1. Santa has to visit 108 million homes, with about 3.5 children each.
2. Santa has 31 hours to go to all those homes, when traveling in the opposite direction of the rising sun.
3. According to the data above, Santa has to make 967.7 visits per second.
4. To do that, his sleigh must travel 650 miles per second, or 3,000 times the speed of sound.
5. If Santa traveled the speed of light, 186,282 mph, time would stand still for him, while the rest of the world aged normally. He'd go back to the North Pole and find that the Earth had aged 500 years.
6. 600,000 tons of presents are carried on his sleigh, so 600,000 tons of cargo going 650 miles per second would heat up the reindeer as much as when a space craft re-enters the atmosphere. At that rate the reindeer would absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy, per second, each. That would, under normal physics, cause the reindeer to burst instantaneously into flame, creating a deafening sonic-boom.
7. Santa would be subjected to centrifugal (pressure) forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity, and would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.
santa goes through a lot of reindeer
