• halvar@lemy.lol
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    10 hours ago

    On one of our Christmas themed university events this year there was a physics teacher who calculated how many reindeers would Santa need if we assume the friction vaporizes each one at a certain rate. Like if Santa had a line of 42000 reindeers in front of his sleigh he could go around the earth once before the last one turned medium rare.

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      41 minutes ago

      Ablative reindeer.

      This is one of those things that would require experimental verification, you can’t calculate the rate the charred outer layers are lost. Has there been any research on hypersonic meat?

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        30 minutes ago

        I think reindeer would ablate in a similar way to pineapples given their similar water/carbon content. I think he’d get around just fine with toasted Rudolf.