I must have been sleepy this morning, 'cause I forgot to add
this interesting info about Santa and his entourage. I found
them over at the North Carolina State University. How about
these hard facts? NC State’s Dr. Larry Silverberg, professor of
mechanical and aerospace engineering, can explain the science
and engineering principles that allow Santa to pull off the
magical feat year after year. Silverberg was team leader on a
first-of-its-kind visiting scholars program at Santa’s Workshop-
North Pole Labs (NPL) last year. Silverberg says that Santa has
a personal pipeline to children’s thoughts – via a listening
antenna that combines technologies currently used in cell phones
and EKGs – which informs him that Mary in Miami hopes for a
surfboard, while Michael from Minneapolis wants a snowboard.
Silverberg is not so naïve as to think that Santa and his
reindeer can travel approximately 200 million square miles –
making stops in some 80 million homes – in one night. Instead,
he posits that Santa uses his knowled