The document calculates various details regarding Santa's Christmas journey including: - Santa must visit over 91 million homes delivering gifts to over 2 billion children worldwide. - Given the speed needed to complete his route, Santa would be subjected to centrifugal forces nearly 17,000 times stronger than gravity, vaporizing him and the reindeer instantly. - For Santa to realistically complete his task by Christmas, multiple physical impossibilities regarding time, speed, and payload capacity would need to be ignored.

2. • 2 billion children (persons
under 18) in the world
• Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and
Buddhist kids excluded 
-85% work = 378 million
• 3.5 children/ household 
91.8 million homes

3. • Santa has 31 hours
thanks to time
zones and the
rotation of the Earth
(assuming he
travels east to west)
• 822.6 visits per
second
• 1/1000th of a second
to do everything

4. • Stops evenly
distributed
• 126 km/household
• Total of 121.5 million
km

5. • Every family 
1 cookie + 2.5 dl 2% milk
• 225 calories
(cookie=100, milk=125 )
• Nr of calories/house × nr
of homes (225 × 91.8 ×
1000000=20,665,000,000)
• 1 kg = 7700 calories
• Nr of calories / nr of
calories in 1 kg = Santa
gains 2683,7 tons

6. • Each child- 1 medium-sized
lego set
• 321,300 tons not counting
Santa
• Average reindeer can pull
circa 140 kg.
• Statement: „flying reindeer”
can 10 times more
• We need 214,200 reindeer
• Total payload: 353,430 tons
(4x Queen Elisabeth)

7. • 1046 km / second 
3,000 times the speed
of sound
• Ulysses space probe
(fastest manmade
vehicle): 45 km/second
• An average reindeer
can run 24 km/
hour, tops.

8. • 353,000 tons travelling at
a 1000 km/s speed 
enormous air resistence
• Heat the reindeer up
• The lead pair of reindeer
will absorb 14.3
QUINTILLION joules of
energy. Per second. Each.
• Deafening sonic bombs

9. Result
• Santa subjected to
centrifugal forces about
17,000 times bigger than
gravity pinned to the
back of his sleigh by
around 1 950 000 kgs of
force
• The entire team will be
vaporized within 4,26
thousandth of a second