Topic: NORAD tracks Santa Claus

[Cobra951]

Your tax dollars at work.  The tradition started the year after I was born, and I just now found out about it.

[Xessive]

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

[gpw12]

I don't even know if Christmas existed then.

[gpw11]

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

[Cobra951]

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.

[Xessive]

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

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?

[Cobra951]

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