NORAD tracks Santa using Radar, GPS & high speed cameras
5 Dec 2011
Pete Wood
United Kingdom
Only a few more sleeps left now until Christmas eve when Santa sets out to deliver toys to kids and gadgets to us geeks! :0) But did you know that modern technology actually allows us to track Santa on his journey?
Last year I stumbled across this brilliant website from NORAD. With no expense spared, every year NORAD track's Santa in real time as he delivers presents around the globe. I for one am hoping for a new GPS, as my current one decides to stop working when I’m close to my destination! My kids love this site, and it ensures they are in bed on Christmas eve within good time.
Now we come to the logistics of the whole thing. If he was simply to travel in a circle around the Earth, then that’s about 25,000 miles, however, to visit every child's home in the world means that he would more likely travel around 4,670,193.27 miles in 24 hours! That means he either has to travel faster than star light, or install a Flux Capacitor to get over the space-time continuum issue. So tracking Santa using conventional Radar, GPS and high-speed camera's isn't going to work, and will require some pretty sophisticated technology that is not available to you and I, and probably developed by those guys who work in the middle of the Nevada desert. ;0)
Anyway, this video below from Norad, tells us how they do it.
Merry Christmas to all you DesignSparkers, and thank you to all for your contributions to the site this year.
All attempts by NORAD are doomed to failure, because they are trying to follow one Santa. but the fact is that they are confused, Santa uses a "platform paradox" based on a T.A.R.D.I.S. (award of Doctor Who) to be at the same time in different places. Any attempt to follow it, only create the illusion up and disappear, as it is not in one place / time, but in several places at the same time giving the impression of having multiple "Santa", more so, the paradox produces distortion Santa's image, making it look different in every moment / place :-) :-)
ah yes!, however with the process of crossing the space time continuum, what about "The Butterfly Affect"…..... On second thoughts… it’s too cold for butterflies in the North Pole…..;0)
The capability of NORAD of tracking Santa's flight is amazing, but I think most people miss the true nature of this Santa phenomenon.
I propose that Santa is able to execute his tasks by the grace of a special kind of massive parallelism. Santa IS able to be virtually in multiple places by our newtonian perception, executing different threads of execution virtually simultaneously, so that only one instance can be observed at once by an observer. If you can observe more than one Santa at a time, there are some turbulences in the time-space continuum, or it's the usual case of atl least one instance of "Fake Santa". Normally, you can see one instance of Santa even they are many.
Yes, and I do have insider information. I'm a Finn - and Santa Claus comes from Korvatunturi, Finland which is BEHIND of the North Pole the in the point of view of NORAD. Santa has his visitor office in town called Rovaniemi, just 2500 km off North pole.
Everyone knows that Santa uses a turbo-charged flux capacitor in the sleigh's engine. The engine control system features a Phantastron spark-advance. -Pete
['Phantastron' is a real circuit - Google it!]
BTW, I'm just a few miles from Cheyenne Mountain, the home of NORAD.
Nice! So, the jingle of the sleigh bells isn't from the Reindeer at all?! but could be in fact the sound that his Phantastron makes when tuned correctly by his Elves, alowing NORAD to also track him using his noise signiture pattern through time and space.... ;0)
Jaizco
All attempts by NORAD are doomed to failure, because they are trying to follow one Santa. but the fact is that they are confused, Santa uses a "platform paradox" based on a T.A.R.D.I.S. (award of Doctor Who) to be at the same time in different places.
Any attempt to follow it, only create the illusion up and disappear, as it is not in one place / time, but in several places at the same time giving the impression of having multiple "Santa", more so, the paradox produces distortion Santa's image, making it look different in every moment / place
:-) :-)
Pete Wood
ah yes!, however with the process of crossing the space time continuum, what about "The Butterfly Affect"…..... On second thoughts… it’s too cold for butterflies in the North Pole…..;0)
alsk
The capability of NORAD of tracking Santa's flight is amazing, but I think most people miss the true nature of this Santa phenomenon.
I propose that Santa is able to execute his tasks by the grace of a special kind of massive parallelism. Santa IS able to be virtually in multiple places by our newtonian perception, executing different threads of execution virtually simultaneously, so that only one instance can be observed at once by an observer. If you can observe more than one Santa at a time, there are some turbulences in the time-space continuum, or it's the usual case of atl least one instance of "Fake Santa". Normally, you can see one instance of Santa even they are many.
Yes, and I do have insider information. I'm a Finn - and Santa Claus comes from Korvatunturi, Finland which is BEHIND of the North Pole the in the point of view of NORAD. Santa has his visitor office in town called Rovaniemi, just 2500 km off North pole.
;-)
Pete Wood
ah yes, the "Omnipresent" theory. I guess you'll be one of the first Santa visits, seeing as he's practically one of your neighbours! :0)
saipan59
Everyone knows that Santa uses a turbo-charged flux capacitor in the sleigh's engine. The engine control system features a Phantastron spark-advance. -Pete
['Phantastron' is a real circuit - Google it!]
BTW, I'm just a few miles from Cheyenne Mountain, the home of NORAD.
Pete Wood
Nice! So, the jingle of the sleigh bells isn't from the Reindeer at all?! but could be in fact the sound that his Phantastron makes when tuned correctly by his Elves, alowing NORAD to also track him using his noise signiture pattern through time and space.... ;0)