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Official NORAD Tracks Santa
- glasss 4y agoWorks surprisingly well on Firefox mobile. Maybe it shouldn't be surprising to me anymore though, sometimes I think of technology problems in the mind frame of when I first encountered the problem, however many years ago that was.
- delta_p_delta_x 4y agoMerry Christmas to everyone! Somewhat related: Jeppesen charts for the North Pole and Santa's workshop[1]. Quite hilarious, for anyone familiar with aviation charts! https://ww2.jeppesen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/north-pole-chart.pdf https://ww2.jeppesen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/north-po...
- psidebot 4y agoThanks for sharing from a recent IRA pilot! I'm surprised they didn't do this as a CAT III ILS. A DA of 250' with Rudolph leaves a lot of margin for Santa to get snowed in.
- leetrout 4y agoWhere did you find this? I thoroughly enjoyed looking over it. Merry Christmas and thanks for sharing.
- delta_p_delta_x 4y agoI saw a screenshot of it on /r/aviation, and I thought I'd find the actual PDF on Jeppesen's website after a Google search. I can't seem to find anywhere on Jeppesen's website which lists all their commemorative charts, unfortunately. There are some more interesting ones: - 'Miracle on the Hudson' approach: https://ww2.jeppesen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/us-airways-flight-1549-sully-skiles-hudson-river-miracle-approach.pdf https://ww2.jeppesen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/us-airwa... - AOPA (Aircraft Owners and Pilot Association) 80th anniversary approach: https://ww2.jeppesen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/AOPA-80th-Anniversary-Commemorative-Chart.pdf https://ww2.jeppesen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/AOPA-80t...
- leetrout 4y agoI had no idea they did this. Thanks!
- TheFreim 4y agoMerry Christmas, may your celebration of the Savior's birth be a joy filled one!
- delta_p_delta_x 4y agoI don't personally celebrate it, but thanks anyway! I just wish it to others because I know they do. :)
- yread 4y agoCheckout the scalebar Not to scale
- sertsa 4y agoI'm confused, Norad and Google's tracker show completely different positions and even itineraries. Is Santa really twins?
- treebeard901 4y agoAccording to the FBI, Nicholas Clause aka Santa has been known to use jamming devices that cause interference when tracking his slave labor based international shipping empire. He also uses numerous decoy sleighs and Santas to obfuscate his true locations as he goes around the world committing criminal trespassing on a scale never before seen in history and often is known to leave a calling card behind in the form of presents and often burgles the homes he trespasses into, with reports stating he often steals various kinds of food as some kind of sick joke. His treatment of the Reindeer endangered species has also been under review. Consider Nicholas to be extremely dangerous if you or a loved one happen to catch him inside your home this evening. Please report anything regarding this individual to tips.fbi.gov or by calling 911
- galangalalgol 4y agoRemember, santa is just a catholic saint's name plastered on wodenaz/odin doing product placement for coca-cola, a company that used to give kids cocaine and now offers something arguably more harmful. Woden isn't exactly cuddly. No one ever sees santa, but missing persons spike at the solstice. I'm not saying he takes people who spot him, I'm just saying stay in bed tonight...
- aceazzameen 4y agoI've always wondered if Google has ever tried contacting Norad to see about syncing their Santa data. Norad has been doing this longer, so it's always been a minor annoyance that Google's data has to be different.
- askiiart 4y agoSanta is also on flightradar24 as SANTA1 [0], and that's not synced with either! Such an annoying mild annoyance... [0] https://fr24.com/R3DN053/2ea2ef9b https://fr24.com/R3DN053/2ea2ef9b
- mc32 4y agoBy now most people are familiar with the origin story (mistyped phone number in an ad for kids to call Santa at Sears). But for this unfamiliar: https://abc7news.com/norad-santa-tracker-christmas/448262/ https://abc7news.com/norad-santa-tracker-christmas/448262/
- cwal37 4y agoCurious to listen to this podcast[0], but it seems that that is not true. [0] https://twitter.com/aaronstein1/status/1606762318397784064?s=20&t=w4wBo5HS8H5115Ae9eebKQ https://twitter.com/aaronstein1/status/1606762318397784064?s...
- mc32 4y agoDoesn’t seem this person provides any evidence to the contrary or even believable hearsay to the contrary.
- dang 4y agohttps://gizmodo.com/how-the-u-s-military-turned-santa-claus-into-a-cold-wa-1664149776 https://gizmodo.com/how-the-u-s-military-turned-santa-claus-... https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/12/yes-virginia-there-is-a-norad/421161/ https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/12/yes-vir...
