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| Thread ID: 28610 | 2002-12-24 17:35:00 | Post anything you like here to be eligible to win a Christmas Day prize | robo (205) | Press F1 |
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| 108825 | 2002-12-24 21:29:00 | Merry Xmas to all from a wintery South, My best pressie was the joy I got from watching the expressions of two of my grandchildren as they opened their gifts. Have a beaut festive season, Cheers,Kiwitas,;-) |
Kiwitas (514) | ||
| 108826 | 2002-12-24 21:34:00 | :-) "Merry Xmas to all" - I hope everybody has a fun family day, and for any of us driving to and from family be sure to drive safely out there :-) We aren't really doing pressies this year as such (no children), but upgraded the puter a month back as our early pressie. We are off to see our nephew and give him his pressies soon, which is a real buzz for us and makes the day. The weather down here in the manawatu isn't that great - cloudy and showers so far, but at least its cool, I hate it when its too hot!! Have a great day everybody :-) |
J ZEP (336) | ||
| 108827 | 2002-12-24 21:41:00 | MERRY XMAS TO ALL!!! HO HO HO! lol i got a new hardrive, i got a new hardrive, i got a new hardrive hey hey hey! (singing in little rascles "i got a pickle" tune) Also, i got the SW Ep 2 DVD, so i better not win that :p hope everyones has a great day! |
fergie (424) | ||
| 108828 | 2002-12-24 21:45:00 | Merry Christmas to all from the centre of the North Island. I was off to work at 5:00 am but got an early mark so I'm home now. Just me here ( and the cat )! Means I can sit here and field any questions I can answer on PressF1 for those that can't get their Christmas presents to work. :-) |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 108829 | 2002-12-24 21:47:00 | Merry Christmas everyone, hope you all do something special today . My son got me up at 6:30am, so I feel as though I'd love to go back to bed already . My son was very happy with what Santa brought him this year (a Storm Hopper) its a remote control car thing . Very fast and does jumps etc . I'm sure you would all enjoy it as much as my son . I got a new computer chair, very comfortable I must say, its great it means I can sit longer at the computer and not get an aching back!!! (Better than the dining room chair I've been perched on . ) Mandy |
Mandy Fisher (2108) | ||
| 108830 | 2002-12-24 21:56:00 | ho ho ho! www.kerb.co.uk |
BIFF (1) | ||
| 108831 | 2002-12-24 22:02:00 | I`m upset!!!! Santa didn`t listen to me!! I wanted a bike---beyblade---remote control car---skateboard---dolls pram---barbie doll--- WHICH ONE OF YOU F 1`s TOLD SANTA I AM 55 YEARS OLD!!! SPOILSPORTS!! |
Roseyglow (2770) | ||
| 108832 | 2002-12-24 22:03:00 | ENABLING TECHNOLOGY: Although no known species of reindeer can fly, there are 300,000 living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen. TARGET POPULATION: Discounting all Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, Santa reportedly serves 378 million Christian kids, nearly 15% of the planets 2 billion children. At an average census of 3.5 children per household, presuming at least one good child in each, that's 91.8 million homes. DELIVERY CONSTRAINTS: Assuming a delivery strategy optimized for different time zones and the rotation of the earth, Santa travels east to west for 31 hours of Christmas, making 822.6 visits per second. This means Santa has about 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get up the chimney and back into the sleigh and proceed to the next house. VELOCITY: Assuming, for the purposes of calculation, that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth, we are now talking about .78 miles per household, over 75.5 million miles. Santa's sleigh moves at 650 miles per second or 3000 times the speed of sound. The Ulysses space probe, our fastest man-made vehicle, pokes along at 27.4 miles per second, and conventional reindeer run 15 miles per hour tops. LOADING FACTORS: Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized, 2 pound lego set, the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting portly Santa. On land, conventional reindeer can pull 300 pounds. Granting "flying reindeer" (see point #1) pull TEN TIMES that amount, we need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload--without the sleigh--to 353,430 tons, four times that of the Queen Elizabeth. CHALLENGES: 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance, heating the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecraft reentering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 quintillion joules per second...each. Therefore, Santa's reindeer must have a special capability which keeps them from bursting into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them whilst creating deafening sonic booms in their wake. Otherwise, the entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Meanwhile, Santa must successfully deal with centrifugal forces 17,500 times greater than gravity, which, even at a trim 250-pounds, would pin Santa to the back of the sleigh with 4 million pounds of force. CONCLUSION: If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's either go one hell of an engineering team, or he's dead now! |
Dunno Anon (2431) | ||
| 108833 | 2002-12-24 22:18:00 | Biff I sent your Christmas message all around the world---any more where that came from??? Where do you find these great sites?? |
Roseyglow (2770) | ||
| 108834 | 2002-12-24 22:31:00 | Merry Christmas to all! Drive safely :) |
segfault (655) | ||
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