X-Message-Number: 8954
Subject: Re: SANTA CLAUS: An Engineer's Perspective
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 13:36:18 -0600
From: Will Dye <>

Thanks, Doug Skrecky, for the holiday humor.  You might be interested 
in this addendum, posted on another mailing list.  You know engineers, 
the only thing we love more than changing things is critiquing someone 
else's changes.  :-)  

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> Anthony J. Langlois writes:
> 
> > 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, 

George L. Murphy <> replies:

>         4,315,015 pounds?  A seven significant figure answer with three 
> (or to push it, only one) significant figure data?  The grinch should 
> steal some engineer's calculator!

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