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  1. "There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist (except maybe in Japan) religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the Population Reference Bureau).

    At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming that there is at least one good child in each. Santa has about 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 967.7 visits per second.

    This is to say that for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and get on to the next house.

    Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false, but will accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops or breaks.

    This means 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, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a Poky 27.4 miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles per hour. The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized Lego set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousand tons, not counting Santa himself.

    On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that the "flying" reindeer could pull ten times the normal amount, the job can't be done with eight or even nine of them, Santa would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch). 600,000 tons

    Traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance-this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team would be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reached the fifth house on his trip.

    Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 m.p.s. in .001 seconds, would be subjected to acceleration forces of 17,500 g's. A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs.

    Therefore, if Santa did exist, he,s dead now.

    Merry Christmas."

    Quoted from Steampowered forums.

    Sorry for the double posts.

  2. "There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist (except maybe in Japan) religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the Population Reference Bureau).

    At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming that there is at least one good child in each. Santa has about 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 967.7 visits per second.

    This is to say that for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and get on to the next house.

    Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false, but will accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops or breaks.

    This means 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, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a Poky 27.4 miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles per hour. The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized Lego set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousand tons, not counting Santa himself.

    On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that the "flying" reindeer could pull ten times the normal amount, the job can't be done with eight or even nine of them, Santa would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch). 600,000 tons

    Traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance-this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team would be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reached the fifth house on his trip.

    Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 m.p.s. in .001 seconds, would be subjected to acceleration forces of 17,500 g's. A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs.

    Therefore, if Santa did exist, he,s dead now.

    Merry Christmas."

  3. anythings possible.

    some IDE cables don't have the guides that others have built in. That will allow you to plug them in the wrong way, check both the end that plugs into the motherboard and the end that plugs into the hard drive to see if it can be reversed. I'm thinking it's possible in your instance...

    the hard drive may be the factor , you can boot without it , try doing do with it the POWER OFF while you d/c it... but, we know the ABIT booted without the HD, but with the HD connected it failed.

    The PS2 ports we will do later is what I meant - no sense messing with them with these other issues right now, get cracking - i have a pillow calling my name, but I will stay up a while for you..

    No big deal lol, I going to hit the sack to, I will work on it tommarow thanks for the help tonight though.

  4. The ABIT thing is interesting, you no longer get a display, that could be a Winky hard drive OR it could also be that IDE cable is in the reverse postion in the hard drive. "The red wire will always go to pin 1"...

    what I would suggest is to try flipping the IDE cable over to where it connects to the hard drive, and then see what happens when it boots...

    and NO, you shouldn't do this while the computer is running (see the thread about the the Tazering) *nodnod* Bad baby, bad....

    the motherboard may not have booted becuse of the cable...

    take out the motherboard and put it back in.... then re-install the ram again - you have a 50-50 chance of getting it right... LOL

    the PS2 ports can be corrected after the boot issue.. not ignoring them

    Ok I will work on the hard drive issue tommarow, I thought the IDE cable could only go in 1 way though? I guess not? And the PS2 Ports can be fixed in Windows? hmm BTW, I just got this new hard drive only about 2 months ago...a Western Digital 150GB Drive....couldent be bad, now could it? lol...Thanks

  5. Thanks for the replys, I have swaped out motherboards with a ABIT NF7-S from a MSI MS-7021 the ABIT motherboard I atleast got booted into the BIOS, however it will not get a display with the hard drive having power to it (I have tryed other power connectors, IDE cables, moved IDE cables around) No luck, but when the hard drive is NOT connected it starts right up and gets to the screen saying theirs no drive connected so it cant boot the OS. Then I decided to put the MSI MS-7021 motherboard back in (completly re-wired the whole computer) and now the 3 long beeps DO NOT happen anymore, its back to the regular 1 beep, (I think I installed the memory wrong when I took it out and put it back in)

    And waterRTBH, Do the people do it while the computer is running? (I did), It's not a BIOS splash screen its the Motherboard splash screen with the MSI Core cell stuff on it

  6. I've relized you know right in the very beging on custom computers mostly (what I have) it displays the graphic card type and the driver version of it and stuff, right after that (when it goes black and into the MSI splash screen) it makes 1 beep, like the usual beep it makes when loading...is this the memory error thing? or is it just saying its ok?....thanks

  7. I tryed using a usb keyboard a few minuets ago, and it dosen't work...nither does another PS/2 Keyboard....so my BIOS dosen't support USB keyboards? and my PS/2 Port along with the keyboard is dead...so that leads me to needing to buy a new motherboard? Thanks

  8. My keyboard as for any PS/2 or USB keyboard dosen't respond, and today I tryed the same keyboard I pluged into the wrong port in another computer and forsure its dead, still no luck with other keyboards on the machine thats broke. I don't know whats wrong......I can't get into the BIOS thats the whole problemb, nothing responds.

