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Friday, Dec. 24, 2010 | 12:12 p.m.
The U.S. military confirms that Santa Claus has departed the North Pole and is now tracking his reindeer-towed sleigh via satellites as he makes his yearly trek around the globe.
As of shortly before noon, the North American Aerospace Defense Command had locked on Santa over the Middle East. To follow him on his trip, go to NORAD’s Santa tracker website.
NORAD uses radar, satellites, special Santa Cams and airborne fighter jets to follow Santa’s progress on Christmas Eve.
Radar detects Santa’s departure from the North Pole and then geo-synchronous satellites with high-tech sensors are able to pick up the infrared signature from Rudolph’s bright red nose to continue tracking the sleigh.
Santa Cams offer live pictures, available on the website, of Saint Nick passing landmarks such as the Taj Mahal in India and the Great Wall of China. Finally, he is escorted into North American airspace by Canadian and U.S. fighter jets.
NORAD and its predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command, have been tracking Santa’s flight since 1955 after a Sears Roebuck & Co. ad for children to call Santa accidentally included the number to the command’s operations hotline.
As children called in, the commander checked the radar to provide updates on Santa’s location and the tradition was born.
Well lets see here....
Starting at the International Date Line heading west, he gets a 48 hour period to deliver a present to every child in the world (4 billion kids), and he has only 172,800 seconds to complete the mission on every December 24.....
That is truly amazing Santa can deliver over 23,148 presents to 23,148 children per each second ... or 43.2 milliseconds per present/per child.
Although they tell me this is possible because Santa does not travel as fast as the speed of light, however the law of earth's gravity prohibits this due to Santa's size and the sleigh cannot even haul 4 billion postage stamps to begin with, let alone 4 billion presents.
If only the US Postal Service and the other couriers can take a page on Santa's amazing delivery tasks.
The US Military couldn't track Bin Laden, what makes them think they can track Santa at near the speed of light ?
If I had a nickel everytime the US Military lied to us, I'd own the US Mint in Philadelphia and in Denver by now !
Never forget about Santa having lots of fans and helpers all over planet earth.
They might have tracked down Santa with his sleigh, but cannot focus on the millions of fans he still has each and every year:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8_NsKO7ZnBk/TR...
Wishing you all a merry christmas and a happy new year.
I just saw Santa playing 5-10 poker at the Mirage. Sorry kids.