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After much research, we present the annual aeronautical engineers report on the theory of Santa:
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.
There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT, since Santa doesn’t (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish & Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total or 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. We have to presume here that there is at least ONE GOOD child in each home.
Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to actually work with. This is due to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels in an east to west direction, which only seems logical. This works out to 822.6 visits per second. That is to say that for each Christian household with “good” children, Santa has approximately .001 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 calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75.5 million miles; not counting stops to do what most of do at least once every 31 hours, plus eating etc. So Santa’s sleigh must be moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a pokey 27.4 miles per second. A conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.
If everyone of the 91.8 million homes “with good children” were to put out a single chocolate chip cookie and an 8 ounce glass of 2% milk, the total calories (needless to say other vitamins and minerals) would be approximately 225 calories (100 for the cookie, give or take, and 125 for the milk, give or take). Multiplying the number of calories per house by the number of homes (225 X 91.8 X 1,000,000), we get the total number of calories Santa consumes that night, which is 20,655,000,000 calories. To break it down further, 1 pound is equal to 3,500 calories. Dividing our total number of calories by the number of calories in a pound (20,655,000,000 / 3,500) and we get the number of pounds Santa gains, 5,901,428.6, which is 2950.7 tons.
The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized Lego set (2 lb.), the sleigh is carrying 321,000 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more that 300 lbs. Even granting that ”flying reindeer” (see paragraph # 1) can pull 10 TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do the job with 8, or even 9 reindeer. You would need 214,200 “flying reindeer”. This increases the payload – not counting the weight of the sleigh – to 353,430 tons. This is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth ocean-liner.
353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance. This will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as a spacecraft 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 .00426th of a second. Meanwhile, Santa, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater that gravity. A 250 lb. Santa, being very conservative in terms of guessing Santa’s weight, would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 lbs. of force. If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he’s dead now. Have a Merry Christmas one and all! ! ! ! !
353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance. This will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as a spacecraft 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.That part always cracks me up!
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where can i down load the demo for this mod!!!!!!!?????!!!!!!
" I must know!
Well, we've got another person asking for a beta. Tut tut. Typically, modders don't give out betas to everyone. It's not a thing we do. Most of us (cept the beta testers) wait for it to come out.
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I believe this mod is a joint effort between GRT1 Kpl Eli and Sixpence. It's already been announced once or twice.
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How much interest would there be in me compiling these and making several more and creating a weapons mod? I've added an M203 and a flashlilght to the m16 and it looks awesome.
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Looks pretty close to me DVS1. Although it kind of looks like it's one or two extruded faces. Do you have the battery case modeled on?
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I might be able to do an ok job. If you really want something spectacular, ask someone like cobra6 or someone else. I'm not very good at piecing them together.
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Here's a couple of good shots of the reciever
http://www.alpharubicon.com/leo/870brian.htm
These are ok shots.
http://www.remington.com/firearms/shotguns/870.htm
Then try these
http://www.special-warfare.net/data_base/index.html
If all else fails, you could find good pics of other shotguns and then piece a custom texture together. I do it all the time.
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*gasp* It hit the 2nd page! It's too good to be there!
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I'd be glad to help out blakarion.
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Made an M4 simliar to the -16. Stopped at 1750 polys.
and once more, here's a cool one.
How's that? Any comments and\or suggestions would be appreciated.
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It's too easy man. You've just got to think of simple ways to do things. I tried the N-gon and edit mesh, and it was a mess. I just though of that way early this morning and went for it. Just use ockam's razor, the simplest was is best.
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The credit for all the textures (cept the trijicon) goes to Para. He's given me permission to use them, allowing me to do stuff like this. I can't make textures for ****, so he's basically kept me going for colt weapons. I darkened up the trijicon, cause it looked too bright. Looks much better now.
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Not very excitable people I guess. Well, here's the textured version.
and here's one just for giggles
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I'm quite surprised with these results. As you can see, it's still untextured, but it will be textured soon. But first, let me just say that I can't believe this
I've chamfered almost every edge, and booleaned more then ever. There's cylinders in there with at least six segments. But amazingly, it's only 1157 polys! I present my M16A4
Any suggestions for sighting systems\attachments would be great. Thanks.
Just finished Thanksgiving dinner and set to this. I'm eating more turkey before I model.
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Yeah, I was gonna say. 3dsmax uses polys, not triangles. Is it lightwave, or maybe Maya? Or perhaps some other 3d modeler that no one's ever heard of?
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Haven't seen that because I can't get there. Apparently my computer doesn't like your server. I think Chems missed that.
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Uhh, that's kind of cold Nightmare. If Chems fixed it up and textured (probably the most important part) it, then you should at least say so. Your response doesnt really warrant credit where credit is due.
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I bet those holes will raise the polycount skyhigh.
Why not simply make a 9 sided cilinder and put an Alpha-texture on it to reproduce the holes?
It will make your model much lower on the polys.
Poor guy doesn't have photoshop
Photoshop is worth it's weight (and more) in gold for skin and texture modding. I just spent the entire day putting camo textures on various weapons I've gotten from mods. The M98 that came with DS has a wicked desert camo now. Nightmare, get photoshop if you can. Try ebay for cheaper copies.
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If you need it, go ask elsewhere. If this discussion even hints at how to get it illegally, it'll get locked. However, you can get a 30 day trial at Discreet's website. Try it out, and if you like it, buy it.
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Can I just reccomend you don't? It's great that you're getting into modding, but this is a reaallly bad idea. I'm not sure how well you keep up with the modding community news, but basically it's come down to this: Most of us would be happier if no one makes a BHD mod. The community has spoken with people that were there, and most of them asked us not to. Someone already made one, and it really infuriated quite a few very important people. Please don't make a mistake and make it.
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Cool. I forgot about that Argyll. That takes care of the M4s.
DVS1, I'd like to see the M249 Para and the handguns.
And Prozac, that'd be awesome.
Oh, and anyone else that wants to assist, I've got a wicked cool desert texture for the M1A from Whisper 44
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No takers? Anyone? Please?
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Are meat pies anything like chicken pot pies? Or perhaps hot pockets?
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I'm primarily a box and mesh modeler myself, but that's pretty much because I haven't had it long enough to try many of them. I think it's been about three months.