Christmas is nearly on us, 10 shopping days to go. Things at the pole were gathering pace, with so much left to do.
Rudolph (him again) was pacing up and down, mashing his cheroot. He cast his mind back to the App::Crag calcs he had done last time – sure all the distances, times and speeds had worked out. But something was still missing. Could he be sure that all the prerequisites were finalised, that the crucial flight would be a success again this year?
Then click, his nose lit up like a lightbulb – what about the fuel. Would they have enough juice in the powerplant to maintain optimium power output throughout the entire long night?
Once again, he cracked open his laptop and his hooves whirred away on the keys.
Present Power
He realised that vertical work against the pull of Earth’s gravity would be the key factor, Santa would need his winch to lower and raise him back up every chimney on the planet…
Green Christmas
New this year was the installation of a large, Lithium ion battery pack in the sleigh. Rudi wondered how many wind turbines would be needed in Lapland to charge up the battery and the capacity of the cabling required…
Rudolph nodded sagely and lit his pipe, it would be alright on the night after all.
Rudolph’s calm and cheery,
ready from the flight—
he’s puffing on his cherrywood pipe,
glowing in the night.
~librasteve
Credits
Some of the App::Crag features in play tonight were:
?<some random LLM query>^<25 mph>– a standard crag unit?^<speed of a diving swallow in mph>– put them together to get units25km– a shortcut if you have simple SI prefixes and units$answer = 42s– crag is just vanilla Raku withno strictapplied
Checkout the crag-of-the-day for more – but beware, this is kinda strangely addictive.
Raku Advent Calendar 