加载中…圣诞老人现在究竟在哪里？与北美防空司令部一起追踪
(2015-12-21 15:25:50) 寻找圣诞老人的行踪是北美防空司令部（North American Aerospace Defense Command，简称NORAD）工作人员在12月24日这天的使命之一。
这个传统起源于1955年圣诞节前的一个偶然事件。当时，一家报纸印错了百货公司刊登的圣诞老人广告电话号码。打这个号码的孩子们都被接到大陆防空司令部（Continental Air Defense Command）——即北美防空司令部前身——的行动热线电话。接线员尽力满足了这些最早来这里寻找圣诞老人的孩子们的提问，而一个传统也由此诞生。
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如今，在圣诞节来临前，北美防空司令部在24小时内会接到多达11万7千个寻问圣诞老人行踪的电话——大约每小时5000个。北美防空司令部的数百名工作人员、家属和朋友，志愿拿出自己的时间接电话，他们甚至还能用汉语、西班牙语、荷兰语和其他多种语言回答询问。
在美国以外，对圣诞老人行踪最感兴趣的国家要属日本、德国和西班牙。但北美防空司令部表示，他们接到的孩子打来的电话来自全球四面八方，包括从保加利亚、斐济和冈比亚，等等。
圣诞老人跟进技术发展
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无论圣诞老人是飞经埃及的金字塔还是中国的长城，北美防空司令部称，它所用的“圣诞实时相机”（“Santa cams” ）和最尖端的太空红外跟踪系统，可以自动追寻驯鹿鲁道夫（Rudolph）的红鼻子上发出的频率。
对想要步步追寻圣诞老人行踪的人，北美防空司令部在网上准备了相关的应用程序和社交媒体帐号。网址是：NORAD’s Santa tracker site。对希望以传统方式询问圣诞老人行踪的人，请拨打以下电话：011-1-877-HI-NORAD (即011-1-877-44-66723)。
遗憾的是，圣诞老人不能来对这个消息发表评论。
Tracking Santa Claus is part of a day’s work for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) workers on December 24.
The tradition came about accidentally in 1955 when a newspaper misprinted Santa’s telephone number in a department store advertisement. Instead of catching the big guy at the store, kids reached the operations hotline for the Continental Air Defense Command, a precursor to NORAD. The operators obliged those first inquiries on Santa’s location, and a tradition was born.
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Today, NORAD receives upwards of 117,000 calls in the 24-hour period of tracking Santa’s route — about 5,000 calls an hour. Hundreds of NORAD workers, family and friends volunteer their time to handle the calls. What’s more, they can respond to callers in Chinese, Spanish, Dutch and other languages.
Outside of the U.S., people with the most interest in Santa’s whereabouts are in Japan, Germany and Spain. But NORAD says kids call them from every pocket of the globe, including Bulgaria, Fiji and The Gambia.
Santa goes techie
https://share.america.gov/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/AP8927150119391.jpg(© AP Images)Whether Santa is flying over the Egyptian pyramids or the Great Wall of China, NORAD uses “Santa cams” and state-of-the-art space-based infrared tracking systems that they say can home in on a frequency from Rudolph’s red nose.
For people
needing to keep tabs on Santa’s every move, NORAD has it covered
through apps and social media accounts
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Unfortunately, Santa wasn’t available to comment for this story.
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