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Santa and NORAD
Posted: 2002-12-24 09:51am
by Vympel
http://www.janes.com/defence/news/misc/ ... _1_n.shtml
Proving that even stodgy military analysts like Jane's have a sense of humor.
Re: Santa and NORAD
Posted: 2002-12-24 09:55am
by Ted
They've been doing that for years.
Posted: 2002-12-24 09:59am
by Vympel
Of that I am well aware, however considering this is SD.net's first Christmas, I didn't see why shouldn't post it, and it is also not a given that everyone else on this board is well aware of it
Posted: 2002-12-24 10:02am
by Ted
True that, though considering the level of intelligence here, I doubt that few HAVEN'T heard of that.
Posted: 2002-12-24 10:05am
by Vympel
Ted wrote:True that, though considering the level of intelligence here, I doubt that few HAVEN'T heard of that.
Possibly. Though a "do you know WTF NORAD means" poll wouldn't be untoward
Posted: 2002-12-24 10:11am
by Ted
More than untoward, more like bloody idiotic. Though there might be a few here that don't know what it is.
Posted: 2002-12-24 10:27am
by HemlockGrey
Who is this Jane person?
Posted: 2002-12-24 10:56am
by Vympel
It's not a person- it's a group
Posted: 2002-12-24 12:29pm
by Ted
HemlockGrey wrote:Who is this Jane person?
Fred T. Jane, the worlds greatest Game Strategist and Naval reviewer.
A Brit, from around 1880-?
Posted: 2002-12-24 02:45pm
by neoolong
Just watch as someone uses the tracking radar to shoot down Santa.
Posted: 2002-12-24 03:32pm
by Sea Skimmer
neoolong wrote:Just watch as someone uses the tracking radar to shoot down Santa.
The Cobra Dane array out in Alaska could probably fry the reindeer's brains at 50 miles. Most lesser air search radars kill birds close in when there at full power.
Posted: 2002-12-25 01:10am
by Dennis Toy
As i say, if your gonna kill santa, don't do it half-ass, do it
ALL THE WAY!!
Posted: 2002-12-25 01:33am
by Sea Skimmer
How do you expect to hit a guy who is [1] Flying [2] Moving at many tens of thousands of miles per hour to make all his deliveries in time, with a weapon as inflexible as a MX ICBM?
If you mean to destroy his base of operationsat the north pole, I'd go with a commando assault to catch him as he lands. Then my men would haul off those incredibly productive elves my your evil labs and superweapon production plants before blowing the place with a emplaced Atomic Demolition Munition.
Posted: 2002-12-25 02:33am
by consequences
I'd just nuke the hell out of his flight path, and let him fly into the detonations.
Posted: 2002-12-25 02:35am
by XaLEv
I'd Knifemissile the fucker.
Send a drone or two around to catch the falling reindeer meat.
Posted: 2002-12-25 02:44am
by Sea Skimmer
consequences wrote:I'd just nuke the hell out of his flight path, and let him fly into the detonations.
At the speed's he need to move, Santa would be able to outrun the shock waves and would need massive heat shielding anyway.
Posted: 2002-12-25 02:47am
by consequences
Not if hes moving directly into a shockwave expanding towards him.
Posted: 2002-12-25 02:53am
by Sea Skimmer
He'd be able to go around or over it.
Posted: 2002-12-25 02:54am
by Vympel
Why not just shoot him
Posted: 2002-12-25 02:59am
by Sea Skimmer
Vympel wrote:Why not just shoot him
http://www.religioustolerance.org/santa2.htm
If you could get into a position in which your bullet had a chance of hitting, dead ahead, you could just use a brick. In any case the odds of reaching such a position are rather low. Best to wait in ambush for him to land and get out of the uber sleigh.