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Christmas miracles

SPEEDY SANTA

Christmas is a time of wonder, when Christian children are told to believe Santa Claus rides on his reindeer-drawn sleigh from the North Pole on Christmas Eve to distribute gifts to homes throughout the world. The logistics of such an operation, plus his preferred method of delivering the presents down your home’s chimney, are pretty implausible.

In 2018, three University of Leicester students calculated that to visit 238 million Christian households, Santa would have a window of 24 hours if he travelled from east to west at 0.5% of the speed of light. Considering that speed is 3,353,083.15

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