@tryst @Bastett these days it's more usually IT runs various scheduled tests while so much equipment communicates over Ethernet and gets weird if the network is slow. Ongoing battle between experiment groups wanting a dedicated network and IT understandably not liking when physicists administrator their own network.
But the old joke was that the fat electrons would fill up the bottom of transformers, and the power company has to flush them out every so often so transformers wouldn't clog. So they switch taps at certain times unleashing a bunch of fat electrons at the same time.
Anyone who does observe him, gets crushed by the weight of all the presents intended for everyone else.
That's why we don't have any reports from these witnesses: They were all killed in the experience.
@Bastett @jonahstein I think it’s a probabilistic distribution related to distance from a household that self-identifies as Christian-influenced.
There’s also another probabilistic curve that relates the value of the gifts to household income.
@Bastett It happened one time in Russia in 1907.
At first things looked normal, except that only one house in the Tunguska region got presents, then 6 months later all the rest of the quantum-displaced presents tunneled through to that little house all at once.
So, whatever you do, do not observe Santa.
@androcat @Bastett There both was and wasn’t a sighting of Santa in 1974 in Darwin, Australia too. A girl named Tracy both spotted and didn’t spot him. There was more danger this time, because there were nearly 50,000 people living in the impact zone.
Santa, acting in desperation but having learned from the 1907 incident, was able to reduce the impact massively by making up a story on the spot and having her believe that all she saw was the wind blowing; Tracy has spent the rest of her life thus far in a superposition of having seen him and not having seen him. Sadly, the results were still catastrophic, with 66 lives lost, many injuries, and about 80% of the houses etc. destroyed, but still there was far less physical impact than with the previous event.
Racked by guilt, Santa has also been working hard ever since on further reducing the likelihood of further sightings (eg: Naughty list), and their potential impact, but further details are secret.
Likewise that's why you should NEVER EVER see the easter bunny ! ..
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