Uh... Scott
Do you now understand why there is a Santa on most street corners, in every
department store and mall..etc etc ... Thanks Mark, for putting it all in
perspective.
By the way, I still think Santa drives a Stag.
Cheers
Don
> From: Mark Hooper <mhooper@pixelsystems.com>
> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 12:27:52 -0500
> To: "'Scott A. Roberts'" <herald1200@comcast.net>, Don Spence
> <dspence@oanet.com>, triumphs@autox.team.net
> Subject: RE: SANTA CLAUS: AN ENGINEER9S PERSPECTIVE No LBC as Lucas,
> Dunlop etc just couldn't cut it
>
> Scott, Scott,,, Sigh... You wouldn't try to speed up an assembly process of
> one person five times by beating the guy and hoping he could work five times
> faster would you? Of course not. Well perhaps you would try it at first. But
> after it failed you would realise that your problem is manpower not
> motivation. Thus the true solution would be hiring an army of Santa Claus
> twins each equipped with the traditional sled and eight normal-sized
> reindeer. This might have presented some logistical problems in the past
> requiring the use of arcane arts. Today however, modern technology offers
> the much simpler solution of cloning.
>
> In any event, even if you could increase Santas thermal efficiency, I doubt
> it would serve. I think St. Nick's chances of surviving any attempt to come
> shooting over the North Pole at Mach 3, red hot and pointed at Washington,
> are unlikely to be improved by any amount of nomex or ceramic tiles. An
> effective anti-missile ECM package would be much more useful. ;^)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark Hooper
> 1972 TR6 (and it's hot red too)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott A. Roberts [mailto:herald1200@comcast.net]
> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 9:54 PM
> To: Don Spence; triumphs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: SANTA CLAUS: AN ENGINEER9S PERSPECTIVE No LBC as Lucas,
> Dunlop etc just couldn't cut it
>
>
> Let's have some fun. Why not change the parameters of the postulate: Hence,
> Santa only delivers to those children who do not follow particular religions
> which do not sponsor belief in him.- This would include some Christian sects
> as well as the aforementioned. Also, he does deliver to non-Christian
> children, when their parents allow this belief. There would probably be some
> disparity in figures.
>
> 2. Rather than loading the sleigh entirely at one point, Santa prepositions
> filled sleighs at certain points around the world, allowing the swapping out
> of empty sleighs for full ones as he came past the prepositioning points. It
> has never been stated with clarity that Santa has only one sleigh to work
> with.
>
> 3. Include in the figuring a set amount of coal, the traditional reward for
> the non-good children; This would include extra mass and weight, however, it
> could be offset by additional prepositioning points as stated above.
>
> 4. Santa's suit is red Nomex, and the sleigh is coated with ceramic tiles,
> sold by NASA to help raise funds for further operations.
>
> 5. Rudolph is actually a warp capable thrust unit replicated to look like a
> reindeer, so as not to spook the other reindeer.
>
> 6. The "Sleigh" is actually just Santa's nickname for his trusty red and
> gold, ceramic tiled '60 TR3
>
> The new postulate would be, given these parameters, could Santa NOW
> accomplish the mission previously proven highly improbable?
>
> The short answer: NO! Despite the best planning and equipment possible, the
> red and gold, ceramic tiled 1960 TR3 has a minor oil leak, the "Rudolph" was
> manufactured by Lucas, and Vicky Brit is backordered on the one and only
> part needed to make the TR3 run right. Therefore, Santa will have to call
> every parent who's child was on his lists, and advise them of the needed
> deliveries. Given the internet, there is about a 63.2% chance of success
> this way, based on the assumption everyone has a working ISP.
>
> Scott
> De-famed Engineer(of model railroads)
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