The arctic polar ice is a strategic geopolitical territory heavily monitored by the US, Russia, China, and other major powers. Defining territory in this region is a complicated process and permanent settlements above the artic circle give legitimacy to different country’s claims.
By acknowledging a permanent european settlement with a consistent location at the north pole, NORAD would be legitimizing claims from a number of different countries who could claim that toy making elves are their citizens / culture. Russia and non-aligned nations ( sweden and finland) have legitimate claims to the citizens of santa’s workshop, giving them a serious advantage in claims to polar territory and north sea oil claims. St. Nicholas is claimed by the greeks and turks, and nobody wants a new player in the artic.
Also, santa’s workshop is an unaligned territory maintained by an entity with vastly superior technological capabilities, possessing an annual report of ethical violations for everyone on the planet. Pissing santa off is, at minimum, politically inconvenient, and at worst, an existential strategic threat.
So if santa doesnt want anyone to know where he is, nobody will know.
NORAD’s satellite surveillance is state-of-the-art, but it only covers North America. Since the closest city to the North Pole is in Europe (Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway), NORAD loses sight of him on his way home.
Technically, NORAD is guessing his approximate location based on current and past reports. His actual location is a well-guarded secret. Also, his workshop moves. That's why magnetic north isn't the same as "true" north.
Santa has the reindeer fly below radar until he’s at least 500 miles south of his workshop. They tried to follow him back with a U1 Spy Plan back in the 50’s.
And yes Calvin, I know you’ve never heard of the U1. It was the only one and never heard from again.
Son, I think you are old enough now to finally know the truth about Santa. His workshop isn't a secret, nor is it hiding somewhere on the North Pole, but is in fact a modest warehouse located in downtown Jakarta. That's because it's relatively close to where Santa spends most of his time during the year: his Bali beach retreat.
The north pole has a strong magnetic field - thats why all compasses point north. So once they get there, they have no clue where they are, because whichever direction they face, the compass needle points the other way. They know he lives at the north pole. But where is the north pole? The closer you get, the harder it is to find. And thats why they can’t find him.
Santa's workshop is in the north pole. Most monitors don't display the entire image: they crop a few pixels from the top and the bottom of the screen. Since Santa lives at the northern most point of the map, his workshop would be under the section of the map that gets cropped off.
It's probably for the best they cut it off. They use the Mercator map projection at NORAD, so if it showed up on screen it would look stupidly big. Bigger than it is
There are gaps in the radar coverage, and Santa secretly works for norad to show where those gaps are. That's why he only travels the world once a year, and has the elves making the toys. The rest of the year he's updating the air force on all the areas that they don't know about, and hoping they listen.
In 1909, Peary and Henson completed an expedition to the North Pole and found Santa's Workshop. Peary had been specially empowered by the US government to sign a treaty with Santa. Santa agrees not to give weapons as presents to groups working to bring down the government; and in exchange, the US makes any knowledge of his workshop and what goes on there a deeply secured state secret. It's all very need-to-know stuff.
Nobody's 100% sure, but we suspect the fat man has made similar deals at various times with the Soviet Union, Finland, and a few other countries.
North Pole border security enforcement is very brutal, they shoot on sight. No one dares enter North Pole airspace uninvited, they'll get put on the naughty list after their aircraft is fired upon by several SAM installations.
They can only pick him up when he reaches crusing speed. Down closer to the ground there is no ground radar system for miles that catches him taking off. So we can only narrow it down to 'the North Pole'. Even with the best radar the US and Canada have. Maybe if Russia joined in, someone should ask about that. Does anyone have a connection.
There is also a concern about being put on the naughty list if the exact location is given away.
They already know, it's just ultra-classified top secret information.
Many have attempted to locate that workshop. None have returned. Elf security is brutal.
That's the worst kept secret since Area 51 -- It's at the North Pole.
Mostly secret due to the public health risks from all the toxic coal ash. It's the world's largest coal-fired power plant.
The arctic polar ice is a strategic geopolitical territory heavily monitored by the US, Russia, China, and other major powers. Defining territory in this region is a complicated process and permanent settlements above the artic circle give legitimacy to different country’s claims.
