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Re: Santa (Physics, you gotta love it! : ) )
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Thu, 21 Dec 2000 22:49:54 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Scott Edward Sanburn writes:

This is an oldie but a goodie (not as good as "is hell endo or exothermic"
but a goodie).

It has one major flaw though...

This assumption:

Assuming that each of these 91.8 million houses are distributed evenly
(which we know to be false but for the sake of these calculations we will
accept), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household, a total trip
of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops.

Given population clustering the mean interhouse distance is far far less.

And one minor one:

A medium LEGO set does not weigh 2 pounds. That's a pretty big one,
actually... 600 pieces or so.

++Lar



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  Re: Santa (Physics, you gotta love it! : ) )
 
Leave it to Larry to spoil all my fun! ; ) (...) Yes Larry, but I thought it was amusing, not for super analysis, not for debating either, hence the fun part? Scott S. -- (24 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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  Santa (Physics, you gotta love it! : ) )
 
To All, I thought this was amusing, even though it has LEGO mentioned in it, I don't know if it needs to be here or in .geek or something. Subject: NASA's Notes Concerning Santa IS THERE A SANTA? In the late 1800s a little girl named Virginia asked (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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