NORAD tracks Santa...

[starwefter]

Sometimes you just find something cute...

NORAD, which is a joint American/Canadian military defense operation that normally watches for things like missiles and enemy jets, tracks Santa every Christmas Eve with their radar. This is the video they made in 2007... It's actually pretty cool...

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Comments

[jesskat]

I like how they made him go to a lot of old ruins and places that generally haven't been inhabited by humans for hundreds of years just to avoid researching what cities outside of America look like.;P Couldn't they have at least snuck the old cliché view of the Eiffel tower in there or something?

[starwefter]

Well, I think they may have been going for obvious and recognizable -- the Great Wall of China looks like nothing else, as do the Pyramids of Giza, whereas one of our local Chinese restaurants has a huge lit-from-behind picture of Hong Kong at night on their wall. And it looks like a large city with a waterway through it and a lot of lights and skyscrapers, but otherwise fairly indistinguishable from, say, New York, or Tokyo, or Cairo, or Honolulu, or London, or Sidney, or Buenes Aires. Other than fairly obvious skyline landmarks like the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, the Sidney Opera House, or the Seattle Space Needle, one large city looks a lot like another. Whereas the Pyramids are definitely Egypt and definitely those pyramids, as opposed to, say, Mayan and Aztec pyramids, or Mesopotamian ziggurats