- matteocantiello 4y agoNot showing travel speed was a missed opportunity
- askiiart 4y agoFlightradar24 has flight speed - 727 knots, when I checked last https://fr24.com/R3DN053/2ea2ef9b https://fr24.com/R3DN053/2ea2ef9b
- failrate 4y agoIf I post this on Twitter, would my account be suspended?
- mosdl 4y agoCame to post the same joke, seems like a good meme joke for the holidays?
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- dmschulman 4y agoVery shameful the US government would post Santa's assassination coordinates.
- ddmma 4y agoHope that someone will do that ride for real and be tracked with Starlink satellites triangulations. Merry Christmas, HN!
- tonto 4y agoI remember my neighbors dad showing us this on their compaq pc. I can't remember exactly what year it was I would guess it was probably <2004. I think it had a cool 3d visualizer thing with lots of polys but not google earth
- itslennysfault 4y agoCool as always. Sadly, super broken on Firefox. the whole view is just a tiny sliver on the left size. Works well on Chrome.
- dang 4y agoRelated: Child calling Santa reached NORAD instead. Christmas was never the same (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29692376 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29692376 - Dec 2021 (2 comments) NORAD's Crazy Santa Cause - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16003828 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16003828 - Dec 2017 (4 comments) NORAD's Santa Tracker Began with a Typo and a Good Sport (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13094879 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13094879 - Dec 2016 (16 comments) but see also https://gizmodo.com/how-the-u-s-military-turned-santa-claus-into-a-cold-wa-1664149776 https://gizmodo.com/how-the-u-s-military-turned-santa-claus-... https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/12/yes-virginia-there-is-a-norad/421161/ https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/12/yes-vir...
- sircastor 4y agoMy teenager just came in and asked me if I'd heard of this before. It was fun to explain the story and bring up the website - I'd forgotten about it.
- acidburnNSA 4y agoKind of cheerless but I enjoyed this Nuclear Weapons Anthropologist's critical take on the NORAD Santa thing. https://mobile.twitter.com/NuclearAnthro/status/1341895705212846080 https://mobile.twitter.com/NuclearAnthro/status/134189570521...
- zinekeller 4y agoObivously not directed at you, but I would actually take this as a cynical take, for goodness sake, it was just a happy coincidence that the number was misprinted (which evolved into this, and he didn't dispute this). It seems that he was angry on NORAD (which its merits and dishonors can be discussed endlessly), but I hate the absolutism of his post.
- VictorPath 4y agoThe US military just shifted its bloody campaigns in Afghanistan and Libya to a bloody war against Russia, a focus of its new massive military budget while it cries poverty regarding the needs of even its own workers for domestic programs. That the Christian holiday is tied into the US military apparatus with its imperial bases and adventures throughout the world is no surprise.
- KnuthIsGod 4y ago"North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) " When will NORAD start celebrating the Great Wiccan Sabbats, including Samhain ? Should a secular nation's military be promoting one religion's holiday ? Do NORAD do anything similar for Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Sikh, Zoroastrian, Yazidi, or Wiccan celebrations ?
- roughly 4y agoTake this as a positive, rather than a normative, statement: there’s a state religion in the US, and Christmas is one of its holidays. The prime actor in American Christmas is Santa Claus, as made famous by the Coca Cola company in the early 20th century. You can draw some line between the Christian celebration around the 25th and the modern American holiday known as Christmas, but it’s roughly the same relation as the Christian holiday had with its solstice predecessors. Christmas in the 21st century in America is a predominantly commercial affair, any relationship to any prior religious celebrations is largely coincidental at this point.
- charcircuit 4y agoHow is Santa delivering hundreds of thousands of gifts while he is over the middle of a large body of water?
- jasonboyd 4y agoHow is Santa over a large body of water in a sleigh pulled by reindeer? Magic my friend.
- raverbashing 4y agoSpeaking of that, there would be a related prank that could be done in the UK this year, as the ISS would fly straight up the sky the morning of the 25th You don't anyone getting the wrong ideas there
- carabiner 4y agoSanta deniers suicidal.
- Deprogrammer9 4y agoKinda WEIRD that military fighter jets follow Santa around "protecting" him. https://youtu.be/MU1iptxTbog https://youtu.be/MU1iptxTbog
- IYasha 4y agoIt that the same tracker they used in Santa's Slay? :) Probably not. )