Santa is a pretty speedy fellow, all right, on Christmas eve, and all night through.

Let's make this easy. Let's say that the earth has 6 billion people, and that 1/2 are children. That makes 3 billion kids Santa needs to visit.

Now kids stay up late on Christmas eve, so Santa dares not show up before 10 pm. And we cannot have him lingering any later than 5 am in the morning, because those kids are early risers too.

So that makes 7 hours for Santa to deposit presents.

Now 7 hours = 420 minutes = 25,200 seconds, so Santa has those many seconds to deposit presents for 3 billion kids. That comes out to 21/2,500,000 millionths of a second per child. Santa is one speedy person.

In the time that Santa deposits a batch of presents, light travels 8,261.5 ft. Since anything cannot travel faster than light, Santa must not be moving faster than 8261 feet per child. Of course in cities, he can visit lots of kids that are close together.

But I hope Santa can make it if he has to visit the rural areas, the jungles, the remote places and deserts.

I can see why Rudolph's nose is so red. Your nose would glow too, moving at that speed.

I wish Santa the best, and remind him "Speed Limit is Light, It's the Law", and hope that He gets all the presents done.

Wow 21/2500000 is sure a short bit of time to say hello to Him. You gotta time it just right!

Randall