Removed  Copied here if anyone wants to improve the section     Scientists have pointed to the scope of Santas task as evidence of the preposterousness of the Santa legend Taking advantage of the Earths rotation and the resulting time zones Santa would have  hours to complete visits along a nearly  long route which equates a speed of  or approximately  times the speed of sound nearly  times the speed of the Voyager  spacecraft the fastest man made object Assuming each child receives a single gift weighing an average of two pounds each the payload would be  tons Reindeer are capable pulling an average of  each making Santas team of nine reindeer over  million reindeer short  exajoules of energy would be required to move this payload the equivalent of  million atomic bombs the size of the one which exploded over Hiroshima