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Post by Excelsior on Jul 28, 2004 2:15:46 GMT -5
but his personality is really weird i mean hes nice but mellow and mysterious and i dunno how else to describe him.............. lol another things to reveal in the prequel as to why hes so mysterious about his past........................
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Post by Melanie on Jul 28, 2004 2:19:01 GMT -5
Yeah...*dreamily sighs, again* gotta love the whole mystery guy bit.....
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Post by Excelsior on Jul 28, 2004 2:21:47 GMT -5
so many things to reveal in that preqeul i jsut hope they do cover everything........... lol so you like mystery guys?
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Post by Melanie on Jul 28, 2004 18:39:33 GMT -5
*laughs* Yeah...mysterious guys are just so..I dunno, but I have to admit, I'm attracted to them..
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Post by Excelsior on Jul 29, 2004 19:36:43 GMT -5
lol well i dunno anyone who really is like that lol
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Post by Melanie on Jul 29, 2004 21:16:29 GMT -5
*laughs* Well, it's a good thing you don't, cuz then I'd have to get to Cali....but then again, dad has to go there on Wednsday....hm..but that's with Pepsi, so I can't go..
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Post by Excelsior on Jul 29, 2004 21:42:28 GMT -5
lol well do you know any guys who are mysterious over there? lol i assume there aren't many guys like that anywhere.................... its usually like that if someone had a bad past or something.............. what part is your dad going to?
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Post by Melanie on Jul 29, 2004 22:34:17 GMT -5
Hm..*thinks for a moment* Nope, not many mystery guys around here...*sigh*
Riverside, he said..
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Post by Excelsior on Jul 29, 2004 22:57:26 GMT -5
lol so i guess your stuck with more open guys lol but that works doesn't it? lol
oh thats 3 hours from here.......... too far away
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Post by Melanie on Jul 31, 2004 1:30:29 GMT -5
Yeah..but the guy I currently have a crush on acts like Jeremie...he's sweet, kinda shy, and admittedly, somewhat of a nerd....
3 hours? That isn't that bad....
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Post by Excelsior on Jul 31, 2004 2:24:32 GMT -5
lol well thats still pretty far its around central cal i think....................
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Post by Melanie on Jul 31, 2004 20:10:44 GMT -5
Yeah, I guess..
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Post by Excelsior on Jul 31, 2004 21:55:36 GMT -5
yea so uh anything else left to talk about? lol we're really running out of things here and soon teverything will be dead lol
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Post by Excelsior on Aug 4, 2004 2:30:09 GMT -5
Is there a Santa Claus? - a physicist view
Consider the following:
1) No known species of reindeer can fly. But there are 300,000 species of 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.
2) There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.
3) Santa has 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 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 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 back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house.
Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc.
This means that 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 on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.
4) The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight.
On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that 'flying reindeer' (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine.
We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison - this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.
5) 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each.
In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second.
Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.> In conclusion - If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead now.
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Post by Melanie on Aug 5, 2004 22:33:06 GMT -5
there's no real Santa, but there really was a St. Nick who gave presents to the poor children.
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