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who is really Santa. what is the meaning of Christmas!?
is Santa Real of fake. & What is the meaning of Christmas!
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- Andrew / ValLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
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 the 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, and 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 his sleigh, jump down the chimnye, 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 purpose of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking aabout .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc.This means that Santa's sleigh is moving 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 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 punds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (refer to point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal load, 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 - 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison - this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.
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-entereing the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy per SECOND, EACH! In short, hey will burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create a deafening sonic boom in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousanths 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 dead by now.
- 1 decade ago
I don't think that Santa is a real human but I think that the spirit of Santa is real, Why do you think that everyone is more giving and in a better mood during the holidays? As for the meaning of Christmas I think that it is time to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ and gather around the people that you love and care about and be thankful that you have what you have. And to help the others that are less fortunate.
Source(s): Just My Opinion. - Louise CLv 71 decade ago
Santa is fiction. The real purpose of Christmas is to celebrate the birth of Jesus, and the passing of the dark days of winter. After christmas the days grow longer and the nights shorter. In most industrialised societies this no longer matters very much, but it was of vital importance to our pre-industrial ancestors who created the midwinter festivities.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Saint Nicholas (Greek: ÎÎ³Î¹Î¿Ï ÎικÏÎ»Î±Î¿Ï , Agios Nikolaos, "victory of the people") (270 - is the common name for Nicholas of Myra, a saint and Bishop of Myra (in Lycia, part of modern-day Turkey). Because of the many miracles attributed to his intercession, he is also known as Nicholas the Wonderworker. He had a reputation for secret gift-giving, such as putting coins in the shoes of those who left them out for him, and thus became the model for Santa Claus, whose English name comes from the Dutch Sinterklaas.
Christmas (IPA: /krɪsmÉs/), also referred to as Christmas Day, is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 that commemorates the birth of Jesus of Nazareth.
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- 1 decade ago
Ok Santa is real!
The meaning of Christmas I is when Jesus is born and Jesus is someone who God sent down to save our sins.
Source(s): omg - Anonymous1 decade ago
He's real and the some believe that the reindeer's carry him and the amount of reindeer's are 10 Dasher is the leader and Rudolph is just the guidance I f you don't believe in him he won't give you any presents.
Source(s): I am just learning it at school - Anonymous1 decade ago
okay....santa's not real. its more of a myth. but the south pole is real! lol. and christmas is really meant to resemble the birth of Jesus.