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Offline Cobra951

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NORAD tracks Santa Claus
« on: Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 11:05:14 AM »
Your tax dollars at work.  The tradition started the year after I was born, and I just now found out about it.
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Offline Xessive

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Re: NORAD tracks Santa Claus
« Reply #1 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!
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Offline gpw12

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Re: NORAD tracks Santa Claus
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday, December 24, 2008, 01:36:37 PM »
I don't even know if Christmas existed then.
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Offline gpw11

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Re: NORAD tracks Santa Claus
« Reply #3 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. 
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Offline Cobra951

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Re: NORAD tracks Santa Claus
« Reply #4 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.
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Offline Xessive

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Re: NORAD tracks Santa Claus
« Reply #5 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?
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Offline Cobra951

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Re: NORAD tracks Santa Claus
« Reply #6 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.
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