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Santa, NORAD, and You
December 22, 2015 at 10:50 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Aerospace_Defense_Command#NORAD_Tracks_Santa
https://twitter.com/NoradSanta
The Seattle Times was tweeting that NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD, /ˈnɔræd/) which is a combined organization of the United States and Canada that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and defense for Northern America, has started tracking Santa, as they do every year about tthis time.
NORAD is a military organization of sorts, if I understand correctly. Charged with certain aspects of keeping us safe.
I'm not even sure what my question or comment is, but it's been mathematically proven time in, time out, that Santa just can't travel quite that fast, especially if he hangs out for milk and cookies.
I wonder if all this does more to destroy the Santa myth than go along with it. But then,maybe that's a good thing. Mybiological father, forz whatever reason, was a mall Santa, but decidedly went against immersing me in the belief of Santa.
I dunno. Any thoughts, parents and the rest of us alike?
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RE: Santa, NORAD, and You
December 23, 2015 at 12:21 am
I used the Santa tracker with my Kids and they loved it. It was especially useful when he got close to us and I told the girls that if they didn't get in bed soon, Santa wouldn't stop at our house.
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RE: Santa, NORAD, and You
December 23, 2015 at 12:40 am
The consequences of Santa traveling at near light speed in the earth's atmosphere would be devastating to the planet.
Additionally, LOL, the NORAD radar would be unable to track such an object.
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RE: Santa, NORAD, and You
December 23, 2015 at 12:41 am
But it's fun for the kids
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RE: Santa, NORAD, and You
December 23, 2015 at 12:47 am
I'm too much of a grinch to have kids.
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RE: Santa, NORAD, and You
December 23, 2015 at 12:50 am
Hyper-nuclear incineration of the planet is 'fun' ??
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RE: Santa, NORAD, and You
December 23, 2015 at 12:51 am
Lol vor. No. The idea of Santa. At least I made it fun for my kids.
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RE: Santa, NORAD, and You
December 23, 2015 at 4:48 am
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All of these objections go away when you remember that Santa is magic.
I watched Arthur Christmas a couple of days ago, nice film! It sure helped me understand the technical details a bit better.
We just need to dispel this myth that he physically lives at the North Pole. People think they can just disprove him by going there.
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RE: Santa, NORAD, and You
December 23, 2015 at 2:58 pm
How about disproving him by noting he failed to deliver a speck of food to any starving kid anywhere on the planet ?
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RE: Santa, NORAD, and You
December 23, 2015 at 3:03 pm
Enjoy your visits from Santa while you can, folks.
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