iEaster

As Easter has just passed, it has been a tradition for many European countries that a cute little bunny with a basket full of chocolate eggs will hopping around the world delivering nice little chocolate eggs to all over the world. Now isn’t that such a sweet sweet chocolate-dreamy like dream?

Not.

It’s pretty stupid and absurd if one thinks about it. I mean seriously, A BUNNY jumping all over the world? Delivering Chocolate eggs? Firstly, bunnies do not go to supermarkets therefore how the heck does “it” get the chocolate eggs, it does not produce eggs either let alone chocolate ones. Well, while thinking about it, I was thinking about his nearest “cousin” namely: Santa Claus who does almost the same thing except at a totally different time which most of us I assure you do fondly remember called Christmas time. Now, lets look in a scientific way about Santa… (got most from the net actually)

Firstly there has been no known species of reindeer that can fly. However, 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, his wife (Mrs Santa) and his elves has seen. Next, there is an incredible estimation of 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. But since Santa doesn’t – apparently – handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children and other non-Christian religions since that makes you bad, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total – a mere 378 million (according to the Population Census Bureau). This gives us an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that’s 91.8 million homes across the world. Now, let’s just presume there is at least one good child to each home.

Now 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. It’s not 24 hours since it is night at one place e.g. USA whereas its day in another e.g. Australia. This works out to an average of 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/drink whatever snacks or milk have been left, get back up the chimney, get into the sleigh, and move on to the next house. Now Santa sure going to turn thin by the end of the day, great fat-burning method seriously. (Now Santa is probably so fat just like other creatures in cold weather, I believe its called blubber in whales, to keep him warm in the cold cold North pole.)

Assuming that these 91,800,000 (Ninety one Million and Eight Hundred thousand) stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false, but which for purposes of our calculations we shall accept it making it so much easier), we are now talking about 0.76 miles per household, a total trip of 75,500,000 (Seventy five Million and five Hundred thousand) miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours such has shitting, bathing and other assorted stuff. I would really hate to receive something from him on second thought, just the smell would kill me. This means that Santa’s sled is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times faster than the speed of sound which is 330m/sec. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a lousy 27.4 miles per second. A conventional/normal reindeer can run at tops, 15 miles per hour. Wonderful flying reindeers. Amazing!

Next comes the weight, something most people may have forgotten already. The payload on the sleigh is another interesting element seriously. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized Lego set (2 pounds which is equivalent to 0.90718 kg thus roughly 1kg), the results in the sleigh carrying a whooping 321,300 tons, not inclusive of good old Santa, who has been invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional/normal reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds (136.07771 kg which I’ll round up to 150kg actually since 2 pounds is roughly 1 kg). Even granting the ability of ‘flying reindeer’ (see top) to pull perhaps ten times the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight or even nine flying reindeers (one of the we would know as Rudolph the red nose reindeer) . We need much much MUCH more. Actually, we need a total of 214,191 more, amounting to a total of 214,200 reindeer. Nice! This increases the payload – not counting the weight of the sleigh – to 353,420 tons. Again, for comparison, this is four times the weight of the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth.

This crazy amount of 353,000 tons of mass traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance, which will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecraft re-entering the earth’s atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14,300,000,000,000,000,000 (14.3 quintillion) joules of energy (I had never gone past the zillion number: million, billion, trillion, zillion…). Per second. Each. Thus, in short, they will almost instantaneously burst into flames, exposing the reindeer behind them, who will repeat the process, and they will also create deafening sonic booms in their wake. This perhaps is the first fireworks in the western world! The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. An old jolly Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to acceleration forces of 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound (113.39809 kg about 125kg) Santa which seems ludicrously slim since his been depicted as a insanely overweight beer belly fat ass man would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds (1.957, 257.8804 kg or roughly more than 2 million kg) of force. I can’t imagine his fat cheeks flabbing from that force, hahaha!

Thus in conclusion, if Santa ever did deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he is obviously dead by now.

Please people who have read this, do not go screaming and whining to me that I have just ruined your dream and start saying I’ll get a lousy lump of coal in my stockings this year (like sif I even have one at all) for this. And no, I’ll not get a bag full of it either. To those who insist Santa still does exist and have prove by having disappeared snacks, well science can’t prove everything can it? This was not meant to convert people into my thinking btw, so pls don debate over it with me.

