Well folks, 'tis the season. It's time to sit on the lap of that jolly old guy in a red suit and ask him what we want.
Who knows, if you've been nice, it just might happen...
Now as a Devil, I know some underground secrets and I will reveal one to you right here right now. I know the true identity of Santa. He even posts on these boards. Around here, he goes by the name of Allwine. (http://boards.lineage2.com/showprofile.php?Cat=0&User=2885)
Many of his helpers are also helping him out and are reading, so who knows, your wish could just happen if it's reasonable.
If you can tell me how I unmasked the REAL Santa, I will give you a special candy cane treat.
Ok, in closing, here is my wish for Santa...
char name : Darkmotion
Server : Several.
Wish : I want to take a Dragon ride.
I know I've been pretty naughty and my wish is pretty unreasonable, but hey ! Bite me ! :p
Napels Fl. heh..
I lived there for 6 yrs and my daughter was born there....
I know how you found out who it was, You saw my ol'lady kissing him last year. Sooo needless to say, if i see him this year i got a 12 gauge for his jolly ol' butt...
What i want for christmas? For my ol' lady to come back to me and quit dreaming about the kiss from the old fat guy.
You have pictures as proof (which is also the real reason you were 'let go') but can't show them because the GM's (also known as Santa's Elves) have threatened you with permenant KOS until you are level 1 again :p
I always make it a point to post this at least once every holiday season on a board I frequent. I was going to make my own topic for it, but it seems o-so appropriate here.... :eek:
As a result of an overwhelming lack of requests, and with research help from that renown scientific journal SPY magazine (January, 1990) - I am pleased to present the annual scientific inquiry into Santa Claus.
1) No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.
2) There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.
3) Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc.
This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man- made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.
4) The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison - this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.
5) 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.
In conclusion - If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead now.
I wish for composite helmet, composite boots, and some gloves that fit well wth composite on a male LE to appear in my inventory while i am on my vacation!
I wish for composite helmet, composite boots, and some gloves that fit well wth composite on a male LE to appear in my inventory while i am on my vacation!
Allwine put up money IRL for a website that i havent visited yet. now gime my 10Millions adenas for Christmas or else!!!
Well, you WIN ! But you don't win 10 million adena.
I told you the prize was a tasty candy treat. You get the joy to share your prize will all the peeps who missed this shot Romanova put up for halloween...
And to that person trying to "science" his way out of this, is HELL endothermic or exothermic ?
As a kid, I had this uncle. He wasn't really an uncle, he was just a friend of the family. However, he used to take my brother and me in a toy store, and then say :
Choose anything you want in here, it's yours. Best feeling a kid can feel being with his brother on a shopping spree for 1 item.
OMG this souvenir is engraved in my mind. To me, that "uncle" was the impersonation of Santa himself.
And to that person trying to "science" his way out of this, is HELL endothermic or exothermic ?
Both, but neither. :eek:
That is all. :p
Hmmm, no. WRONG. I have covered this subject under the rule of Ash. He changed Mistryl to Orfen, in a brilliant piece of moderation. The thread has been deleted by now.
Oh here is another wish... I wish I could have my threads back from when I started. I'd have material for a great book...
Oh, and Mr. Science guy. Wich is better : Multiple lines (like say a supermarket) or a single line (like say a bank) ?