If you are Negative, your job would be defending the Statis Quo and fighting the Affermitive teams plan. Note that there is no one stratigy for Affermitive teams. So long as what they say line up with the resolotion, they can say whatever they want. Negatives beware.
How did we get here again? Oh, right! I'm IN debate. Duh! (lol) And my first real debate is this coming friday! That's the bottom line, folks. I'm going to my first debate soon, and I wanted ya'll to know (plus I needed to get on, or else you guys will start wondering if I moved to the moon or somethin').
Wish Me Luck!
NickNitro |
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Oct. 1, 2008
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Events from two day ago.
Hello!
I am sorry to say I have no reson for my lapse in blogging. There's just been nothing to blog about. But now there is!
Yesterday me and my family went to the Tennesee Aquarem (forgive the misspelling )! It was homeschool day, so my family of five (my father wasn't with us) got in at just over $30! Not bad, huh? It was COOL! Mom printed out these scavenger hunt sheets off the internet, so it was still "school". We saw sharks and pengins and giant crabs and fish... lots and lots of fish.
All that to say, I still blog, so there's no reson not to keep checking in. ;)
Later!
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Sep. 14, 2008
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Moving...
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Phyllis
No, thank the Good Lord, not to another house. Not yet anyways. The owner of the home we are currently in did call and he may sell, so a move in our near future is not entirely out of the question, but for now..today, we are staying put. Just moving my blog.
My husband worked really hard for me and made a very pretty new blogging home for me on Blogger...Come on over and take a look. I hope to try and move my archives (not an easy task, they will not move as a whole month, so instead I will be moving them one.at.a.time. *sigh*) so if you see some posts that make you think, "Hey, haven't I read this before?" You very well may have.
Unfortunately, my comments won't transfer over, so if they delete this blog, your witty contributions will be lost forever. Please some on over and leave your mark on my new blog so I will know that you all still want to be inspired and informed by my aimlessness. I live to serve, you know.
Speaking of serving, I have just been informed that there is nothing to eat here. So I need to go forage up some food for the natives.
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Sep. 3, 2008
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My book is colecting a lot of dust...
Posted By
NickNitro
I'd be oh-so-appreciative if some of my readers took the time to go and read my book. It's lonely! Plus, I need reviews. I can't know what you think of my work if you have never seen it! So, I'm asking ya'll as friends, would you read it? For me? PLEASE?
Until next time,
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Sep. 2, 2008
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I'm back and Music list update
Posted By
NickNitro
Hey ya'll. I'm back from my grandparents. I had a GREAT time! Did a lot of fun stuff, including play games, throw couzins in the pool, take a trip to a western theam park, watch movies, and spend time with family!
Now on my other matter, some of ya'll may have notised that I removed my music list. Well, that was because the site I got the playlist on had a virus in it's sistem. I didn't what it to spread, so I removed the playlist. However, the virus has been dealt with and it's safe to play music once more. YE-HAW!
Until next time,
NickNitro |
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Sep. 1, 2008
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Free Chicken Strips at Chic-Fil-A!!
Just for today, Sept 1st, Chic-Fil-A is offering free chicken strips (a new menu item) to anyone who comes into the store (or through the drive-thru even) wearing their favorite football team logo gear. It can be a professional, college, even a highschool team!!
We were thinking of going ourselves when we realized, sports fans that we are, we do not own any logo emblazoned clothing. Actually, we have a few sweatshirts, but who wants to wear that when it's 90* outside? So our conversation is going something like this...
Hubby: We could go by the dollar store and see what kind of stuff they have. Sometimes they have sports stuff. Or that little outdoor store...they have $2.00 licensed wear.
Me: You guys could just wear your sweatshirts just to order, then take them off, that way we don't need to get everyone a t-shirt. Or we could just print out LOGOS and pin them to our clothes.
Hubby: We can't do that..I have an old Tampa Bay...oh wait, that's baseball.
Our son: Do we really NEED chicken strips THAT BAD?!
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Aug. 15, 2008
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Short Break
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NickNitro
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OK, everyone, this is just to let ya know that the following week I will be at my grandparents house, so there will be no new post during that time. Alright?
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Aug. 9, 2008
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You know, I'm starting to think I was gone to long...
Posted By
NickNitro
Where is everyone?!? Has my blog been desurted? Abandoned? Has my name been added to the "dead blogger" list??? AM I A "HAS BEEN"?!?! *sniff* I guess no one knows, then...
NickNitro
P.S To anyone who's cares, not to long from now I'm going to put up the results of a e-mail poll too see if I have and temper or a hard head. If you're interested, keep checking back! |
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