Map of the Day: Track Santa's Journey

'Tis the time of year when NORAD, the "bi-national U.S.-Canadian military organization responsible for the aerospace and maritime defense of the United States and Canada," turns its attention to tracking a certain visitor from the North Pole. The NORAD Tracks Santa website features a map showing where Santa has gone and NORAD also has an explanation of how Santa can work the way he does:

The fact that Santa Claus is more than 16 centuries old, yet 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 may last days, weeks or even months in standard time. Santa would not want to rush the important job of distributing presents to children and spreading Christmas happiness everyone, so the only logical conclusion is that Santa functions within a different time-space continuum than the rest of us do.

There are even more videos, such as him flying with the reindeer over the Great Wall...or into space to visit the International Space Station.

Santa will have eaten lots of cookies and milk by the time he gets here!

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By Jen Chung in Arts & Entertainment on December 24, 2008 3:09 PM

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Kojak

Shouldn't NORAD be looking out for incoming ballistic missiles from North Korea, Russia and the like?

Our tax dollars hard at work.

starrygordon

Learn the truth about Santa Claus now, before it's too late!!

http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news1299/santy.html

http://www.biblebelievers.com/watkins_santa/santa.html

http://ellyon17.blogspot.com/

newsyspice

Awww, you're all a bunch of bums.

It's okay to have fun once a year. If it's too much for you, die you should, and decrease the surplus population.

Merry Christmas to all.

Snoopy

I hate to burst your bubble little kiddies, but Santa is a big fat lie. He never existed. It's your mother and father putting the toys under the tree and erecting the train layout (do they still do that). If you look real close you will see the remains of a Toys r Us sticker on the back of the box.

Other than that keep the scam going otherwise you wont get anything next year. Also say "Ooh" and "Ah" a lot even for the pen set that your aunt gave you.