For those of you that actually know me and don’t just lurk on my blog, you know that one of my favorite movies is Wargames (and the Karate Kid, damn you Will Smith!). Anyway, a few nights ago, I couldn’t sleep, so I started watching some news video on Yahoo! News and stumbled upon this story (sorry if the video is no longer there). Interesting story about a Russian space rocket part landing in Canada. At around the 0:50 point in the story, the reporter talks about a conversation he had with NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command). There’s a representative image of NORAD on the left of the video screen.
Whoa.
That looks an awful lot like what I remembered from Wargames. Here’s a screengrab from the NORAD set of Wargames from Wikipedia.
Despite the $1m cost of the Wargames NORAD set (according to the Wikipedia entry), it really looks nothing like the real thing, according to the NORAD website’s image gallery. Here are a few samples.
And I thought I only liked the CBC for Hockey Night in Canada…
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