@tsarstepan,
What part of space wizards with magic swords do you not understand?
@tsarstepan,
This guy is such a wet blanket.
@tsarstepan,
Wow, now is he going to explain why Santa would burst into flames if he flew all over the world in one night?
@engineer,
I like the ones about how much he has to poop if he eats all of the cookies....
One of my favorite thought exercises is something I read thirty or forty years ago. It runs that you can defeat the Santa Claus hypothesis with math, without ever considering reindeer flight systems or elven sweat shops at the North Pole. The proposition is that if Santa spent only one second at each house, from sundown on December 24th until sunrise on December 25th, and moved instantaneously from house to house, he couldn't cover North America, never mind Europe or the rest of the planet.
@InfraBlue,
InfraBlue wrote:
This guy is such a wet blanket.
True geeks revel in both the fantasy in which suspension of disbelief is necessary and the science that attempt to explain a possible real world scenario where these things could exist.
@Setanta,
Well, geez. If you posit teleportation, why visit the houses at all?
Teleport in the presents, teleport out the cookies.
Boom! Done!
@DrewDad,
How long is that gonna take, and how many houses to teleport to in North America and Europe? Even beaming down to the latest lame planet in
Star Truck took at least a second.
@Setanta,
ya do it with fibre optics and lotsa transporters. My work is done here!
@Setanta,
That's just a matter of having enough teleporter capacity to service all of your clients. Simple enough to calculate.
Ah yes, the internet, where people can argue endlessly; not because there's a point, but just because they can.
@Setanta,
Probably easier to just believe that Santa makes all of his visits simultaneously. He's just a quantum mechanic who likes to deliver toys.
@DrewDad,
With a Santa hologram in case anyone wakes up during the teleportation sequences.
@jespah,
Nah, he can't be observed any more than an electron can....
