Does NORAD Tracks Santa This Year Using Google Earth?
Santa Claus was over Japan early Thursday and heading south toward Guam, the Marshall Islands, New Guinea, and ultimately Australia, according to a special, Google Earth-powered Web site established by the North American Aerospace Defense Command. From Australia, Santa was expected to head east to cover Asia and Europe, before arriving in North America Thursday night.In addition to the tracking maps, the Web site, NoradSanta.org, also features interactive tools that allow children to explore Santa’s village at the North Pole, play holiday-themed card games, and see what’s going on at Santa’s bakery and workshop. NORAD has been tracking Santa ever since 1955, when a Colorado newspaper ad misprinted a phone number that was supposed to connect kids with the jolly Christmas elf. Instead, the number was the NORAD (the agency at the time was known as the Continental Air Defense Command) Commander-in-Chief’s hotline. Not wanting to disappoint
NORAD Tracks Santa is a service offered on Christmas Eve by NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, a joint organization of Canada and the United States. Every year on Christmas Eve “NORAD Tracks Santa” claims to follow Santa Claus, as he leaves the North Pole and delivers presents to children around the world. Contents [hide] * 1 History * 2 Periodic Updates o 2.1 2008 o 2.2 2007 o 2.3 2006 o 2.4 2004 * 3 NORAD’s Account Of Tracking * 4 Corporate Sponsorship * 5 References * 6 External links [edit] History In 1956, a Colorado Springs-based Sears store ran an advertisement encouraging people to call Santa Claus on a special kind of telephone hotline. Due to a printing error, the phone number that was printed was the hotline was actually for Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD). Then-Colonel Harry Shoup received the first call on Christmas Eve of 1955, from a six-year old boy who began reciting his Christmas list. Shoup then didn’t find the call funny, but after asking t
Every year NORAD uses radar, satellites, Santa Cams and fighter jets to track Santa around the world. This year NORAD is using GOogle Earth to track Santa, … Sources: http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_0_0_t&usg=AFQjCNG1rTG1-JqXSaYa7dROusBYhSItJw&sig2=BmSw-39WaaA9jPNz9vNAzw&cid=17593679771103&ei=iLczS-i2Gqjq8gToycP0AQ&rt=SEARCH&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chipchicklets.com%2F2008%2F12%2Fnorad-tracks-santa-year-google.
