Dogs habbits
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dogs habbits
There are two billion children in the world, but since santa dosen't appear to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces his workload to 15% of the total, or 300 million. At an average rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 85.7 million homes.
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.
This works out of 767.9 visits per second. So for each household with good children, Santa has about 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the presents, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, into the sleigh and move on to the house.
Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-size Lego set (weigh about two pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as "heavy".
On land, normal reindeer could pull no more than 300 pounds, and even granting that flying reindeer could pull 10 times the normal amount, Santa's going to need 214,200 reindeers to pull his sleigh...