There are approximately 2 billion children in the world. But since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist religions, this reduces his workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million.
At an average rate of 3.5 children per household that comes to 108 million homes, presuming there is at least one good child in each.
Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to do his work due to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west. This works out to 967.7 visits a second.
Santa has 1/1000 of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, select the correct presents, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, slap the rest of the presents under the tree, eat and drink whatever was put out for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and go to the next house.
His sleigh will be moving at 650 miles an second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. The sleigh is also going to weigh over 500,000 tons, not counting Santa himself. And lets not even think about the G forces he will consistently experience starting and stopping.
A conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds, so instead of 8 or 9 of them Santa will need around 360,000 reindeer (thats a LOT of doggy doo bags people).
So next time you are having a bad day, spare him a thought.
At an average rate of 3.5 children per household that comes to 108 million homes, presuming there is at least one good child in each.
Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to do his work due to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west. This works out to 967.7 visits a second.
Santa has 1/1000 of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, select the correct presents, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, slap the rest of the presents under the tree, eat and drink whatever was put out for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and go to the next house.
His sleigh will be moving at 650 miles an second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. The sleigh is also going to weigh over 500,000 tons, not counting Santa himself. And lets not even think about the G forces he will consistently experience starting and stopping.
A conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds, so instead of 8 or 9 of them Santa will need around 360,000 reindeer (thats a LOT of doggy doo bags people).
So next time you are having a bad day, spare him a thought.
hes santa, he can do whatever he wants
