2010-12-01, 09:56 PM
1.) You forgot that Santa has a naughty and nice list. You're assuming that every child is nice. Consequently, you forgot to calculate the weight of coal, which is undoubtably much lighter than 2 pounds per piece.
2.) You don't have any sources cited, except one. For all I know, that 3.5 children per household figure could include those heathen Indians, who don't worship Christmas.
3.) Unexplored phenomena may be at work here, such as time travel. Making science work on something we don't know anything about is a fallacy.
4.) You're assuming the reindeer would spontaneously combust due to air friction. What about the sun? It is traveling through space at over 250 million light years per hour, and it hasn't been vaporized from sheer energy, or space matter.
2.) You don't have any sources cited, except one. For all I know, that 3.5 children per household figure could include those heathen Indians, who don't worship Christmas.
3.) Unexplored phenomena may be at work here, such as time travel. Making science work on something we don't know anything about is a fallacy.
4.) You're assuming the reindeer would spontaneously combust due to air friction. What about the sun? It is traveling through space at over 250 million light years per hour, and it hasn't been vaporized from sheer energy, or space matter.