"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.
Nov. 19, 2008
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My life is being debated by invade... er, I mean invaded by debate!
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').
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. ;)
Sep. 3, 2008
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My book is colecting a lot of dust...
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?
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!
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?
Aug. 9, 2008
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You know, I'm starting to think I was gone to long...
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!
Aug. 8, 2008
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Error! Error! Template malfunction! Error!
Hey ya'll. Just letting you know that if my blog look's diferent to you at all, it means I tried to change a template, ether this one or my Yith one, and something went very wrong. You see, I have anouther blog, and my computer seems to get the templates mixed up. I hope to fix it all shortly. Please tell me if you find any malfunction.
Hey! I'm back. Did you miss me?... I thought so. Anywho, I just wanted to say, for the first time in a long time, I have done work on my book (for those of you who actually remember what I'm talking about, this is a real treat=)). However, the work I am refering to cannot be found on this blog. You must find my other blog.
Jul. 4, 2008
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The most awsome grand fanaly I've ever seen... and the closest I've ever been.
Thursday night, 10:30PM:
I was at a friends house with my family, celabrating the Fourth of July with friends. Adam, (the friend whom's house we were at) had firework's planed to top off the evening. Everything was going fine... until the Grand Fanaly was reached. Then it went crazy.
As it turned out, the BIG fireworks were in a defalt packge. The packge was made like a revolving gun. One would go off, then the next, then the next. He had two of these out, and both were lit at the same time.
The first two went into the air, and then one of the rockets went haywire and miscorrecly fired, cosing the whole packge to fall on its side and spin like a bottle, knocing the other one over as well. Remember, these are lit, and they're no longer pointing at the sky. Put two and two together.
To all whom it may concern,
Not to long ago I started another blog. This blog, (Titled "Welcome to Yith...") is dedicated entirely to my book-in-progress "Yith". Go there to see updates on the book, chapters and so on. Click the link below to go to my new blog. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Yith/551536/
1. What time is it? 7:42 AM
2. What's your full name? Nicholas Donavin Wilbanks
3. What are you most afraid of? hmmm....
4. What is the most recent movie that you have seen? Horton Hear's a Who
5. Place of birth? Not sure, FL
6. Favorite food? Baked potato soup!
7. What's your natural hair color? Red
8. Ever been a Neat Freak? Yeah
10. Ever Love someone so much it made you cry? Not that I recall...
11. Ever been in an accident? No
12. Croutons or bacon bits? Crouton
13. Favorite day of the week? Saturday
14. Favorite Restaurant? No idea
15. Favorite Flower? Clueless
16. Favorite sport to watch? Football
17. Favorite drink? Virgils root beer
18. Favorite ice cream? Ether moose tracks or reasses
19. Warner Brothers/Disney? Disney
20. Ever been on a ship? No
21. What color is your bedroom carpet? I have hardwood
22. How many times did you fail your driver's test? I didn't!
23. What do you do when you are bored? Read
24. Bedtime? 9pm
25. Who will respond to this tag the quickest? No idea
26. Who will least likely respond? Again, no idea
27. Who is the person that you are most curious to see their response? Anyone!
28. Favorite TV shows? Don't watch much TV
29. Last person you went to dinner with? my family
30. Zoo or park? zoo
31. What are your favorite colors? Blue.
32. How many pets do you have? none
33. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The chicken. duh
34. What do you want to do before you die? Impact the world in some fantastic way
35. Have you ever been to Hawaii? Nope
36. Have you been to countries outside the U.S.? No
37. How many people are you going to tag with this? 3
38. Who are you going to tag? lotrsavvy, Anna94 and Bookfreak
I couldn't help but take note of the fact that at least 50% of HSB users have music. Up to this point, I have not. Now I do. Comment to me on what you think. If you have any ideas to make my music more.... uh..... likable.... let me know.
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In order to tell this story, we must go back, back, back before my sisters birthday.
One day me my brothers were going out to ride their bikes. My little sister followed them to the shed where we keep the bikes. As Ian was getting his bike out, Daci, out-of-the-blue says, "Ian, I wanta pink bike!" No urging, no suggesting, no nothing. She just said it.
Skip to yesterday.
We all went to Toy's R Us to get Daci birthday gifts. Mom and dad got her a pink trike. She has yet to get the hang of it, but she fell in love with it! In fact, when we got back in the van, her bike was put in the back... where she couldn't see it. The first thing she said was, "Where my pink bike go?" Mom cracked up over this.
Today, 7:30 AM. Story as told
Mom, after a restless night, was finaley setaling down and dad was walking out of the bedroom to go to work. A moment later dad popped his head back in and said, "Just so you know, she's up and getting her shoes on." Anouther moment later Daci walks in, look's at mom and said, "Mom, I ready to ride my pink bike!" And she did (tried).
I went to Six Flags yesterday! It was homeschool day, so homeschoolers got a discount (In fact, the park was closed to non-homeschoolers). I had a blast! Superman, Ultimate Flight was my favorite ride. Its not like any other coaster you have ever been on. Instead of sitting upright, you sit belly-towards-the-ground, like how Superman flies. I was awesome!
Batman, the Ride was my second favorite ride. It's similar to Superman, in that it's not you traditional roller coaster. Your feet dangle. It was pretty cool to.
Those were the most notable ride we went on, so that's all I am going to post about... for now. If you want more, comment! If you want more of something else, comment! If you've been to Six Flags, comment! Even if you have nothing to say and just wanted me to know you were on, COMMENT!
