Tracking down Santa's Working Route
An interesting news by BBC or at least i thought it was interesting is about the US military tracks Santa's Christmas Eve journey. It said the engineering director for Google Earth and Google Maps are tracking Santa work routes.
According to sources, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad) has been tracking Santa for over 50 years. So now children can follow Santa’s progress via its website or on Twitter, Facebook or via Google Maps or Google Earth.
I’m not and have nothing against the holiday spirits just thinking out loud and try to follow the logic here, whatever happen to tracking al-Qaeda or Osama bin Laden and his bunch of merry man??!!
It is becoming the hi-tech equivalent of reading The Night Before Christmas to excited children on Christmas Eve. According to BBC:”Father Christmas's journey starts at 1100GMT on 24 December and children can track his progress as he passes 24 "Santa cams" around the world”. I don’t know about you but the phrase “Santa cams” is just so wrong…I hope Santa doesn’t break the speed limit during the festive season or drink and drive or worst get caught doing no-nos on Santa/traffic cam….
Not only they can track Santa but also they can check out Santa's village and see how well the elves are getting on with making presents. Let me take a wild stab in the dark here with regards to where on earth the elves are..If I would to place a bunch of elves making me presents and of course with a little help of the ink print label at the back of my present that says “Made in China”…I would say the elves are in China….
Norad (a military organization that is responsible for the aerospace and maritime defense of the US and Canada) volunteers are on hand on Christmas Eve to answer e-mails about Father Christmas's journey at noradtrackssanta@gmail.com. Again I’m not and have nothing against the holiday spirits or how to spread the goodwill of holiday spirits so by all means email away….
The tradition of tracking Father Christmas goes back to a misprint in a Colorado newspaper advertisement in 1955. The hotline to Santa promised by the paper actually connected to what was known then as the Continental Air Defense Command (Conad). As more phone calls came in, the commander on the other end of the phone started to pretend he was Santa and the tradition continued in 1958 when Conad became Norad. Last year alone volunteers received 75,000 phone calls and about 6,000 e-mails from 200 countries.
The system works, according to Norad, because Rudolph the reindeer's famous nose gives off an infrared signature similar to a missile launch. I hope Rudolph nose is non-nuclear because I would hate to be the receiving end of it if Rudolph wake up one day with a PMS and a major axe to grind with Santa over the management differences.
According to sources, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad) has been tracking Santa for over 50 years. So now children can follow Santa’s progress via its website or on Twitter, Facebook or via Google Maps or Google Earth.
I’m not and have nothing against the holiday spirits just thinking out loud and try to follow the logic here, whatever happen to tracking al-Qaeda or Osama bin Laden and his bunch of merry man??!!
It is becoming the hi-tech equivalent of reading The Night Before Christmas to excited children on Christmas Eve. According to BBC:”Father Christmas's journey starts at 1100GMT on 24 December and children can track his progress as he passes 24 "Santa cams" around the world”. I don’t know about you but the phrase “Santa cams” is just so wrong…I hope Santa doesn’t break the speed limit during the festive season or drink and drive or worst get caught doing no-nos on Santa/traffic cam….
Not only they can track Santa but also they can check out Santa's village and see how well the elves are getting on with making presents. Let me take a wild stab in the dark here with regards to where on earth the elves are..If I would to place a bunch of elves making me presents and of course with a little help of the ink print label at the back of my present that says “Made in China”…I would say the elves are in China….
Norad (a military organization that is responsible for the aerospace and maritime defense of the US and Canada) volunteers are on hand on Christmas Eve to answer e-mails about Father Christmas's journey at noradtrackssanta@gmail.com. Again I’m not and have nothing against the holiday spirits or how to spread the goodwill of holiday spirits so by all means email away….
The tradition of tracking Father Christmas goes back to a misprint in a Colorado newspaper advertisement in 1955. The hotline to Santa promised by the paper actually connected to what was known then as the Continental Air Defense Command (Conad). As more phone calls came in, the commander on the other end of the phone started to pretend he was Santa and the tradition continued in 1958 when Conad became Norad. Last year alone volunteers received 75,000 phone calls and about 6,000 e-mails from 200 countries.
The system works, according to Norad, because Rudolph the reindeer's famous nose gives off an infrared signature similar to a missile launch. I hope Rudolph nose is non-nuclear because I would hate to be the receiving end of it if Rudolph wake up one day with a PMS and a major axe to grind with Santa over the management differences.
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