Soooooo, IF Santa can’t do it, how the heck does a lousy hopping bunny with no flying reindeers do the job of delivering chocolate eggs around the world?

iSociety

Have one ever wondered how arrogent man-kind is? Like seriously? We look back at the past people and say they are primitive, they are backward and we are far more advance since we are their decendants and being in the future. I feel that i'm also guilty of this too sometimes. I once, twice, trice came across this saying: Dumb animals can't talk. Like sif, people say it because animals do not talk in our language. Think about it, i do not go to Africa and call the people dumb just because they "can't talk" which they do, unless they are dumb (unable to speak). this dumb they are talking here is refering to stupid etc. Now, to continue the example of Africans, they do talk, i just do not understand it. Similarly, dogs do bark and go "woof woof" to each other, they understand each other, they don call us dumb humans (well not that i'll ever know if they do). Scientist has noted and proven that whales and dolphins communicate through the sounds they give out in the deep deep water. Oh how arrogent man kind is.



Now i'm not one of those animal lovers or part of the help to save the world planet but this is what i have been seeing and noticing.



Remember the point about we looking back in the past and saying we are technically more advance? Well for one thing, Chinese had this acupuncture thingy for many many years. Did u know that they are using it in America now? In the hospitals? Scientist and doctors do not understand how it works, nor do they know why it works, but they do know it works and thats all thats important.



Actually if u think about it, the most technologically advance country in the world America is really similar to an ancient country. Please do not come to me and debate over this issue cause no matter what, if ur adament on which side your on, u will always be on that side. Of course there wil be differences etc, just like how ancient Rome are different from the people in medieval times but no matter, they are similar.



Now, America, a very technologically advance city, like seriously they are. Surveys and reports are shown that many school kids are actually pretty clueless, like they don know stuff at all. Maths, History everything! They are weak in it. Then you go: wait a second, there is Harvard University, the best university in the world. i know smart/talented people that are americans. Similarly to Ancient countries which i'll use China, the nobility (or rather known as the aristocrat or ruling class) had the vast amounts of knowledge which many people in America do. Many Americans do have vast amounts of knowledge, knowing many details and many important scientific facts inclusive of arts, culture etc. But majority do not, just like how the peasents won't know shit, they do know some the basics and get mixed up over many other "important facts" thus the saying: a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.



Next the question, if America is similar to an ancient country, then where are all the aristocrats? easy, they are what is considered as brands. Looking back at ancient countries, there are rich people but more importantly, there are the nobles and not only are they rich most of the time, but they have a clan. We can see this from Japan, a very good example as many old/ancient clan surviving up to this day. Brands like Mac-donalds, Gucci, Nike are what a noble is in the current society. They do go "pok-kai" sometimes and thus fall out from society but looking back in history, this happens to many nobles and clans who have fallen out of the king's grace or did something really stupid thus causing the society to hate them making them disappear and becoming "one of us commoners".



Then come the most obvious question, where is the king? well for America, we have the good old president of America. Now most of u will go a wtf we elected him thing. Now thinking about it, many kings in Ancient societys have kings that people love and hate. Well George Bush is a classic example of one that many people that do not like, and perhaps Abraham Lincon (is that the right spelling?) has been a beloved icon for many Americans. Sometimes "kings" go out of place and thus falling out of grace of a large bulk of society and getting kicked out of the thrown and having another placed on it. Well the Bible has shown David taking over the throne of Saul, but the falling out of grace was with God not with man. (though its shown that many people in the population loved David more than Saul). Similarly, Presidents come and go, so do kings. Their desendants that take over like ancient times for modern society are really those people who are in the same party (the democratic, the republic, etc).



Thus i have established the common link of a king, nobles, normal people and distribution of knowledge between the an ancient country and America now. Please do not get me wrong that i'm saying America is an ancient country but saying they are really similar to them. Now really what gives us the right to laugh at "Cave mans" since music is starting to head into that direction of crazyly loud music, screaming and shouting found in hard rock music and heavy metal music. This shows that society is really the same, changing here and there but in the end it comes back to the square one. Thus, with whom i am, with what i know, its really important to know that there is nothing new under the sun and be humbled by it. Don't be proud and live each day happily.

iEvent

Its been awhile since i last left a post.

This new year has been an eventful year already, strengthening friendships, new friendships that i couldn't think possible and some stuff happening to me.

Its always in a person's imagination, how one can take on another, how one can take another 3 people on. Technically in theory it works but when it comes to that time, time freezes. Now thinking about it, is it not true? A person with a parachute despite perhaps 3 years of training and theory work knows that his parachute is safe, the wind is not treacherous and he is in great hands. Yet before he jumps he looks down and hesitates.

After this first time experience, its as if part of his mind has been opened, a whole new world to be conquered. He will be able to jump the next time without that blank in his mind, moving his leg forward. Now there is always the fact that he is unconfident etc but the point is that it is much easier the next time.

I've been thinking alot this days, despite being really busy,thoughts just keep poping in my head, not consistantly but more than comfort i guess.

Well, below are pictures of my friend's Birthday (tanny) "the Thai Kid that follows me around" nah, just joking but his one of my Food Science good friend.

just to note, we threw eggs and flour at him explaining his ragged look (makes no difference actually haha)