Culture | December 26, 2010 | 9 comments

The many science fiction explanations for Santa Claus

source: http://io9.com/5717897/the-many-science-fiction-explanations-for-santa-claus

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-The notion that an immortal toymaker circumnavigates the planet every December 24 using nothing but caribou defies all logic, but Anassa Rhenisch of Science In My Fiction is determined to make St. Nick make sense. Maybe he uses ion shields?

Every December I get this one email. You know the one. It's supposedly written by a physicist, and states that Santa would have to travel so quickly he'd burn up, no reindeer team could possibly lift a sleigh carrying one doll for every Christian/secular/Christmas-celebrating child in the world, the sleigh would have to be impossibly strong to carry all that weight, etc, etc. I'm always left with a nagging feeling that somebody's using physics to further their anti-Santa agenda, and that the facts in that email cannot be the whole story.

Fortunately, the internet provides. Here are not one, but two refutations! (You'll need to scroll down to the second item on that last link.) That's an awful lot of reading, I agree, so I'll summarize the key suggestions for you, and explain what they tell us about Santa. Nice of me, no?
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