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[Goonie Goat]

Wtf

 

[Sun Ra]

Police officer disguised as the Grinch leads drug bust in Peru

An undercover police officer dressed as the famous Dr. Seuss character went "unnoticed" before dismantling a drug trafficking gang in Lima.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Old Ant]

Wtf

Someone has to say it ‘ her haircut is the least of her problems ‘

 

[itchybro]

drones replacing birds ay , could be because wind turbines kill over 1.2 million birds a year in the US , number of deaths are growing as more wind farms are added to the landscape , i guess we're heading in the same direction , wonder what the duck shooting protestors will do when death by wind turbine outweigh deaths by bullet

 

[Indy]

On the surface, the footprint and damage to local ecosystems of these wind farms is on par with fracking operations. The roads and infrastructure they got to lay down is phenomenal, and just ends up ripping the countryside apart.

I was all for wind farms until learnt that one.

 

[Mellow oldfark]

In Australia at least the windfarms are very questionable.
Sedge had a good article on Aussie windfarm scandle.

 

[Rabbitlicker]

Let’s examine the facts:

1. There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18 in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Jewish or Buddhist 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.

2. 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.

3. 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, by another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch).

4. 600,000 tons travelling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance --- this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft re-entering 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 centrifugal 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 pink goo.


Therefore, if Santa did exist, he’s dead now!

Don't get me started on Pagan Solstice-celebrations, planetary conjunctions, immaculate conceptions or any other bullshit peddled by the multitude of Christian denominations at this time of year.

 

[med180]

Let’s examine the facts:

1. There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18 in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Jewish or Buddhist 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.

2. 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.

3. 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, by another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch).

4. 600,000 tons travelling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance --- this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft re-entering 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 centrifugal 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 pink goo.


Therefore, if Santa did exist, he’s dead now!

Don't get me started on Pagan Solstice-celebrations, planetary conjunctions, immaculate conceptions or any other bullshit peddled by the multitude of Christian denominations at this time of year.

Santa is magic like his younger brother Jesus Mate

 

[Love to grow]

Let’s examine the facts:

1. There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18 in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Jewish or Buddhist 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.

2. 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.

3. 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, by another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch).

4. 600,000 tons travelling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance --- this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft re-entering 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 centrifugal 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 pink goo.


Therefore, if Santa did exist, he’s dead now!

Don't get me started on Pagan Solstice-celebrations, planetary conjunctions, immaculate conceptions or any other bullshit peddled by the multitude of Christian denominations at this time of year.

Your on the naughty list ya don’t believe ya don’t receive and you forgot to add all the time eatin cookies n drinkin frothys his Fkn awesome Santa the credit taking cunt

 

[Goonie Goat]

Here's the next best thing.

Santa busted with a crack pipe

No wonder he’s so jolly! A volunteer Santa Claus landed himself on the “naughty” list in New Jersey when he was busted with a crack pipe, police said Tuesday. Charles Smith, 66, was dri…

nypost.com

 

[Rabbitlicker]

Oh dear! Have I inadvertently created a rift between Jesus/Santa-believers & those with more than 2 braincells to rub together?

Please forgive me (it's the right "Christian" thing to do, after all).

I shall retire to the nearest available cloister & recite several "Hail-Mary's" whilst thrashing myself senseless, before I tuck-in to all the seafood, turkey, goose & all the lavish trimmings we've been told to consume by the advertisers.

 

[Love to grow]

Here's the next best thing.

Santa busted with a crack pipe

No wonder he’s so jolly! A volunteer Santa Claus landed himself on the “naughty” list in New Jersey when he was busted with a crack pipe, police said Tuesday. Charles Smith, 66, was dri…

nypost.com

So that’s y his so fast meth I woulda never thought it

 

[Sun Ra]

So that’s y his so fast meth I woulda never thought it

Glass BBQ Santa operator - more common than you'd think.

I remember taking my daughter to Westfield Southland (VIC) years ago for the chat and photo on Santa's knee.

She would have been 3 at the time and when it was her turn I noticed Santa had an obvious visible hard on.

I wasn't going to let her sit on his lap so we got out of their fast.

Can't remember what bullshit I came up with to explain things to my daughter who was upset about not meeting Santa.

EDIT: She's 23 now - so it was 20 years ago.

 

[Johnny Walker]

drones replacing birds ay , could be because wind turbines kill over 1.2 million birds a year in the US , number of deaths are growing as more wind farms are added to the landscape , i guess we're heading in the same direction , wonder what the duck shooting protestors will do when death by wind turbine outweigh deaths by bullet

Wind energy and birdlife

The impact of human activities on wildlife is widespread, especially from energy production. Wind power can save wildlife and birds as it displaces environment-damaging fossil fuels from the energy grid. A 2013 study estimated that the full life cycle of fossil fuel energy production - from...

www.re-alliance.org.au

 

[afghan bob]

Oh dear! Have I inadvertently created a rift between Jesus/Santa-believers & those with more than 2 braincells to rub together?

Please forgive me (it's the right "Christian" thing to do, after all).

I shall retire to the nearest available cloister & recite several "Hail-Mary's" whilst thrashing myself senseless, before I tuck-in to all the seafood, turkey, goose & all the lavish trimmings we've been told to consume by the advertisers.

Santa is an astral traveller and his elves are in 2 quantum dimensions
He is also known 2 practise dimensional shifting
Rudolf has a degree in interstellar planet hopping and has been seen hanging out with Borg reindeer
So why question anything

 

[Rabbitlicker]

Santa is an astral traveller and his elves are in 2 quantum dimensions
He is also known 2 practise dimensional shifting
Rudolf has a degree in interstellar planet hopping and has been seen hanging out with Borg reindeer
So why question anything

WOW!!!! There I was, thinking that Stargate SG-1 & Star Trek were just television Sci-Fi!!

 

[afghan bob]

The truth is out there my friend, all u have 2 do is ...........BELIEVE
[and indulge in copius amounts of oil]

 

[veritas629]

Santa rips Haze grown from pre-pre-Neville seeds. It gives a psychedelic sleigh ride that defies both physics and Border Force laws. Rudolph guides him through the time dilation and munchies. Everyone knows this.

 

[Sedge]

22 sec

 

[HGO]

Elons new Bitch