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Has to have been done before but just in case.
A trailing banner pulled behind an airplane at night that
has an illuminated animation of Santa and his raindeer
flying through the night. Parents would be alerted to
bring
their kids out at a certain time and look in the direction
of
the
fly by show.
Of course another option is to just make a drone version
of
the whole thing, but I'm sure that's been done. The
banner
thing might be a lot easier.
The illuminated animation might be achieved by an LED
filled banner or simply a sheet onto which a video is
projected.
However it's achieved I'm surprised nobody's done
something like this yet.
Bun or bone, merry Christmas and a happy new year to
all!
Santa's sleigh hot air balloon
Santa_27s_20sleigh_20hot_20air_20balloon
Prior Art [8th of 7, Dec 24 2019]
Beckett Bridge Dublin
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R01eWZ6e5Hc
[xenzag, Dec 24 2019]
Speaking of Santa's sleigh getting shot down...
https://santatracke...gn=2019-tracker-hpp
Limited time link: shows him entering Afghanistan air space right now. [doctorremulac3, Dec 24 2019]
[link]
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You know, [doc], you've turned into a really nice guy in your
old age. There's still time to turn it around, though. |
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Better to show them the real thing, surely? |
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You can get an app that tells you when the ISS is passing
overhead. Kids won't know. |
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So, Santa is a presage of bad weather now ? Snow would be the traditional thing, shirley ? |
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The young folk may wonder why Santa leaves without stopping. |
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What [pocmloc] said. I love the idea though, as a back-up
plan. |
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This is great until your plane meets the real Santa in a mid-air
collision. Toys and reindeer parts scattered over a wide area. |
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As far as is known, Santa flies strictly VFR and at night, more
or less regardless of weather. His sleigh also has a very low
radar cross-section (there are rumours that it's stealthed), and
carries no active transponder. Under those circumstances, no
court would blame you for the collision, but that would be
little consolation. |
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//You know, [doc], you've turned into a really nice guy in
your old age.// |
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//This is great until your plane meets the real Santa in a
mid-air collision.// |
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I actually erased the part where I thought the drone
version might be less susceptible to AA attack, be it some
kind of high tech heat seeking affair or just a hillbilly
with a 30-06. |
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But believe me, the dark cynical part of my soul born of
many years of experience is alive and well. I just keep it
locked in the attic and throw it a bucket of fish heads
now and then. |
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That last lot weren't even slightly rancid, we had to wait days before they became edible... |
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You all have about 5 minutes to watch the real time tracker
of Santa flying over Afghanistan in the link I posted. |
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Good little boys and girls will hope me makes it. I'll take
whatever happens. |
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OK, he made it. Now let's see if he's going to push his luck
by flying over Tehran. |
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Nope. Did a wise 180 and headed for Borat country. |
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A collision between Santa and an AWACS would be a delicious irony. Would it be logged as "blue on blue" or "blue on red-and-whte" ... ? |
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It's guys like us who wrote nursery rhymes like Ring
Around
The Rosie. It's important to see the dark side of any
situation. |
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A buddy of mine who got his physics degree from Stanford
(on a full scholarship I might add) wrote a piece called
"No
Virginia, There Is No Santa Claus" where he broke down
the
physics of what would happen to 8 r. tarandus pulling a
human at the velocities necessary to deliver presents to
good children all over the world. Something like:
(paraphrasing) "Even at mach 5, the
tissue degeneration of the animals would shower Santa
with flaming chunks of fur, flesh and bones..." etc. You
get the
idea. |
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Sounds like a quote from Firefox ... |
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Surely the only rational was for Santa would be from low
Earth orbit? |
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Assuming an orbital period of 90min (maybe a little less, but
then he'd be lower and grazing the atmosphere), he'd be able
to make about 16 orbits in 24 hours. Half of each orbit would
be in sunlight, so that'd be wasted time, but that gives him
the equivalent of 8 full orbits in which to deliver presents. |
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I think he might have gotten into the cubic miles of presents
as well. |
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Hmm. Assuming that each person receives 3 cubit feet of
presents (which is generous), the total presentage of the
Earth at Christmas is only 1/7th of a cubic mile. |
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What's even more surprising is that the volume of an average
human is only 1.7 cubic feet; so you could fit all the people
into less than 1/10th of a cubic mile. |
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Well, there you go. I'm sure his math was impeccable. |
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Any percentage of a cubic mile makes for a less than
aerodynamic payload, especially if the vehicle is a sleigh.
And assuming a pound per present
that's a 7 billion pound
payload. Cut it in half for the naughty Earthlings and
you're still at over 3 billion pounds. |
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So some cubic mile's worth of presents weighing about 3
billion pounds moving at, what, mach 1,000? That's a
rough ride. Then are we still doing the chimney thing?
There's a 300 pound object (Santa) shooting into and out
of your house so fast that the resulting air compression
would probably do a lot more than rattle the dishes. |
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I wish I still had that. He figured all that crap out. Made
for a good read. |
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Lying to children in a neopagan worship of the great horned
hunter? Telling them there's an old man watching their every
move? Making them sit in the lap of that same old man?
Telling them he will be personally visiting their houses? Elf
slavery, a baby born of nonconsensual goings on, you better
watch out, you better not cry! I don't know if it's NICE, but it
sure is half baked. |
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All true, where as Satan simply attempted to
exercise
some equality and fair treatment with God for his
co-
worker and for that got fired. Literally, thrown
into
fire... forever. I believe he might have a legit H.R.
case. |
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Santa might be more than just an anagram of
Satan. Has
anybody ever seen the two in a picture together? If
I
were Satan and wanted to flood the world with
materialism one day a year, I'd have to wear a
disguise.
How about... a beard for starters? Got those pointy
ears,
gonna need a hat... |
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Hmmm. I might be on to something here. And
come on,
Santa as a cover name for Satan is like Putin
changing
his name to Pitun. Not even any energy put into it. |
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If he followed the same letter transposition rules, it would become "Puint" ... |
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