Follow Santa's Progress-Merry Christmas.

[SteveNickolls]

You can watch Santa's progress here-

Happy Christmas All.

Steve

[Paul M]

I think that's misinformation from Norad. They have Santa over Norway at the time of writing but Flight radar has him in the mid Atlantic having just passed abeam Cape Verde:

https://www.flightradar24.com/7.72,-23.68/5

 

The Sleigh is surely suborbital, that is, it's an aircraft. So I'd give Flight Radar the vote on this.

[maw lod qan]

I always thought it was a cross of stealth technology and hypersonic!

I don't know how they track him and his reindeer!

[Paul M]

7 minutes ago, maw lod qan said:

I always thought it was a cross of stealth technology and hypersonic!

I don't know how they track him and his reindeer!

I think the sleigh travels at hypersonic speed, thereby causing ionic ripples in the sub-temporal, orthogonal phase field. It's a simple matter of tuning a suitably cooled Turbo Encabulator to said filed. 

 

[SteveNickolls]

Rudolph's nose is surely made of incandescent-proof stuff, maybe red kryptonite or Madras paste? 

[DirkSteele]

It’s actually macroscopic quantum coherence. So both of them are correct.

[DirkSteele]

Oh and in case anyone wants to learn more, thank the physicists at Trinity College Dublin.

 

https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/how-does-santa-deliver-billions-of-gifts-in-one-night-quantum-physics-of-course/

Edited December 25, 2023 by DirkSteele

[tomato]

Here is a capture of Santa, or at least Rudolph, transiting M31.

Merry Christmas!🎄 🎅