Santa tracker
"Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to time zones [...] 91.8 million stops [...] sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. [...] The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each. In short, they will burst into flame [...] Santa would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force." --Physics of Santa
(, Sun 23 Dec 2018, 18:21, Reply)
Santa is everywhere at once and essentially unobservable. This sounds less like a classical physics problem and more of a quantum mechanics problem.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sun 23 Dec 2018, 19:43,
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Perhaps he's going so fast round the world that time goes backwards, like what Reeveman once did.
(, Sun 23 Dec 2018, 23:44, Reply)
That was originally a great piece in Spy magazine in 1990. And I probably still have it.
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The_cold_stare Coming here only when very, very bored, Sun 23 Dec 2018, 20:51,
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