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Last I remembered, Santa only had eight reindeer.
I went to this website for the song that talks about these eight reindeer:
The moon on the breast of the new fallen snow
Gave a luster of mid-day to objects below.
When what to my wondering eyes should appear
But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer
With a little old driver so lively and quick
Well I knew in a moment, it must be St. Nick
More rapid than eagles, his coursers they came
And he whistled and he shouted and he called them by name
"On Dasher, on Dancer, on Prancer and Vixe
On Comet, on Cupid, on Donner and Blitzen!
To the top of the porch, to the top of the wall
Now, dash away, dash away, dash away all!"
The calc for Santa's strength , however, doesn't use eight.
Thanks to the success of Toy Story 3, he will have to be carrying Buzz Lightyears, which have a boxed weight of 1.2kg compared to Optimus's comparatively puny 659g. So that's 840,000 tonnes of toys, which will require 5,600,000 reindeer to pull. Given each reindeer weighs around 272kg (600lb), the whole procession will have a mass of 1 523 200 000 kg when standing still.
If someone can tell me when Santa ever had an army of reindeer for his flight around the world, I will be fine with it, and that will end the discussion here.
If not...
We need to replace 5,600,000 million reindeer with eight reindeer. That leaves us with a weight of 2,176 kg when standing still. adding the 840,000,000 kg of toys makes the total weight 840,002,176 kg being pulled.
With the revised weight, the new calc of kinetic energy is
840002176*2973177.08^2*0.5 = 3.71271804e21, Large Island Level+
I went to this website for the song that talks about these eight reindeer:
The moon on the breast of the new fallen snow
Gave a luster of mid-day to objects below.
When what to my wondering eyes should appear
But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer
With a little old driver so lively and quick
Well I knew in a moment, it must be St. Nick
More rapid than eagles, his coursers they came
And he whistled and he shouted and he called them by name
"On Dasher, on Dancer, on Prancer and Vixe
On Comet, on Cupid, on Donner and Blitzen!
To the top of the porch, to the top of the wall
Now, dash away, dash away, dash away all!"
The calc for Santa's strength , however, doesn't use eight.
Thanks to the success of Toy Story 3, he will have to be carrying Buzz Lightyears, which have a boxed weight of 1.2kg compared to Optimus's comparatively puny 659g. So that's 840,000 tonnes of toys, which will require 5,600,000 reindeer to pull. Given each reindeer weighs around 272kg (600lb), the whole procession will have a mass of 1 523 200 000 kg when standing still.
If someone can tell me when Santa ever had an army of reindeer for his flight around the world, I will be fine with it, and that will end the discussion here.
If not...
We need to replace 5,600,000 million reindeer with eight reindeer. That leaves us with a weight of 2,176 kg when standing still. adding the 840,000,000 kg of toys makes the total weight 840,002,176 kg being pulled.
With the revised weight, the new calc of kinetic energy is
840002176*2973177.08^2*0.5 = 3.71271804e21, Large Island Level+
