Timeline for Santa's new delivery service: a... cannon?
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| Nov 26, 2021 at 11:53 | comment | added | sdfgeoff | A gau-8 gattling gun can squeeze out ~60 rounds per second, so if you had, oh, 20 or so you'd be able to deliver approximately enough objects down-range. That'd be quire a sight (and noise) to observe.... | |
| Nov 25, 2021 at 9:09 | history | edited | Ton Day | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
you can actually calculate a minimum muzzle velocity
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| Jan 3, 2020 at 6:54 | history | edited | Ton Day | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
What's a few orders of magnitude between Christmas elves?
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| Dec 26, 2019 at 21:21 | comment | added | Ton Day | True, the new-fangled cannon does involve a hefty dose of Christmas Magic, just like the old-fashioned approach. But I wouldn't really think the cannon would be a massive improvement. It's just as much of a hassle, just a different kind of hassle. For one thing, he'll still need the sleigh to deal with mistakes anyway. Yes, of course he makes mistakes, why else would he be making a list an' checking it twice? Plus it loses the whole personal touch, which I imagine Santa considers a perk of the job anyway. | |
| Dec 26, 2019 at 17:45 | comment | added | Alexander | I highly doubt that 2 billion Christians map to just 100M families with children. | |
| Dec 26, 2019 at 13:12 | comment | added | Cadence | Santa should look into MIRVs. If the presents can self-guide the last part of their descent, he could service whole clusters of houses at once. | |
| Dec 26, 2019 at 9:17 | comment | added | Demigan | Compared to flying to the roof, grabbing your sack of presents, climbing into the chimney, placing the presents, working on your diabetes by eating all the milk and cookies, climbing back out and then moving to the next house 1160 times a second this canon is a massive improvement on Santa's MO. | |
| Dec 26, 2019 at 7:35 | history | edited | Ton Day | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
serpentine fashion apparently does not mean what I thought it did
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| Dec 26, 2019 at 7:28 | history | answered | Ton Day | CC BY-SA 4.0 |