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Title: NORAD tracks Santa Claus
Post by: Cobra951 on Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 11:05:14 AM

Your tax dollars at work (http://www.noradsanta.org/en/home.html).  The tradition started the year after I was born, and I just now found out about it.

Title: Re: NORAD tracks Santa Claus
Post by: Xessive on Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 11:58:20 AM

No way, they didn't have the technology that long ago! NORAD didn't even exist then!

Title: Re: NORAD tracks Santa Claus
Post by: gpw12 on Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 01:36:37 PM

I don't even know if Christmas existed then.

Title: Re: NORAD tracks Santa Claus
Post by: gpw11 on Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 06:48:22 PM

Man, I don't know why those guys are such dicks.  You've actually aged very gracefully Cobra. 

Title: Re: NORAD tracks Santa Claus
Post by: Cobra951 on Thursday, December 25, 2008, 07:48:45 AM

Quote from: Xessive on Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 11:58:20 AM

No way, they didn't have the technology that long ago! NORAD didn't even exist then!

You're right.  It was called the Continental Air Defense Command.  NORAD didn't come until a few years later.

Title: Re: NORAD tracks Santa Claus
Post by: Xessive on Friday, December 26, 2008, 04:30:42 AM

Hehe sorry Cobra, I laughed at your expense at gpw12's joke :P

So, I don't get this thing.. Is it for kids? Is it a simulator indicating where Papa Noël would be hypothetically? I mena what are they tracking exactly?

Title: Re: NORAD tracks Santa Claus
Post by: Cobra951 on Friday, December 26, 2008, 07:08:51 AM

After looking at it briefly, it seems to be following midnight around the globe.  Yeah, it's just for kids.