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Brag Forum / Re: 12 DAY OF CHRISTMAS
« on: November 29, 2012, 05:30:53 am »
very very nice work
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Brag Forum / Re: YOUR OPINION PLEASE
« on: November 29, 2012, 05:29:38 am »
Thats just awesome, like it lots
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The Coffee Shop / Santa is a myth - Proof at last!!!! Sorry Kids
« on: November 28, 2012, 07:03:56 pm »There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world.
However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist (except maybe in Japan) religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the Population Reference Bureau). At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming that there is at least one good child in each.
Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 967.7 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and get on to the next house.
Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false, but will accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops or breaks.
This means Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second - 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles per hour. The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized Lego set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousand tons, not counting Santa himself. On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that the "flying" reindeer could pull ten times the normal amount, the job can't be done with eight or even nine of them-Santa would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch).
600,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft reentering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team would be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reached the fifth house on
his trip. Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 m.p.s. In .001 seconds, would be subjected to acceleration forces of 17,500 g's. A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of red goo.
Therefore, if Santa did exist, he's dead now.
Merry Christmas.
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Pattern Requests. / Eagle
« on: November 28, 2012, 03:36:28 pm »
some time agosomeone posted a picture of an Eagle soaring, and beside it was the words You are the wind beneath my wings. Does anyone know where I can buy the eagle pattern from? it was perfect for what I want but I cant find it anywhere.
Keith
Keith
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Introduce Yourself. / Re: Hello from the UK
« on: November 28, 2012, 02:02:20 pm »
Kev, thought I'd better warn you, don't go on horseback to visit Rob Roy in Scotland as he's the biggest horse thief in the forum!!! (next to Gabby that is lol) Seriously though I don't think you could find a better bunch of lads and lasses than we have in this forum.
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The Coffee Shop / Re: Pin Cushion
« on: November 28, 2012, 01:49:13 pm »
Hey Marg, hope you feel better soon, best wishes and (((Hugs)))
Keefie.
Keefie.
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The Coffee Shop / Re: Large Anaconda Found
« on: November 28, 2012, 01:46:37 pm »
nice one Russ, spilt my coffee yet again, I will eventually learn to put coffee down before watching these lol 
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The Coffee Shop / Re: Ghost in the Elevator
« on: November 28, 2012, 01:43:38 pm »
If that happened to me in an elevator, I can confirm the elevator would't be able to go up any further - due to the sudden increase in excess weight that would have appeared
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Brag Forum / Re: Christmas Wordart by Mahendra
« on: November 28, 2012, 01:41:24 pm »
great job Frank, thanks for sharing.
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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: New clock project
« on: November 28, 2012, 01:38:04 pm »
ouch - but as you say better now than later when it all done.
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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Not happy
« on: November 28, 2012, 01:37:10 pm »
I know it doesn't help knowing we have all done it at some time, but you had the right idea, just start something else and go back to making a new portrait later. (and have a beer/wine or something stronger to cheer you up - purely medicinal of course)
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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Last Show of 2012!
« on: November 28, 2012, 01:32:03 pm »
I, had my last show last week, this week I had a phone order for 2 crosses, one with Bobby and one with Frank in the middle of them, while I am cutting those I had another phone call from Wheal Jane Mine, they want 50 of my woodturned trinket boxes made in Yew (at ?10 a time thats a nice order) so guess what I'm making for the next couple of weeks lol.
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Introduce Yourself. / Re: Hello from the UK
« on: November 28, 2012, 01:26:38 pm »
Hi Kev, welcome to the forum, I'm Keith from Cornwall
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The Coffee Shop / Re: From an Ol Navy Chief (not me)
« on: November 28, 2012, 07:19:41 am »
needed good laugh and that gave it to me
