Author Topic: The origin of NORAD's Santa tracker (Read 1836 times)

Balog · « **on:** December 20, 2014, 10:56:24 AM »

http://www.npr.org/2014/12/19/371647099/norads-santa-tracker-began-with-a-typo-and-a-good-sport

Interesting read. It's especially amusing that a top secret "Holy crap WWIII is starting" alert line phone number got outed in that way. These days we'd probably waterboard the little kids who called.

TechMan · « **Reply #1 on:** December 20, 2014, 12:29:13 PM »

That's cool, thank you for posting that.

Jamie B · « **Reply #2 on:** December 20, 2014, 12:42:36 PM »

Very cool - thank you!

Sent from my iPhone

Hawkmoon · « **Reply #3 on:** December 20, 2014, 07:10:05 PM »

That's a neat story, and I have never heard it before.

Kudos to the Colonel.

wmenorr67 · « **Reply #4 on:** December 22, 2014, 06:46:51 AM »

Thanks for sharing.

See not all of us in the Service are Ogres.

AmbulanceDriver · « **Reply #5 on:** December 23, 2014, 01:42:37 AM »

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