Throwback Tech: Santa’s Sleigh

I have given a lot of thought to this post, mainly about exactly how does Santa’s Sleigh actually work. I mean really the thing has to be either A: highly technologically advanced, or B: supernaturally powered. Either of which may actually disqualify it as actually belonging to the throwback tech files. However the idea of Santa and his sleigh are actually fairly old, so I figure what the heck.

Now if we assume that choice A is the correct answer (and why not, after all Santa creates all those toys each year so why not a super futuristic sleigh?) then there are some amazing physical accomplishments we have to consider. The total area of landmass that covers the planet is some 148.94 million square Kilometers and on that landmass live over 6.6 billion people. Now somehow not only does Santa deliver presents to everyone on the planet he also does it at the exact stroke of midnight! Delving into this further another question comes to mind that if assuming the population were to be evenly spread out across the worlds time zones (which it isn’t) then he would actually have to deliver presents to 27.5 million people in the space of sixty seconds! This is a feat that I am not sure that is possible. So I seriously doubt that Santa can use any means of technology to accomplish this task.

So that leads us to the second answer of Santa having some supernatural means of delivering presents. The first concept I thought of was that maybe he can stop time. However even if Santa could stop time, the amount of time it would take to actually deliver the presents would be so massive that its almost not worth calculating. So a much better present delivery method has to be being employed. Perhaps its teleportation? I mean this could actually work. People simply wrap a box that is the approximate size of the gift they wish to receive and on Christmas eve Santa pushes his magic button and bang! everyone wakes up to their Christmas presents. Now this magic must not be perfect because I remember many a year where I got a present meant for my brother and vice versa.

Whatever the case Santas sleigh is awesome and if Santa is listening I would really like a ride. And here is a fun little video for you all to enjoy.