Talk:North American Aerospace Defense Command
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The following from the NORAD in popular culture section strikes me as definitely not having a neutral point of view:
"The movie is often used in support of nuclear disarmament, but is also one of the first movies to shed light on the culture of computer hacking, although it perpetuated a paranoia of hackers based on erroneous facts."
No citations to the claim of the movie Wargames' use in disarmament discussions, to the claim it was one of the first movies to shed light on hacking, or to the claim that the movie change hacker perceptions - and falsely too. If nobody has a problem with it, I think this sentence could be removed. The reference and description of the movie Wargames already included seems to cover the appropriate bases. Thoughts? Comments? --- deleted 7/06/06 Keithh
I live in Colorado Springs, right next to Norad/Cheyenne Mountain, and I have heard rumors that the mountain can open up and has a place for airforce one to land inside. Can anyone shed some light on the validity of this? (unregistered Dave from CoSprings)
An event mentioned in this article is a May 12 selected anniversary
- NORAD comes to public attention at Christmas, when it purports to track Santa Claus on his journey around the world delivering toys for the world's children.
Eh? When did this happen? --Lucky13pjn 02:21, Jul 2, 2004 (UTC)
Every yeah around Christmas, eh. According to http://www.noradsanta.org/ this will be their "fiftieth season tracking Santa". Usually this is something covered on the evening news on Christmas Eve, reporting something along the lines of "NORAD is currently tracking Santa over Ireland. He should be entering Canadian airspace over Newfoundland in three hours."
I just moved NORAD to this page, and created a disambiguation page... While I believe this is the right thing to do, I am at loss as to how to clean up all the references to NORAD all over the place - is there some way to do that automatically? Hou Shuang 03:33, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] The Truth
Yes we do track Santa Claus every Christmas, no we do not fly an "Air Force performance jet" from the Yukon to Mexico City to do this. We can determine Santa's relative position without wasting thousands of pounds of jet fuel. Also Air Force One most definitely cannot land near nor park inside Cheyene Mountain. -Maj Jon Thornton, Alaska NORAD Region
about the stargate reference, there is a broom closet in the facility with a placard "sg1 access"
[edit] What are SAC and PAC?
In the Background and formation section there is a reference to PAC and SAC. "Both times, the PAC properly had their planes (loaded with nuclear bombs) in the air; SAC didn't." Neither term seems to be defined in this article (although SAC is a link) and the relationship between NORAD, SAC and PAC isn't clear.
In addition, does anybody have any citations for the times when we came close to WW III? Hamster128 15:43, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
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- I have never heard of the PAC, but SAC is the Strategic Air Command. They were the predecessors to the Air Combat Command (and possible the Air Space Command)--Kungfu Adam (talk) 16:52, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Pop culture - T3
Wasn't Norad or at least Cheyenne Mountain the place of the finale of T3? Should that be mentioned? -Ron 19:16, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
someone wrote: "In addition to being destroyed in the movie Independence Day (though not shown), Cheyenne Mountain also figured prominently in the film Deep Impact, serving as the place of final refuge from the asteroid which strikes at the end of the film." I'm 99% sure this is incorrect. The site mentioned in the movie as "the Ark" was in limestone caves in Missouri. I don't believe NORAD or Cheyenne Mountain were ever mentioned in Deep Impact (unless they were mentioned in passing when nuclear missiles were launched at the commets). I could be wrong, though. --HenryV1598 20:28, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Images?
Are there no images to be had? (Bjorn Tipling 06:11, 29 July 2006 (UTC))
[edit] scramble / intercept history?
There is some contention (in my perception) as to the history of NORAD intercepting jets over American airspace.
It would be great if someone could fill in something on that. A lot of people want to know. ClintJCL 02:52, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
