Google and NORAD Team Up To Track Santa
Google and NORAD (the North American Aerospace Defense Command) are joining together to use Google Maps and Google Earth on Christmas to track Santa Claus as he goes around the world delivering gifts. YouTube is involved somehow too, plus there’s an iGoogle Gadget, and from now until then you can go to noradsanta.com to play a different Flash game every day. Today’s game involves playing Jingle Bells by hitting specific bells in order (pictured above).
I love the Santa biography NORAD gives:
About Santa
Santa maintains a huge list of children who have been good throughout the year. The list even includes addresses, ZIP codes and postal codes. The list, of course, gets bigger each year by virtue of the world’s increasing population. This year’s population right now is 6,634,570,959!
Santa has had to adapt over the years to having less and less time to deliver his toys. If one were to assume he works in the realm of standard time, as we know it, clearly he would have perhaps two to three ten-thousandths of a second to deliver his toys to each child’s home he visits!
The fact that Santa Claus is more than 15 centuries old and does not appear to age is our biggest clue that he does not work within time, as we know it. His Christmas Eve trip may seem to take around 24 hours, but to Santa it could be that it lasts days, weeks or months in standard time. Santa would not want to rush the important job of bringing Christmas happiness to a child, so the only logical conclusion is that Santa somehow functions on a different time and space continuum.
Questions for Santa
As you know, this is Santa’s busiest time of the year. But if it’s really important, click here to send Santa an email. His elves, Chuckles and Buckley, will be sure he gets your mail!
Reads like a solid CIA dossier. There’s also a solid “Is He Real?” page.
