I seems to have come to this conclusion all of a sudden... Tt being [~LeiLa~] simply means being random... 2 wks of MIA and I've sprung up 3 entries within 1 wk, something which is totally unheard of given me busy schedule... God knows what I'll be doing next... *Slaps hands on forehead* R-i-g-h-t, tt's the whole point of being random, isn't it??? To not know what you'll be up to next till the very last min... Which is exciting in it's own strange way as it's kinda keep ppl around me in suspense... Isn't tt fun?!
Or I'm simply so deprived of attention tt I'm pulling all kinda of dumb tricks to make my presence more profound...
Anyway, as I'm done with my duty this morning and as I was making my way home, I did some stoning while waiting for the bus... My mind just jumped from 1 thought to the next w/o any warning and this time, I was thinking abt my new transition lenses... I was thinking how cool it was to have such glasses, but wouldn't it even be more special if there's such a thing as transition contact lenses??? Tt's when my mind's hand gave a bitch slap on my existing thoughts and reprimanded my brain...
'BAKA!!! Transition contact lenses don't exist because ppl wearing contact lenses can wear glasses!!! BAKA!!! Now stop dreaming and look out for the bus, you imbercile!!!'
Yupz... Tt's the typical inner thoughts when I've nth much to do... Now on to the next topic... I did tell [XP] abt a joke on how engineers dispute the myth of [Santa Claus] in patches as I couldn't remember the exact story... So now I'm gonna transfer tt joke onto this blog so tt it'll be immortalised... Just pardon any spelling mistakes... LOL...
An Engineer's View Of [Santa Claus]...
No known species of reindeer can fly, but there're 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classifed, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not completely rule out flying reindeers which only [Santa] has ever seen...
There're 2 billion children (ppl under 18 yrs old) in the world, but since [Santa] doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslims, Jewish and Buddhist children, tt reduces the workload to 15% of the total to 378 million, according to [Population Reference Bureau]... @ an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, tt's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's @ least 1 good child in each...
[Santa] has 31 hrs of [Christmas] to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the [Earth], assuming tt he travels from East to West (which seems logical)... This works out to 822.6 visits per second... This is to say tt for each Christan household with good children, [Santa] has 1/1,000 th of a sec to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks tt have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house...
Assuming tt 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 abt 0.78 miles per household, a total trip of 71.604 million miles, not counting the stops what most of us must do @ least once every 31 hrs, plus feeding etc... This means tt [Santa]'s sleigh is moving @ 650 miles per sec, 3,000 times the spd of sound... For purposes of comparision, the fastest man-made vehicle on [Earth], the [Ulysses] space probe, moves @ a poky 27.4 miles per sec... A conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles an hr...
The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element... Assuming tt each child gets nth 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 tt 'flying reindeers' could pull 10 times the normal amt, we cannot do the job with 8, or even 9... We need 214,200 reindeers... This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons... Again, for comparison, this is 4 times the weight of the [Queen Elizabeth]...
353,000 tons travelling @ 650 miles per sec creates enormous air resistance... This will heat the reindeers up in the same fashion as spacecrafts re-entering the [Earth]'s atmosphere... The lead pair of reindeers will absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each... In short, they will burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeers behind them, and creating defeaning sonic booms in their wake... The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandth of a sec... [Santa], meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal force 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'll be vaporized by now!!!
