Tracking Santa, With a Little Help from That Brand New GPU

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NORAD began tracking Santa in 1955, when a newspaper ad misprinted a call-in number for Santa. Instead of Santa, callers got the crew commander on duty at the Continental Air Defense Command Air Operations Center – the predecessor to NORAD – in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The crew commander went with it, telling his staff to give callers Santa’s official location. Tracking Santa Goes Viral Since then, NORAD’s efforts have evolved for a connected era. NORAD’s Santa tracking team now has 1.3 million Facebook followers, and — with a little help from a development team led by Scott Hunter at Analytical Graphics, a 250-strong company that develops analysis and visualization software for the aerospace, intelligence and defense community — a site able to report Santa’s location in real time to tens of millions of visitors every Christmas Eve.
 
God, I wish I was that crew commander... I would have told them we sortied interceptors and shot him down with extreme prejudice.
I just gag every time this time of year.
 
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