Posted by Dr. Science on 07/18/2014 in
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How does Santa Claus know if you’ve been bad or good? Does he use surveillance equipment? If so, can it be jammed?
———- from Flannery McAlber & Molly Allison-Baker of on behalf of all the kids in the USA
As far as I’ve been able to tell, kids, Santa uses the standard maritime band of 15 to 40 meters. The signals are usually single sideband in nature, and if reception is bad on either band, due to sunspots or an arctic storm, he may drop all the way to 160 meters. But there he’s competing with the Navy’s submarines in their VLF range. Most of Santa’s transmissions have to do with specific instructions to his reindeer and messages back to his elves at home base at the North Pole. Santa respects our rights as citizens and would never illegally eavesdrop on a child – no matter how good or bad the child may be, unless he got permission from the Attorney General, and I doubt that many kids behave badly enough to elicit such a response from the Judiciary Branch. If you receive a lump of coal, demand an independent counsel.