As previously noted, I'm a Geek. Big GEEK! On top of that, I'm a SciFi Geek. In that vein, from Gateworld, a site mostly dedicated to the Stargate movie and television franchise, comes this article about the closing of the Cheyenne Mountain Complex in Colorado.
Cheyenne Mountain is the home to NORAD and the US Northern Command but due to overlap with Peterson Air Force Base and the costs included with upgrading the underground facility to meet post-9/11 security concerns, the Air Forces has chosen to shutter the facility. They will however keep minimal personnel there for one year after the closing "just in case" the need to re-open it should arise.
Cheyenne Mountain is also the fictional (??) home of the US Stargate program and its entrance has been throughly seen in the Big Screen Movie, 10 (yes 10!) years of Stargate:SG1, for the past 3 seasons of Stargate:Atlantis and oddly a cartoon version of the series.
Not only that, but NORAD (and its predecessor, CONAD) has been the official US tracking station of the Jolly Fat Man (not you Chris, although the name seems eerily similar) on Christmas Eve for the past 50 years. More info can be found here at the Santa Tracking Site.
Great, another government program sold to the private sector. Now we will probably have to pay to get a fix on Rudolph.
Cheyenne Mountain is the home to NORAD and the US Northern Command but due to overlap with Peterson Air Force Base and the costs included with upgrading the underground facility to meet post-9/11 security concerns, the Air Forces has chosen to shutter the facility. They will however keep minimal personnel there for one year after the closing "just in case" the need to re-open it should arise.
Cheyenne Mountain is also the fictional (??) home of the US Stargate program and its entrance has been throughly seen in the Big Screen Movie, 10 (yes 10!) years of Stargate:SG1, for the past 3 seasons of Stargate:Atlantis and oddly a cartoon version of the series.
Not only that, but NORAD (and its predecessor, CONAD) has been the official US tracking station of the Jolly Fat Man (not you Chris, although the name seems eerily similar) on Christmas Eve for the past 50 years. More info can be found here at the Santa Tracking Site.
Great, another government program sold to the private sector. Now we will probably have to pay to get a fix on Rudolph.
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