1. No known species of reindeer can fly, but there are 300,000 species of living organims yet to be classified. Although most of these are insects and bacteria, this does not rule out flying reindeer.

2. According to the Population Refeence Bureau, 378 million people celebrate Christmas worldwide. With an average of 3.5 children per home, that's 91.8 million homes for Santa to visit.

3. Thanks to different time zones, Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, assuming he travels east to west. This works out to 822.6 visits per second. That means for each celebrating household with at least one good child in it, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, place presents under the tree, eat the cookies and return to the sleigh.

4. Assuming that all 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed throughout the earth, the total trip time will be 75.5 million miles. That means Santa's sleigh must move at 650 miles per second, 3000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle on earth (the Ulysses space probe) moves at 27.4 miles per second.

5. Assuming that each child get nothing more than a medium-sized Lego set (weighing 2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying a payload of 321,300 tons, not counting jolly ol' Saint Nick himself.

6. A standard reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even if flying reindeer might pull 10 times more than a normal reindeer, Santa would need 214,200 reindeer to pull the sleigh. The reindeer, payload, Santa and sleigh would therefore weigh more than 353,430 tons. This is four times the weight of the Q.E. II cruise ship.

7. This 353,430 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates tremendous air resistance, heating the reindeer in the same manner as a spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would therefore absorb 14.3 quintillion joule of energy, per second, each.

8. The lead reindeer, as a result will burst into flames, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating massive sonic booms in their wakes. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 0.00426 seconds. Santa will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500 times greater than gravity. Assuming that Santa weighs 250 pounds, he would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,375,000 pounds of centrifugal force.

Uh...don't tell my kids........please.

I still think he can do.
Every place I went this weekend, Santa was there! And he looked very healthy to me. Not one burn mark on him.
Now assuming he has a force field like the star ship Enterprise and travels the speed of light, this makes it all possible.

Oh, I think I hear him on the roof now!

It's the magic beans.

Oh god dude, your post made my Christmas. Good stuff.

Magic beans eh? Does that mean magic skid marks?

I always thougth Santa used Slip Shields (frictionless shields). As any SF buff knows they work at a sub-atomic level to reduce friction. Combined with inerita dampers and anti-gravity system, hauling that kind of cargo is not a real problem for someone with an anti-mater/matter reactor the size of a semi truck.

To quote Cheech and Chong "Oh he had some magic dust, he'd give a little to the reindeer, and a little for Santa Claus, a little more for Santa Claus, and a little more for Santa Claus!"

Dont forget santas transporter,, beam the presents down and the cookies up

Could it be cloning like in Star Wars?

the name got changed in translation, its not santa clause its really santa clone

Don't forget that Santa has to eat the cookies / mince pies as well and in our case, a very nice glass of port.

Hmmmm.....Santa.

NC

Santa doesn't do Christmas like he used to... There used to not be so many households, and even less that celebrated Christmas.

When Christmas got as big as it is now he started contracting out to illegal immigrants... I mean, come on, they're cheaper. Sure, now not everyone gets what were supposed to get all the time, but at least they get something!

I didn't know the North Pole had an illegal immigrant problem

No one "owns" or has political sovereignty over the North Pole due mainly to the fact that the Geographic North Pole lies in the center of the vast Arctic Ocean. The North Pole itself is an imaginary point at the earth's northern axis where lines of longitude converge.

So, illegal immigrants to what country?

Illegal earth immigrants. You think Humans can handle flying reindeer?

LOL!

Nice save

I have a theory, Santa...Times Travels, that means that he takes a lot a time to deliver tons and tons of toys, I am almost sure that:he stops time to do it all like he does. Use another new technology to carry all that toys..........lol....I can refute all that sciences and physics theorys

Santa works year round and does not stop time, he just does things majora's mask style and in reality ends up being millions of places at once by being able to occupy the same time period multipule times. :)

Actually I think Santa uses quantum mechanics, because untill you collapse the wave function to get an answer for the specific moment of where he is, up to that point he is everywhere at once, and will be agian untill the next measurement.