Thanks for sharing from a recent IRA pilot! I'm surprised they didn't do this as a CAT III ILS. A DA of 250' with Rudolph leaves a lot of margin for Santa to get snowed in.
Obivously not directed at you, but I would actually take this as a cynical take, for goodness sake, it was just a happy coincidence that the number was misprinted (which evolved into this, and he didn't dispute this). It seems that he was angry on NORAD (which its merits and dishonors can be discussed endlessly), but I hate the absolutism of his post.
The US military just shifted its bloody campaigns in Afghanistan and Libya to a bloody war against Russia, a focus of its new massive military budget while it cries poverty regarding the needs of even its own workers for domestic programs.
That the Christian holiday is tied into the US military apparatus with its imperial bases and adventures throughout the world is no surprise.
According to the FBI, Nicholas Clause aka Santa has been known to use jamming devices that cause interference when tracking his slave labor based international shipping empire. He also uses numerous decoy sleighs and Santas to obfuscate his true locations as he goes around the world committing criminal trespassing on a scale never before seen in history and often is known to leave a calling card behind in the form of presents and often burgles the homes he trespasses into, with reports stating he often steals various kinds of food as some kind of sick joke.
His treatment of the Reindeer endangered species has also been under review.
Consider Nicholas to be extremely dangerous if you or a loved one happen to catch him inside your home this evening.
Please report anything regarding this individual to tips.fbi.gov or by calling 911
Remember, santa is just a catholic saint's name plastered on wodenaz/odin doing product placement for coca-cola, a company that used to give kids cocaine and now offers something arguably more harmful. Woden isn't exactly cuddly. No one ever sees santa, but missing persons spike at the solstice. I'm not saying he takes people who spot him, I'm just saying stay in bed tonight...
I've always wondered if Google has ever tried contacting Norad to see about syncing their Santa data. Norad has been doing this longer, so it's always been a minor annoyance that Google's data has to be different.
Works surprisingly well on Firefox mobile. Maybe it shouldn't be surprising to me anymore though, sometimes I think of technology problems in the mind frame of when I first encountered the problem, however many years ago that was.
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Somewhat related: Jeppesen charts for the North Pole and Santa's workshop[1]. Quite hilarious, for anyone familiar with aviation charts!
https://ww2.jeppesen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/north-po...
I can't seem to find anywhere on Jeppesen's website which lists all their commemorative charts, unfortunately. There are some more interesting ones:
- 'Miracle on the Hudson' approach: https://ww2.jeppesen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/us-airwa...
- AOPA (Aircraft Owners and Pilot Association) 80th anniversary approach: https://ww2.jeppesen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/AOPA-80t...
Child calling Santa reached NORAD instead. Christmas was never the same (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29692376 - Dec 2021 (2 comments)
NORAD's Crazy Santa Cause - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16003828 - Dec 2017 (4 comments)
NORAD's Santa Tracker Began with a Typo and a Good Sport (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13094879 - Dec 2016 (16 comments)
but see also
https://gizmodo.com/how-the-u-s-military-turned-santa-claus-...
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/12/yes-vir...
[0] https://twitter.com/aaronstein1/status/1606762318397784064?s...
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/12/yes-vir...
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https://mobile.twitter.com/NuclearAnthro/status/134189570521...
That the Christian holiday is tied into the US military apparatus with its imperial bases and adventures throughout the world is no surprise.
Consider Nicholas to be extremely dangerous if you or a loved one happen to catch him inside your home this evening.
Please report anything regarding this individual to tips.fbi.gov or by calling 911
https://web.archive.org./web/20120108000436/http://www.usato...
https://web.archive.org/web/20120119095752/http://www.networ...
[0] https://fr24.com/R3DN053/2ea2ef9b