what exactly are they tracking?
2006-12-24 08:34:42 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
Just want to say, NASA is joining NORAD to track Santa.
2006-12-24 10:10:15 · update #1
Nothing. It is just a PR stunt that NASA does every year. People like it, and NASA needs the good press to keep getting money from the government. So it is a little bit of "while lie" to make Christmas a little more fun for children.
Although on the radar, it does look a lot like a reindeer drawn sleigh flying along, but that, of course, is impossible.
Right...?
2006-12-24 08:39:18 · answer #1 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
First of all, NORAD is tracking Santa, not NASA. They've been tracking him since 1955.
http://www.noradsanta.com/en/default.php
As for Santa not being real, please read the following letter.
It's an editorial published in the New York Sun in 1897. It was an answer to a letter written by a little girl named Virginia O'Hanlon, who asked the editor of the Sun if there was a Santa Claus:
"Dear Editor—
I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, “If you see it in The Sun, it’s so.” Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia O’Hanlon"
"Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank GOD! He lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood."
http://www.newseum.org/yesvirginia/
2006-12-24 17:04:34 · answer #2 · answered by krissydahs93 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I belive that is is NORAD not NASA that it tracking "santa". I am guessing its an route preplanned for all the little children who want to know when "santa" will pay them a visit.
2006-12-24 16:42:35 · answer #3 · answered by Barbie! 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The N is the only thing that you had right, it's NORAD, that is tracking Santa, they don't only track our shuttles but the track the jolly ol' elf to make sure that he will get here save and sound.
2006-12-24 16:57:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
im a teen and i have a kinda small house. we have a downstairs garage. i go in it to get coke all the time.there are no presents. ive seen mi parents' closet......no presents. so where could they hide them. have u ever thought that he might be real????why would someone as important as norad (the people that protect the usa from nukes and bombs and stuff) track something so small if it was fake?????!!!!!!!!hes real. im 18 and i believe.
2006-12-24 16:48:26 · answer #5 · answered by ginga rale 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is something they are pretending to do just for kids. There aren't really tracking anything. Even scientist can have a Christmas spirit.
2006-12-24 16:37:16 · answer #6 · answered by graff_monster@sbcglobal.net 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Santa not real you cant me serious . There,s a little bit of
SANTA in every little child's mom or dad. So they must be trackin rudolph....
And rudolf of course is real.
2006-12-24 16:41:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Their sister company...known as JPL! Tis the season to expand their band width by using anything that will take people's minds off of what's really goin' on!
2006-12-24 16:37:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ALIENS. NO they do it for the SMART KIDS that are intrested in SANTA still. Eather that or someone working there still belives in SANTA.
2006-12-24 16:36:56 · answer #9 · answered by Hi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The spirit of Christmas.
2006-12-24 16:37:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