Merry Christmas to all those who celebrate, and an equally joyous day to those who don’t! Do you know how fast Santa Claus would need to travel to drop presents off for every child in the world? Well…
…according to Arnold Pompos of Purdue University, Santa would have to travel a total of 160,000,000km(farther than the Earth to the Sun!) to visit the approximately 200 million children in the world. Father Christmas would need to travel at a speed of 4,705,882km/h. While this is far slower than the speed of light, it would still be more than fast enough to vaporize Kris Kringle via air resistance. Luckily, St. Nick has a magical sleigh and a team of highly-skilled reindeer to help him out!