By acknowledging a permanent european settlement with a consistent location at the north pole, NORAD would be legitimizing claims from a number of different countries who could claim that toy making elves are their citizens / culture. Russia and non-aligned nations ( sweden and finland) have legitimate claims to the citizens of santa’s workshop, giving them a serious advantage in claims to polar territory and north sea oil claims. St. Nicholas is claimed by the greeks and turks, and nobody wants a new player in the artic.
Also, santa’s workshop is an unaligned territory maintained by an entity with vastly superior technological capabilities, possessing an annual report of ethical violations for everyone on the planet. Pissing santa off is, at minimum, politically inconvenient, and at worst, an existential strategic threat.
So if santa doesnt want anyone to know where he is, nobody will know.
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That was chef's kiss.
NORAD’s satellite surveillance is state-of-the-art, but it only covers North America. Since the closest city to the North Pole is in Europe (Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway), NORAD loses sight of him on his way home.
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Technically, NORAD is guessing his approximate location based on current and past reports. His actual location is a well-guarded secret. Also, his workshop moves. That's why magnetic north isn't the same as "true" north.
Santa has the reindeer fly below radar until he’s at least 500 miles south of his workshop. They tried to follow him back with a U1 Spy Plan back in the 50’s.
And yes Calvin, I know you’ve never heard of the U1. It was the only one and never heard from again.
Son, I think you are old enough now to finally know the truth about Santa. His workshop isn't a secret, nor is it hiding somewhere on the North Pole, but is in fact a modest warehouse located in downtown Jakarta. That's because it's relatively close to where Santa spends most of his time during the year: his Bali beach retreat.
The north pole has a strong magnetic field - thats why all compasses point north. So once they get there, they have no clue where they are, because whichever direction they face, the compass needle points the other way. They know he lives at the north pole. But where is the north pole? The closer you get, the harder it is to find. And thats why they can’t find him.
Just because they didn't tell you doesn't mean they haven't found it.
Work harder to be worthy.
Your sister found it, and look what happened to her.
It’s in the North Pole. We knew that since we were kids. Why would we need to bring a satellite into this?
NORAD can track Santa because Santa lets them. The Workshop is where he draws the line.
Santa's workshop is in the north pole. Most monitors don't display the entire image: they crop a few pixels from the top and the bottom of the screen. Since Santa lives at the northern most point of the map, his workshop would be under the section of the map that gets cropped off.
It's probably for the best they cut it off. They use the Mercator map projection at NORAD, so if it showed up on screen it would look stupidly big. Bigger than it is
There are gaps in the radar coverage, and Santa secretly works for norad to show where those gaps are. That's why he only travels the world once a year, and has the elves making the toys. The rest of the year he's updating the air force on all the areas that they don't know about, and hoping they listen.
The Canadians are hiding something.
I bet if someone found the aforementioned workshop they'd have a blurry photo of it as evidence.
It’s protected by a big glass dome.
In 1909, Peary and Henson completed an expedition to the North Pole and found Santa's Workshop. Peary had been specially empowered by the US government to sign a treaty with Santa. Santa agrees not to give weapons as presents to groups working to bring down the government; and in exchange, the US makes any knowledge of his workshop and what goes on there a deeply secured state secret. It's all very need-to-know stuff.
Nobody's 100% sure, but we suspect the fat man has made similar deals at various times with the Soviet Union, Finland, and a few other countries.
Santa doesn't get enough altitude to be tracked by NORAD until he's miles away from his workshop.
Santa doesn't actually have a workshop. It's all A I photos.
Santa orders everything off Amazon, Temu, and Etsy. Even reindeer food comes from Chewy
Ground clutter son, radar only sees the sky.
North Pole border security enforcement is very brutal, they shoot on sight. No one dares enter North Pole airspace uninvited, they'll get put on the naughty list after their aircraft is fired upon by several SAM installations.
They can only pick him up when he reaches crusing speed. Down closer to the ground there is no ground radar system for miles that catches him taking off. So we can only narrow it down to 'the North Pole'. Even with the best radar the US and Canada have. Maybe if Russia joined in, someone should ask about that. Does anyone have a connection.
There is also a concern about being put on the naughty list if the exact location is given away.
They have and Trump had it bombed. He thought the elves were smuggling fentanyl in sacks of toys to the US