Questions for Santa.

[brewer]

Is it true what atheists say, that your a slave owner of midgets?

[Edwardo Piet]

If you expect the children to always behave themselves or you'll limit their prezzies, then how come you are one of the big bad Four Horsemen of atheism?



















^ Dis is you yesh?

[vorlon13]

Is Rudolphs nose red due to the friction with the air while flying at relativistic speeds?

TFTFY

[Fireball]

Is Rudolphs nose red due to the friction with the air while flying at relativistic speeds?

TFTFY

Yup; given the amount of time taken to deliver everything, he'd have to move at relativistic speeds.

[ignoramus]

Santa,
Is there a technical reason why you reside in the north pole?
People say it's to hide from the IRA and also so parents can't find you when the cheap Chinese toys break inside the warranty period.

[vorlon13]

Relativistic flight inside the earth's atmosphere would be a rather dramatic event.

Also, the flight path would necessarily be curved and bremsstrahlung radiation would be quite directional and possibly even randomly focused in places so in addition to the staggering devastation expected from straight line paths over the earth's surface, the bremsstrahlung radiation would create spots and streaks of enhanced damage scattered all about. I'd wonder if brilliant flashes of radiation might even impinge on the moon and damage it's surface too.

And it's a given, aliens watching the earth from afar would notice something BIG had occurred!

[Fireball]

Relativistic flight inside the earth's atmosphere would be a rather dramatic event.

Also, the flight path would necessarily be curved and bremsstrahlung radiation would be quite directional and possibly even randomly focused in places so in addition to the staggering devastation expected from straight line paths over the earth's surface, the bremsstrahlung radiation would create spots and streaks of enhanced damage scattered all about.  I'd wonder if brilliant flashes of radiation might even impinge on the moon and damage it's surface too.

And it's a given, aliens watching the earth from afar would notice something BIG had occurred!

Cosmic rays and neutrinos can get away with it, as well as some other particles. But an ensemble of that many moles of material would indeed make a mess of things.