Ian: Babyworld began one night when me and my brother Reagan were lieing in bed with our sleeptoys, who are now called Baby Santa and Space Baby. Me and Reagan wanted to play with them, but could not think of a place for them to live. We thought about the bed, but no, the bed was not enough. They needed a WORLD to live in. We thought they looked like babys, thus the names, thus Babyworld begain.
Me: OK, my turn. For the longest time Reagan and Ian played by themselfs. Daci fixed that. When she came along, I had to share a room with them, exposeing me to Babyworld. I felt left out, 'cause I was not a part of this game. So I joined. Easy as that. Well, sort of. You see, before I joined, Babyworld was home to babys only. Babys were a no-no-nonsence group of... babys who pulled off Loony-Toon stunts on a everyday basis. Then me and "Good Night Bear"(as he was called at the time) came along. And with us came what the babys now know as... 'The Dark Ages' a.k.a reality.
If you like it and you know it post a comment! (clap, clap)
Jesus and Satan were having an on-going argument about who was better on the computer. They had been going at it for days, and frankly God was tired of hearing all the bickering.
Finally fed up, God said, 'THAT'S IT! I have had enough. I am going to set up a test that will run for two hours, and from those results, I will judge who does the better job.'
So Satan and Jesus sat down at the keyboards and typed away.
They moused.
They faxed.
They e-mailed.
They e-mailed with attachments.
They downloaded.
They did spreadsheets!
They wrote reports.
They created labels and cards.
They created charts and graphs.
They did some genealogy reports
They did every job known to man.
Jesus worked with heavenly efficiency, and Satan was faster than hell.
Then, ten minutes before their time was up, lightning suddenly flashed across the sky, thunder rolled, rain poured, and, of course, the power went off.
Satan stared at his blank screen and screamed every curse word known in the underworld.
Jesus just sighed.
Finally the electricity came back on, and each of them restarted their computers. Satan started searching frantically, screaming:
'It's gone! It's all GONE! 'I lost everything when the power went out!'
Meanwhile, Jesus quietly started printing out all of his files from the past two hours of work.
Satan observed this and became irate.
'Wait!' he screamed. 'That's not fair! He cheated! How come he has all his work and I don' t have any?'
God just shrugged and said,
JESUS SAVES!
Did you like it? Here's more!
"Highway Slobbery" (true story's)
In March 1986, a tractor-trailer from Idaho caught fire on a highway. It's contents-a giant load of frozen french fries- were instantly cooked, becoming the worlds biggest side of fries. Where did this happen? Greasy, Oklahoma.
Steve Beavers was hauling 520 beehives in June 2003 when his flatbed truck skidded on a patch of slick road near Claycomo, Missouri. The swerve was enough to knock the hives to the ground to the ground-and release about 25 million live (and not too happy) honeybees. Their first victims were the firefighters,police and tow-truck drivers who came to the scene. Then, the bugs swarmed to a nearby mobile home park, forcing residents to hide indoors all day. Some of the bugs hitched a ride on the fire-trucks and spent the rest of the day tormenting the firefighters at the local fire station. As the sun fell and the temperature dropped, so did the bees.Specialists were brought to collect the sleepy bugs. The experts put on protective gear, scooped up the sleepy bugs by the handful, and put them back in their hives.
In March 2000, an armored car spilled carrying $4,000 in pennies-that's 400,000 coins-on a freeway in Seattle, Washington. State transportation department workers arrived with shovels to do some coin collecting, but shovels weren't great for scooping up pennies. The crew was about to pick up the mess by hand when someone had a bright idea: They get a street sweeper and simply vacuum up the cash!
Feb. 20, 2008
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I'm still living... sorry I took soooooo long.
Hiya! I hope I was missed! (I was, wasn't I?)
Anyway, things have been rather uneventful since my move here. (I blame the slack in blogging on my mother!=) A remarkable thing that have happened in my life is something I never thought would happen... I became a Star Trek fan! Live long and prosper!
In other news, the Clevland area has been rather under-the-weather lately. The flu has lanched an all-out alsalt on Clevland. Thankfully, my famlly has not been attacked.
I wish you all good luck all your life!
May the true force be with you always.
Live long and prosper.
Sep. 19, 2007
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AHHHH! HELP! MY LIFE'S IN A WOORLPOOL AND I CAN'T GET IT OUT!!
It's true. No kidding. Okay, perhaps I overtiped a litle. . .. Sorry I've been gone so long, ( If anyone cared.) but paking a house it hard! No, we're NOT takeing the house with us. (LOL) ( If you think that takeing the house with us is not posible, haven't you heard of MegaMovers??) However, I did find time to tipe this post. 8 days from now, we'll be loding the stuff up, ( that's right. STUFF, not HOUSE=) and be on our way to TN! Pray for us Please!!!
A lot of things in my mind, bundled into a few posts...okay, maybe not just a few.OK, I admit it, there will be a lot of posts. I hope despite the "tangled talking," you will enjoy my blog.
)! 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.
I guess no one knows, then...
. So I joined. Easy as that. Well, sort of. You see, before I joined, Babyworld was home to babys only. Babys were a no-no-nonsence group of... babys who pulled off Loony-Toon stunts on a everyday basis
. Then me and "Good Night Bear"(as he was called at the time) came along. And with us came what the babys now know as... 'The Dark Ages' a.k.a reality.
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