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Airline Mogul => Game News => Topic started by: Air Elbonia on December 17, 2007, 11:25:32 am
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[Sorry for being late for Hannakuh, but Happy Hannakuh to all who celebrate it]
Happy Kwanzaa, and merry Christmas [and season's greetings... and any other holiday i missed] from all of the staff here at AirlineMogul.
Hey look! there's been a sighting of Santa's Sleigh in-game...
(http://www.airlinemogul.com/airlinemogul/images/surveys/santa_am.jpg)
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Really. You're in no position to call gizgiz insane. :wink:
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Santa like all pilots gets regular visits from the CAA, and the CAA examiner arrived last week for the pre Christmas flight check. In preparation Santa had the elves wash the sled and bathe all the reindeer. Santa got his logbook out and made sure all his paperwork was in order. He knew they would examine all his equipment and truly put his flying skills to the test.
The examiner walked slowly around the sled. He checked the reindeer harnesses, the landing gear, and even Rudolph's nose. He painstakingly reviewed Santa's weight and balance calculations for the sled's enormous payload.
Finally, they were ready for the flight test. Santa got in and fastened his seat belt and shoulder harness and aligned the compass. Then the examiner hopped in carrying, to Santa's surprise, a shotgun. "What's that for?!?" asked Santa incredulously. The examiner winked and said, "I'm not supposed to tell you this ahead of time," as he leaned over to whisper in Santa's ear, "but you're gonna lose an engine on take-off.!
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Season Greetings from Daniel!
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Brilliant Daniel! :lol:
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Happy Ho*lidays? It's
Merry Christmas!!![/size]
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I wan't the sleigh in the game. Could be funny to have :P
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Really. You're in no position to call gizgiz insane. :wink:
Lol
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I wan't the sleigh in the game. Could be funny to have :P
I have offered up to 7.2B, he has a bad excuse of saying "It is not in the game" :lol:
Ill make it 10.1B if you wish to sell it
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Happy Ho*lidays? It's
Merry Christmas!!![/size]
I know, thats Americans for ya! :(
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AEB, you should make more of those and put them on the open market. see what kind of reactions you get (of course, the sleigh won't do anything, but it would be fun to own :D )
Taking the smiley i had from another post...
Merry Christmas!(http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/greet008.gif)
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Chuck a random script flying it to a different route every day, and have it slowly reduce it's load factor. Bigger the city it flies to, the more the load decreases.
*comment by dktc: (http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h47/dktchan/offtopic.gif)*
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Santa carries no passengers... he's a cargo plane. c'mon.
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(http://vacc.fi/df/files/santa_1_202.jpg)
(http://vacc.fi/df/files/santa_2_104.jpg)
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How come he gets to ride business/first class?
Oh, for those into physics and physicy things:
The Physics of Santa Claus
1. No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.
2. There are 2 billion children (persons under 18 ) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 million according to the Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.
3. Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, and assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of his sleigh, jump down the chimnye, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course we know to be false but for the purpose of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking aabout .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc.This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.
4. The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 punds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (refer to point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal load, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison - this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.
5. 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecrafts re-entereing the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy per SECOND, EACH! In short, hey will burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create a deafening sonic boom in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousanths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal* forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.
In conclusion - If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead by now.
* Please note that centrifugal is a made-up non existent word. The real word should be centripetal. Centrifugal is a made up force that physics people HATE! So please, everyone use the world centripetal, not centrifugal. Thanks!
[Courtesy of http://www.main.com/~anns/other/humor/physicsofsanta.html ]
[Post tinied by Daniel Doorgakant - Stop ruining the Christmas Spirit! :wink: ]
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No need to ruin the spirit :evil:
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any way we can buy it?
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What's the range on Santa's Sleigh? :lol:
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buy what? :?
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buy what? :?
SANTA'S SLEIGH!
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santa's sleigh! what else could possibly be the best and most efficient cargo plane in the game? :lol:
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27.44%?! No wonder my gifts are dramatically reducing every year...
Mery Cristmas for you all!
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I played Santa yesterday... was fun :D
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MERRY CHRISTMAS!(http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/greet008.gif)
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MERRY CHRISTMAS!(http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/greet008.gif)
Yes, Merry Christmas!
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How much can I get for it? Coz I received one from AM
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How much can I get for it? Coz I received one from AM
Everyone got one... due to the price restrictions, likely you can get 0 for it. i'm unsure. i haven't tried selling it yet.
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How much can I get for it? Coz I received one from AM
Everyone got one... due to the price restrictions, likely you can get 0 for it. i'm unsure. i haven't tried selling it yet.
The question is, why did we get it :lol:
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i have a prediction on this, everyone will scrap it (seeing as it does nothing) then it will be the DC-3 except worse...
and all the brokers will hate whoever came up with the idea...
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Oh no, I'd just ask the guy who came up with the idea to delete my sleigh's :)
So, @AEB, please delete my 17 Santa's Sleighs :twisted:
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ah...
that would make sense
or you can make something to auto-delete santa's sleigh, but then again that could go horribly wrong...
(i tried to find a foxtrot comic, but i couldn't, it is a christmas card by jason, and the caption is "I said Sleigh Ride not Slay ride!") so ya...
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this sleight does not appear to be mine???
I can't lease it out :evil: