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How fast does Santa Claus need to travel in order to stop at every house?
The land area of the world is 57-million square miles, and there are about a billion households that have at least one good little boy or girl. That's 16 families per square mile, or an average separation of 1/4 mile. He needs, in 24 hours, to cover a 1/4-mile segment one billion times, or 250 million miles. That would require maintaining an average speed of a million miles an hour. Allowing for acceleration and deceleration, and cookie stops, he'd be cruising at over 2-million mph, about 1/300 of the speed of light. Which explains why he never seems to get older.
Right, I missed a decimal place. The average velocity would have to be 10-million mph, the same as my calculation of 250-million miles in 24 hours. I'mm surprised that I and somebody else independently came up with similar estimates of the distance to be traveled, but the above doesn't explain how they arrived at the distance traveled.
How fast does Santa Claus need to travel in order to stop at every house?
The land area of the world is 57-million square miles, and there are about a billion households that have at least one good little boy or girl. That's 16 families per square mile, or an average separation of 1/4 mile. He needs, in 24 hours, to cover a 1/4-mile segment one billion times, or 250 million miles. That would require maintaining an average speed of a million miles an hour. Allowing for acceleration and deceleration, and cookie stops, he'd be cruising at over 2-million mph, about 1/300 of the speed of light. Which explains why he never seems to get older.
Well, however fast he's going, he missed my house. I didn't get jack
Must have some kind of gadget that keeps Santa and his reindeer from causing huge booms.
He's working with NASA in perfecting the Quiet Spike. Super secret. Santa had to get a security clearance.
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