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can’t sleep aragsdfadbhf

George — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:52:51 +0000

can’t sleep aragsdfadbhf

finally taken off my christmas…

George — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:17:49 +0000

finally taken off my christmas hat from lunch.

merry xmass

George — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:11:01 +0000

So it is now christmas. I will be posting later today with stuff and stuff. The above pic (GrabUp) shows people on twitter saying happy christmas.

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merry xmass http://is.gd/dnwp

George — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:11:00 +0000

merry xmass http://is.gd/dnwp

The Physics of Christmas

George — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:01:58 +0000

There are approximately two billion children persons under 18 in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist (except maybe in Japan) religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the Population Reference Bureau). At an average census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming that there is at least one good child in each.

Santa has about 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 967.7 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and get on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false, but will accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops or breaks. This means 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, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles per hour.

The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized Lego set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousand tons, not counting Santa himself. On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that the "flying" reindeer could pull ten times the normal amount, the job can't be done with eight or even nine of them-Santa would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch).

600,000 tons travelling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance-this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would absorb 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 vaporised 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 mps. in .001 seconds, would be subjected to acceleration forces of 17,500 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.

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George — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:01:57 +0000

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Merry Christmas…

George — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:00:20 +0000

Merry Christmas…

Snow, Gmail and.. STUFF http:/…

George — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:09:30 +0000

Snow, Gmail and.. STUFF http://is.gd/dn6s

Snow, Gmail and.. STUFF

George — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:09:29 +0000

Well, my Google Web Aps Email site broke, so I am having to use the posterous built in editor which is not as good as email, but anyway… I have a picture, but apparently, I can only put it in a post if I email it, so no pictures for you. But then, I had a massive idea - add my other email account as a contributor thing so I can still post![[posterous-content:sfBYlHs4hWeN2miLIooC]]

Its christmas eve now, but there is now snow - I looked at this Web site and guess what - OTHER COUNTRIES HAVE SNOW. This is extremely unfair. So yeah…

Anyway… what else? OK GrabUp. It’s a small app for mac which uploads your screenshots as soon as you take it. It’s incredibly useful for showing stuff to people. Cause normally you would have to take the screenshot, find site to upload it, upload it, copy link but GrabUp does it all for you so your just like command+3 … command+v and then you have pasted the link, so I find myself showing screenshots to people when I usually wouldn’t have bothered… for example - here is a screenshot of me writing this post! so it just uploaded and here is the link: http://www.grabup.com/uploads/f4cdba7e03c267c802b81ef554b7dc00.png

amazing, right? well bye then…

cya!

EDIT:

Ok right, well posterous decided to change my pic links into pics which is good to know but not what I wanted.. so fffsss

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ffs google apps webmail is bro…

George — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:47:12 +0000

ffs google apps webmail is broken http://ping.fm/rd42f