The Sleigh on a Treadmill question
 

http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=12670

not just a clone thread.

th original riddle:
translated into reindeer and sleigh dynamics, the question takes on other aspects:


A sleigh and 8 tiny reindeer are standing on a runway that can move, like a giant treadmill. When the tiny old elf sprinkles the magic dust, it begins to move forward, but the treadmill is made to match the forward speed of the sleigh, only in the opposite direction. So, as the sleigh moves forward, it moves backwards beneath the reindeer's feet.
As they dash away, dash away, dash away all, does the sleigh ,as dry leaves that before the hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky?

It absolutely can.

I mean it can't.

Aw, Hell. I don't know.

WTF is this magic dust?

Reindeer fly. Period. There's no magic dust.

It must mount to the sky, I heard it. In fact, I heard such a crash...I opened the window and threw up the hash!

You mean that's reindeer dandruff I've been snorting? :eek:

Yeah?
I hope it really was Santa, and not the local narcotics squad.

My grandpa used to read us The Night Before Christmas every Christmas eve. It was his running joke to say he threw up the hash, but I think he was talking the corned beef variety. :)

Ewww. :vomit:

If I saw reindeer fly, I'd be throwing out the hash.

If the sleigh is pulled by sharks on a treadmill, and they are spooked by a whale penis, the sleigh will fly.

The reindeer, having eaten the magic corn, take on the corn's anti-gravity characteristics. The treadmill is irrelevant.

but what if they're landsharks?

I think this is just lumberjim's way of hinting that he wants a home treadmill for Christmas; but, to dispel the myth that reindeer can land on rooftops without damaging the structures, reindeer actually enter into low level synchronous earth orbit scant few millimeters above the roofs while Santa does his thing. When reindeer deviate from synchronous orbit or effect a change in altitude, they are "flying" irregardless of whatever is moving beneath them.

god you guys are nerds.


*hugs* :)

Could never happen. They are all dolphins.