How fast does santa travel

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North Carolina State University. That would be the same force on Santa as stacking three sky scrapers on top of him! They tend to burn up in the atmosphere! Oh and the reindeers too of course. Sorry Rudolph! The faster something moves through the air, the more heat it generates. Now because Santa is travelling so fast, we need to get rid of this build-up of heat before it can hurt him or worse.

Now, with Santa moving as fast as he does, we need to dissipate — that means get rid of — 57 trillion Joules of heat every second to avoid him burning up like a meteor. This conundrum gave our crack team of engineering elves quite a headache but they came up with a brilliant solution to keep Santa safe whilst allowing him to keep the speed up. Then, to counter the effect of air resistance, they created the most advanced heat shield ever made protecting both the reindeer and Santa.

We did once experiment with a more aerodynamically advanced vehicle that pushed the air in front of the sleigh out of the way, leaving only a smooth breeze — a little bit of oxygen for Santa to breathe.

Researchers now believe that Santa and his team of elves have worked out a way to stretch time, creating something called relativity clouds, allowing him much more time to get the job done. The best food, health, entertainment and lifestyle content from the irishexaminer. The best food, health, entertainment and lifestyle content from the Irish Examiner, direct to your inbox. Appliance of Science: How fast does Santa travel?

Now that the big question of whether Santa can travel due to COVID restrictions has been answered, he definitely can , there are still a few other questions lingering; like how does Santa do it all? How do the elves do it? How many toys do they have to make? An overloaded sleigh Aoife is eight and she would like to know how the sleigh can fly with all the presents in it?

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