  9. You gotta check to make sure the ram is in place, that mouse thing has nothing to do with it.

    Also, when you reset the cmos, make sure you unplug the outside "AND THE INSIDE" cables as well to make sure no power goes to the board, and wait on 2-3 JBATs for up to 3-6 seconds than return it.

    My ram could be out of place? Even though I haven't touched it? and If I pluged a PS/2 Purple keyboard into a PS/2 Green mouse port while it is runing, it shoulden't of done what it is doing?

  10. My motherboard is a MSI MS-7021 ATX Mainboard heres the story:

    Ok, so i've accidently pluged a PS/2 Purple keyboard into a green PS/2 Slot while the computer was runing, the computer restarted, I quickly removed it from the slot I accidently placed it in, and it was siting on the memory scan screen saying "Flashing BIOS" and it was hanging their for over 45mins, than I reset the CMOS by moving the JBAT1 jumper down 1 spot. Now it has a splash screen instead of all the information, and then I got some help about POST info, the symtom of my computer is a 1 short beep and they say that it means a DRAMS error, and for the AWARD bios it says Any other beep  is a RAM faliure. One of my questions are, is DRAMS the same as regular RAM? and my other question is, could their be more problembs (hardware being fried) becuase its only the first stage of detection on BIOS?

    Thanks

  11. --------[ Summary ]-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

        Computer:

          Operating System                                  Microsoft Windows XP Professional

          OS Service Pack                                  Service Pack 2

          DirectX                                          4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)

          Computer Name                                    GARETT

          User Name                                        Garett Miller

        Motherboard:

          CPU Type                                          AMD Athlon XP, 1833 MHz (11 x 167) 2500+

          Motherboard Name                                  MSI KT6V-LSR (MS-7021)  (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 2 DDR DIMM, Audio, LAN)

          Motherboard Chipset                              VIA VT8377 Apollo KT600

          System Memory                                    1024 MB  (PC2700 DDR SDRAM)

          BIOS Type                                        AMI (10/20/04)

          Communication Port                                Communications Port (COM1)

          Communication Port                                ECP Printer Port (LPT1)

        Display:

          Video Adapter                                    NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700VE  (256 MB)

          3D Accelerator                                    nVIDIA GeForce FX 5700VE

          Monitor                                          Dell M993s  [19" CRT]  (X375846GBH5M)

        Multimedia:

          Audio Adapter                                    Creative SB Live! Sound Card

        Storage:

          IDE Controller                                    VIA Bus Master IDE Controller

          SCSI/RAID Controller                              D347PRT SCSI Controller

          Disk Drive                                        WDC WD1600JB-22GVC0  (149 GB, IDE)

          Optical Drive                                    Generic DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device

          Optical Drive                                    HP DVD Writer 100j  (DVD+RW:2.4x/8x, CD:12x/10x/32x DVD+RW)

          SMART Hard Disks Status                          OK

        Partitions:

          C: (NTFS)                                        39997 MB (32057 MB free)

          D: (NTFS)                                        60000 MB (41384 MB free)

          E: (NTFS)                                        52626 MB (33019 MB free)

          Total Size                                        149.0 GB (104.0 GB free)

        Input:

          Keyboard                                          Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard

          Mouse                                            Microsoft USB IntelliMouse Optical

        Network:

          Network Adapter                                  VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter  (192.168.1.2)

        Peripherals:

          Printer                                          MILLERS-MACHINEhp psc 2200 series

          USB1 Controller                                  VIA VT83C572 PCI-USB Controller

          USB1 Controller                                  VIA VT83C572 PCI-USB Controller

          USB1 Controller                                  VIA VT83C572 PCI-USB Controller

          USB1 Controller                                  VIA VT83C572 PCI-USB Controller

          USB2 Controller                                  VIA USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller

          USB Device                                        Logitech QuickCam Express

          USB Device                                        Microsoft USB IntelliMouse Optical

          USB Device                                        NETGEAR MA111 802.11b Wireless USB Adapter

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