Timeline for Colony on the moon - how fast can Santa deliver?
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| May 11, 2017 at 18:14 | comment | added | Draco18s no longer trusts SE | @AlexandervonWernherr While it doesn't have Santa, it does feature an astoundingly well modeled rules set for space travel under Real Physics as a board game. But your comments made me insert Santa's sleigh into this model and wonder what stats it would have. | |
| May 11, 2017 at 18:10 | comment | added | Alexander von Wernherr | @Draco18s Sorry, no. | |
| May 9, 2017 at 15:50 | comment | added | Draco18s no longer trusts SE | @AlexandervonWernherr Have you by chance seen the board game High Frontier? | |
| Jan 3, 2017 at 14:51 | comment | added | called2voyage | @MaskedMan That is sort of what I...er, I mean Santa proposed in this question: space.stackexchange.com/q/19522/58 | |
| Dec 27, 2016 at 21:38 | vote | accept | Nahshon paz | ||
| Dec 23, 2016 at 7:44 | comment | added | Masked Man | Couldn't he just outsource his work to local contractors in various countries, instead of personally visiting every house in the world? | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 17:38 | comment | added | called2voyage |
Santa confirmed this in his 1998 interview with NASA: "The Moon won't be too much of a challenge," Santa told us. "I figure the lunar colonies will keep Earth time, so I'll just add them to my route. The reindeer will gripe about having to put on spacesuits, but we'll get used to it."
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| Dec 22, 2016 at 17:29 | comment | added | csiz | A moon night is ~30 days, he can take his time there. | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 17:29 | comment | added | Xandar The Zenon | So, for the record, even though global warming changes are within the natural amount, It's Santa's fault? | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 17:24 | comment | added | Random832 | Note that his Traveling Salesman problem is constrained by the fact that he has to visit each house at night in its local timezone. Even if he doesn't have to precisely hit the midnight hour, he can't for example double back to Europe or Africa (where it is already morning) after finishing up the Americas. | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 16:29 | comment | added | kingledion | @MarshallTigerus I do mention that it causes fusion in the air in front of Santa/reindeer. | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 16:29 | comment | added | Marshall Tigerus | wouldn't that speed cause air resistance to light santa on fire, and/or cause significant damage to the world itself? | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 15:34 | comment | added | rangerike1363 | @kingledion You're welcome ;) | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 15:04 | history | edited | kingledion | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 22, 2016 at 14:59 | comment | added | kingledion | @rangerike1363 Holy unconvertable unit conversion Batman! You are right! | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 14:58 | comment | added | rangerike1363 | So I may be missing something, but 33*11.6 =/= 384,400... | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 14:28 | comment | added | Alexander von Wernherr | And how would he power this sleigh, when it is fully loaded? How many deer would be need to achieve this Δv? So many questions and so little time till Hogsw... Christmas | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 14:25 | comment | added | kingledion | @AlexandervonWernherr Sounds like a great follow-up question: For what planets does Santa Clause have sufficient $\Delta$v to perform a Hohmann transfer? I think 11 km/s is enough juice to escape the solar system if he uses a gravitational assist from Jupiter like Voyager did. | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 14:21 | comment | added | Alexander von Wernherr | A Hohmann Transfering Santa Clause. A great name for a space christmans novel | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 14:18 | comment | added | Nahshon paz | Oh! I totally should have asked about Mars. I guess I'll ask that when I'm a grandfather | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 14:16 | comment | added | kingledion | @JoeBloggs Tis the season for good cheer and bad puns. | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 14:13 | comment | added | Joe Bloggs | Was 'sun-of-a-gun' intended? If so: applause | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 14:11 | history | answered | kingledion | CC BY-SA 3.0 |