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Tracking-all-the-way: NORAD keeps Santa under surveillance
Published: 24 December, 2011, 20:58
AFP Photo / Jonathan Nackstrand
TAGS: Children, Travel, Internet, True Fiction, USA, Social networks
As Santa is once again moving along his annual route around the globe, the penetrating eye of NORAD is tracking his every move. And with Big Brother watching, Old Saint Nick cannot afford to let things slide and leave some good kid without a present.
During the holidays, the North American Aerospace Defense Command's mission is to make sure Christmas comes with all the trimmings. The operation began on 2am EST on December 24, and the tracking crew will stay on high alert until 3am Mountain Time on December 25.
The official NORAD Santa site offers a world map where you can find all the the old man's stops so far, his current location, and the coordinates of his next waypoint. All Santa’s movements are captured on photo and video, and clicking at a camera icon will bring up a video blog post about the place he visited.
Santa can also be tracked through any mobile device packed with Google maps. Just type “Santa” in and you’ll get his location. This year, developers have even come out with Santa-tracking applications for Android an iOS devices.
The custom of following Santa as he does his work is not new, having appeared more than 50 years ago.
As legend has it, the tradition was born in 1955 after a little boy called the wrong number and reached NORAD’s commander-in-chief. The boy, thinking he had reached a Talk-to-Santa hotline, asked to speak to Santa. Colonel Harry Shoup decided not to disillusion the kid and ordered his team to check their radar for signs of Santa’s sleigh.
Today's Santa-tracking team is a serious branch of NORAD that uses some 120 phone lines and 23 laptops to answers phone calls, emails and messages in social media during the holidays. Live updates from the team can be found on Facebook, Twitter and Google+.
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MikeNZ wrote in#2
Bryan, the man is a RAVING LUNATIC!
He claims the British for everything, of course, most of the Commonwealth, which makes up a big chunk of the World are British by default and or ancestry.
There is no conspiracy to start WW3 by the British people - far from it.
Both Russia and Britain - along with most of Europe - share a common linkage through their royal families.
Sure, he is doing a hard sell on the Americans starting WW3 - which any informed observer is already aware of.
However he's just annulled most of his intelligent audience by prattling on about 'conspiracies' that just don't exist.
Here we have another case study of an individual who can't see past the shadow of his head.
The first, is the British people are not to blame, I'm referring the specific role that the British Empire has had since the Treaty of Paris in 1763, or the so-called, "British East India Company," or for those who believe in the hand up a*#, oh, excuse me, "free-market," that is the "monetarist" Empire. It is that system to which I make my remarks to, and since it IS collapsing, as we see in the Trans-Alanctic region, particularly the entire Euro-Zone collapse, and here in the U.S., hard to say which one will go first, however; those who would "saved" the dead, which has been dead since those who engaged in the fictitious activities of "bailing out," the "free-market," at the expense mind you of the people!
So, What is there"final solution?" War!
And that is clearly that Empire's intention...Why? Because they are dead themselves. And an Obama in office will secure mankind into the death effects of that Empire's vortex of the nothingness of they are the soul-less driver.
Will we be suckered into it?
To be, or, not to be, that Dear Mike, is for you to answer.
Bryan, the man is a RAVING LUNATIC!
He claims the British for everything, of course, most of the Commonwealth, which makes up a big chunk of the World are British by default and or ancestry.
There is no conspiracy to start WW3 by the British people - far from it.
Both Russia and Britain - along with most of Europe - share a common linkage through their royal families.
Sure, he is doing a hard sell on the Americans starting WW3 - which any informed observer is already aware of.
However he's just annulled most of his intelligent audience by prattling on about 'conspiracies' that just don't exist.
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