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The truth about Santa Claus
Dec 17 2005 06:46pm

CuZzA
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Santa Claus exists :D

g0000 s4nt4!!!11!

Santa 4tehw1n!!!1!!1!!111!!!:P:P:D

w3wt!!!
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Dec 25 2005 01:25am

Raziel Anjelis
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SC FTW!!!
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Dec 23 2005 11:26pm

SaberWeildinKow
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Actually it has more to do with the time dilation from the red shift. How time would be moving much slower for us than someone in a red shift.


I've just read about this in Hawkings "A Brief History of Time"...and can't argue one way or the other. Oh geeze...

Dec 20 2005 01:45am

darkskye
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 darkskye

Santa Claus is real, he just doesn't like to share!

Otherwise he'd give me his list of all the bad girls...

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Dec 20 2005 01:06am

Vaughn
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 Vaughn

Was the little elf green with wrinkled head and faint white hair?
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Dec 20 2005 12:46am

Bo
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 Bo

I had the good fortune of seeing Santa in the wee hours of Chirstmas morning, as he was preparing to leave my house. I took notice of a very short elf, who sat beside him in the slay. As the slay began it's slow ascent, I murmured to what I thought was myself: "I don't believe it", to which the very short elf replied: "THAT is why you fail."
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Dec 20 2005 12:41am

Alex Dkana
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I just watched a very interesting documentary last night called, "The Real Face of Santa".
This tells the story of the real Saint Nicolas and how he heard of a man in his town that could not afford a dowry for his three Daughters and was going to give them over to prostitution. So over three nights St Nicholas would throw a bag of gold through the man's open window. On the third night the man waited to see who the mystery man who was giving him the gold.
The documentary also visits the last resting place of St Nick (which is a very interesting story in it self) to examine the bones and get a specialist to reconstruct his face from his skull to show us what he really looked like.
If you see any of your local T.V stations advertising this program I highly recommend watching it if you get the chance.:)


cool i'll keep an eye out, thanks Jade :)
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Dec 20 2005 12:37am

Jade Jedi
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 Jade Jedi

I just watched a very interesting documentary last night called, "The Real Face of Santa".
This tells the story of the real Saint Nicolas and how he heard of a man in his town that could not afford a dowry for his three Daughters and was going to give them over to prostitution. So over three nights St Nicholas would throw a bag of gold through the man's open window. On the third night the man waited to see who the mystery man who was giving him the gold.
The documentary also visits the last resting place of St Nick (which is a very interesting story in it self) to examine the bones and get a specialist to reconstruct his face from his skull to show us what he really looked like.
If you see any of your local T.V stations advertising this program I highly recommend watching it if you get the chance.:)
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Dec 19 2005 11:58pm

Alex Dkana
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Santa's clothes were originally green, Coca Cola made them Red. They practically own him! Think about it, every coke you drink makes him a little bit stronger.

That git must be invincible by now!


lol yeah i keep telling people this and they cant believe it but it all makes sense :P

Whats so good about CC this time of year anyway, its the same all year round O_O
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Dec 19 2005 08:40pm

Buzz
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 Buzz

Actually it has more to do with the time dilation from the red shift. How time would be moving much slower for us than someone in a red shift.
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Dec 19 2005 08:32pm

Mic Den Octela
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 Mic Den Octela

All this spectrum talk is giving me a headache...
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Dec 19 2005 08:17pm

JavaGuy
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They're blue-shifted when they're coming towards you.
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Dec 19 2005 08:01pm

Buzz
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 Buzz

How does santa deliver toys to millions of children in a single night?

Rudolph and the red-shift reindeer.


Physicists everywhere are dying laughing now.
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Dec 19 2005 07:33pm

SaZ
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kensei... santa ownz j00 :D


Wrong-o :P


wtf
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Dec 19 2005 05:02pm

JamesF1
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kensei... santa ownz j00 :D


Wrong-o :P
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Dec 18 2005 10:06pm

Mic Den Octela
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 Mic Den Octela

Santa's clothes were originally green, Coca Cola made them Red. They practically own him! Think about it, every coke you drink makes him a little bit stronger.

That git must be invincible by now!
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Dec 18 2005 09:51pm

SaZ
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 SaZ

kensei... santa ownz j00 :D
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Dec 18 2005 08:29pm

JamesF1
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 JamesF1

Homo elfius :P :D
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Dec 18 2005 08:17pm

Vaughn
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 Vaughn

you bring good points. But yuo forgot two major points.

1. Santa is an elf. Animalia Chordata Mamalia Primata Hominade Homo elfius. His reindeer live in the north pole, whcih to my knowledge still hasn't been explored fully.

2. Santa, being an elf, has the magical powers of an elf. Which, if you remember: not subject to disease or old age, and when needed he can distort physics.
Did i also mention multi-dimentionary travel?
Oh... and dont get me with this "but thats not theoretically possible" physics stuff. Theres alot of stuff we don't know and don't understand. For example, we still don't know how emotions work. Or most of the brain/genome. So, just because we cant explain it, doesnt mean it doesn't exist.

PS: Santa exists and rules the North Pole. He makes the abominable snowman his beehatch
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Dec 18 2005 06:20pm

JamesF1
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 JamesF1

Here is the conclusive proof Santa doesn't exist

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No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.

There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.

Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house.

Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household, a total trip of 71.604 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding etc. This means that 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 on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.

The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison - this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (Not the Queen but the boat).

353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecrafts re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy per second each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.

In conclusion - If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's been vaporized by now.
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This comment was edited by JamesF1 on Dec 18 2005 08:19pm.

Dec 18 2005 05:37pm

Ecks
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Santa isnt coming to town this year.


YOU'RE SICK! SICK AND TWISTED! WHY WOULD YOU SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT! :mad:

:P
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Dec 18 2005 12:06pm

Mindrith Pride
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whatever the truth is... he pwnz all! :D

i guess ^_^
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Dec 17 2005 11:35pm

SaZ
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 SaZ

whatever the truth is... he pwnz all! :D
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Dec 17 2005 11:15pm

Tallepyon
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 Tallepyon

Santa isnt coming to town this year.

Dec 17 2005 09:09pm

Mindrith Pride
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wow!! how come i always see my mum or dad sneak into my room with my preasents at like midnight =)?
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Dec 17 2005 09:08pm

Monteeeeeee
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no he dont...
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