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bystander
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by bystander » Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:24 pm
Santa: A Claus-et physicist
December 28, 2010 By David Zucchino,
Los Angeles Times via PhysOrg.com
All Santa skeptics, please take a look at the North Carolina State University website.
Several professors in the school's Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering recently asked their students to explore the aerodynamic and thermodynamic challenges of delivering gifts to millions of children worldwide in a single night from an airborne sleigh.
The results, posted at
web.ncsu.edu/abstract/tag/science-of-santa, posit that Santa Claus is a brilliant engineer and physicist.
(c) 2010, Los Angeles Times.
Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.
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mexhunter
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by mexhunter » Tue Dec 28, 2010 10:00 pm
7000 flights have been canceled because the storms, if airplanes used the technology of Santa Claus would not have that problem. Everything is to use something like the nose of Rudolph the reindeer.
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