Hi, This sort of rationalism can only lead to trouble. Look what happened last year: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2562109.stm
But never mind. Santa says it's all mince pie in the sky: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2565041.stm -- Ho, ho, ho, Bob Saturday, December 20, 2003, 10:16:30 PM, you wrote: > SANTA - How does he do it?? [...] > rThe lead pair of reindeer > would adsorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each. In short, > they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer > behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire > reindeer team would be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second, or > right about the time Santa reached the fifth house on his trip. Not that it > matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop > to 650 m.p.s. in .001 seconds, would be subjected to acceleration forces of > 17,000 g's. A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be > pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force, instantly > crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of pink > goo. > Therefore, if Santa did exist, he's dead now. Merry Christmas.
