Use Google Earth To Track Santa

Kickboy12 writes "Google Earth can be used to track Santa Claus, beginning at 2pm GMT December 24th. From the article: 'While we didn't work a deal for Naughty or Nice data layers, we did negotiate the rights to track this user on his big trip. If you've already got Google Earth, you can too.' So, if you have Google Earth, track Santa!"

Aaargh

[Anonymous Coward]

It's Santa Claus ffs! There is no "e" on the end of it!

NORAD tracks santa too..

[User 956]

the Norad Santa site is http://www.noradsanta.org/ [noradsanta.org]

The Church put the Santa in Santa Claus

[tepples]

Santa himself is an atheist invention

Santa is only called Santa because the Christian Church has recognized Nicholas of Myra [wikipedia.org], the first Santa Claus, as a saint. (The current Santa is allegedly Tim Allen.)

Re:Norad Santa

[Anonymous Coward]

It's actually a joint effort...

Re:Norad Santa

[AndroidCat]

Check again. [wikipedia.org] The 2nd in command is always a Canadian. And they've tracked Santa since 1955. [wikipedia.org]

Re:wish I could..

[Jim Buzbee]

Google for "googleearth.app.sit"

Re:I'm Spartacus too

[miyako]

Just to point out, for those who don't seem to know, using Xmas as opposed to Christmas was never an attempt to desecularize the holiday- and has (likely) been in use for a very long time. It originates with the greek letter Chi (Which looks like an english X) and is the first letter of the word christ in greek. Later Constantine added Rho to create the Labarum (chi-rho) symbol which looks like an X and P superimposed.
In other words, X has always been a traditional symbol for Christ, and a such is NOT a means to desecularlize the holiday or "Remove Christ From Christmas".
\not christian
\\wishes christians would stfu about the xmas vs christmas debate
\\\Won't point out that christmas was originally a pagan holiday, because everyone knows that by now.
\\\\hope that clears things up.

Re:Aaargh

[FooAtWFU]

On the contrary, there is a very real Santa [wikipedia.org], it's just that he's widely acknowledged as being dead. His feast day is actually December 6, so it's not quite Christmas, but...

Re:Yes, but does it run[.....]

[meowsqueak]

Google didn't write Google Earth, they acquired it. Give them time and there will be a Linux version (according to a statement they made some months back).