For the 50th year in a row, the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) will be tracking the movements of Santa Claus as he delivers presents to children throughout the world. Over 1,000 U.S. Air Force Santa trackers will again operate out of the Santa Operations Center (SOC), Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colorado. In addition to using radar and satellites, NORAD will utilize a worldwide network of high-tech cameras to take photos and videos of Santa. Using Google software, these will be posted on the NORAD website, which had over 10.5 million visitors on Christmas Eve in 2007. The website lets visitors track Santa's travels on a Google map as well as on Google Earth.
One very important lesson learned by NORAD is stated by USAF Major Stacia Redish, "From all of our years of tracking Santa, we... know that he only comes to a home where the children are asleep." Thus, all kids waiting for Santa need to go to bed on Christmas Eve when their parents tell them to!
In a related development, professor Larry Silverberg of the North Carolina State engineering department has noted that, "Santa exploits the space-time continuum" and uses thermodynamics and nanotechnology to circumnavigate the globe and deliver hundreds of millions of presents on Christmas Eve. Yes, the Big Claus is a primo scientist and some suspect that he once counseled with Albert Einstein.
Silverberg said that the Big Claus is stretching and compressing space and time into a short delivery span. Silverberg added that Santa's special reindeer have been genetically engineered to fly, and the naughty and nice list is produced using giant polar antennae and radar-style signals. So, you'd better be good!
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