Now wouldn't Alexis Rebecca Pax be a great name?


Second behind Delenne Elizabeth Pax. Delenne would be Prenounced "Dell end" but without the last D Delenn wouldn't be a bad spelling. Cooooool.





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I've always liked Belinda....and hey Cypher - good scoring lately (hmm...time on the PC, ay?).

Quiet around here lately - everyone honing their Dungoen Siege characters?

How about Paux de Deux Pax, sounds great.

Alexis or Delenne sound like names of a child with a sister names Ashlyn. I'll run them by Mrs. Pax. I also like Belinda. Paux de Deux is a mouthful, but an interesting suggestion.

Mrs. Pax is home again.

Happy Holidays,

Michael

That was a joke of course, Belinda Darlene would be interesting too.

Sorry no, trying to handle Christmas, also too much work (things due Jan 5th!!! ), also still pedestrainly challenged, also PC is playing up!

T - Minus 2 hours

Ah, can't make it - just hire a pack mule, call him Quack, and tell me how he does

Sorry to hear that Quack, I hope you get your neud computer soon . . . pack mule huh? Mmmm not a bad idea . . . all the best!

He's getting a nude computer? Hey - where do I get one of those? Mmm...Quack the packer...

Hurls - you and that PC of yours...maybe you could use a nude one too?

I don't think I could handle having a nude computer. Imagine all the dust it would get on its, um, private parts.

I don't think I could handle having a nude computer. Imagine all the dust it would get on its, um, private parts

You mean you're not gonna buy a Cherry 2000 when they come out?

LMAO rent that movie with Melanie griffeth. Totally lame but unintentionally hilariously so.

That should read rent that movie starring melanie griffeth. Although maybe you'd like to rent it with her as well.

Hehe . . . me and me atriousious spelin' . . . LOL

Good work all you Special ones logging games - well done Jeff, Harel, Cypher, Ginata and anyone else I've missed. Plenty of leave passes for soldiers at this time of year, so go have fun (and Ginata's gone shopping - again!) and recharge the batteries!

GO SPECIAL FORCES!!!

IS THERE A SANTA CLAUS?

As a result of an overwhelming lack of requests, and with research help from
that renown scientific journal SPY magazine (January, 1990) - I am pleased to present the annual scientific inquiry into 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 to 15% of the total - 378 million according to 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, assuming he travels east to west
(which seemes 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 the sleigh, jump down the chimney, 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 purposes of our calculations we will accept), we
are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 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, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-> made vehicle on earth, theUlysses 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 pounds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal anount, 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 - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison - this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.

5) 353,000 tons travelling at 650 miles per second creates enourmous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecrafts re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each. In short,
they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire
reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths 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 now.


have a nice day

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Not mine but an interesting read, don't you think . . . I hate science! . . . My own personal conclusion is that 'Santa' is a real Mcoy Superhero from another planet kinda deal . . . mmm makes sense I suppose . . . Merry Christmas everyone!

Elenore Ginata Scouge here signing off for the year . . .

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they forgot to take in account that he uses six white boomers in one continent..
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Hey, no wonder nobody ever saw him

~SDC~

Wow, and I thought superheroes were always those young guys and girls with well-toned abs and tight costumes... I'm glad that place is an equal opportunity employer and they give guys like old mate Tubby a fair go.

You forgot that he also uses a warp drive connected to his sleigh and quantom physics, plus stargates and other small artifacts that we don't have yet being able to handle. LOL

Merry Christmas everyone!!!

The Holiday Issue of the Metaverse Review is now out!

http://metaversereview.joeuser.com

Headlines Include:

~ Altarian Prophecy beta released
~ The Centurions appear!
~ Euros, then Fellowship surpass 1000 games

And Much, Much More!

Interesting what science thinks about Santa Claus.

Early on one Christmas Day a joey kangaroo,
Was far from home and lost in a great big zoo.
'Mummy, where's my mummy? They've taken her away.'
We'll help you find your mummy, son. Hop up on the sleigh.'
Up beside the bag of toys little joey hopped,
But they hadn't gone far when Santa stopped.
Unharnessed all the reindeer and Joey wondered why,
Then he heard a far off booming in the sky.

Six white boomers, snow white boomers,
Racing Santa Claus through the blazing sun.
Six white boomers, snow white boomers,
On his Australian run.

Pretty soon old Santa began to feel the heat,
Took his fur lined boots off to cool his feet,
Into one popped Joey, feeling quite okay,
While those old man Kangaroos kept pulling on the sleigh.

Six white boomers, snow white boomers,
Racing Santa Claus through the blazing sun.
Six white boomers, snow white boomers,
On his Australian run.

Joey said to Santa, 'Santa, what about the toys?
Aren't you iving some to these girls and boys?'
'They've got all their presents, son, we were here last night,
this trip is an extra trip, Joey's special flight.'

Six white boomers, snow white boomers,
Racing Santa Claus through the blazing sun.
Six white boomers, snow white boomers,
On his Australian run.

Soon the sleigh was flashing past right over Marble Bar,
'Slow down there,' cried Santa, 'it can't be far,
Come up on my lap here, son, and have a look around.'
'There she is, that's mummy, bounding up and down.'

Six white boomers, snow white boomers,
Racing Santa Claus through the blazing sun.
Six white boomers, snow white boomers,
On his Australian run.

Well that's the bestest Christmas treat that Joey ever had,
Curled up in mother's pouch feeling snug and glad.
The last they saw was Santa heading northwards from the sun,
The only year the boomers worked a double run.

Six white boomers, snow white boomers,
Racing Santa Claus through the blazing sun.
Six white boomers, snow white boomers,
On his Australian run.


Merry Christmas!!!

and youse all too!!