Sep 9, 2024 04:20 PM
(This post was last modified: Sep 9, 2024 05:54 PM by C C.)
Back in 2019, the Establishment (and much of the world) mocked Trump for his "bizarre or insane" idea of trying to buy Greenland from Denmark. In fact, the US has explored purchasing Greenland multiple times throughout part of its history. In that light, he was actually instantiating an irregular norm that keeps poking up (futile as it is with respect to Denmark ever budging).
Proposals for the United States to purchase Greenland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposals_..._Greenland
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Camp Century - The Hidden City Beneath the Ice
https://youtu.be/EBeyA010HIg
VIDEO EXCERPT: Greenland, 1959. Close to the North Pole. Heavy loads crawl across the ice at two miles an hour. The United States wants to transform this icy wasteland into a nuclear fortress and station their missiles here. No matter the cost.
The U.S. government offered to buy Greenland from Denmark. And that happened just after World War II. The price tag was 100 million U.S. dollars in gold.
[narrator] Two hundred soldiers will live in this city beneath the ice. The Cold War is heating up, and the U.S. wants to show the Soviets just what its military is capable of. But the underground settlement is merely cover for a far crazier and top-secret American military project... (video at bottom)
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The golden age of offbeat Arctic research (photos)
https://undark.org/2024/09/06/wilo-golde...-research/
INTRO: In recent years, the Arctic has become a magnet for climate change anxiety, with scientists nervously monitoring the Greenland ice sheet for signs of melting and fretting over rampant environmental degradation. It wasn’t always that way.
At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, as the fear of nuclear Armageddon hung over American and Soviet citizens, idealistic scientists and engineers saw the vast Arctic region as a place of unlimited potential for creating a bold new future. Greenland emerged as the most tantalizing proving ground for their research.
Scientists and engineers working for and with the U.S. military cooked up a rash of audacious cold-region projects — some innovative, many spit-balled, and most quickly abandoned. They were the stuff of science fiction: disposing of nuclear waste by letting it melt through the ice; moving people, supplies, and missiles below the ice using subways, some perhaps atomic powered; testing hovercraft to zip over impassable crevasses; making furniture from a frozen mix of ice and soil; and even building a nuclear-powered city under the ice sheet.
Today, many of their ideas, and the fever dreams that spawned them, survive only in the yellowed pages and covers of magazines like “REAL: the exciting magazine FOR MEN” and dozens of obscure Army technical reports... (MORE - details)
Camp Century - The Hidden City Beneath the Ice
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/EBeyA010HIg
Proposals for the United States to purchase Greenland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposals_..._Greenland
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Camp Century - The Hidden City Beneath the Ice
https://youtu.be/EBeyA010HIg
VIDEO EXCERPT: Greenland, 1959. Close to the North Pole. Heavy loads crawl across the ice at two miles an hour. The United States wants to transform this icy wasteland into a nuclear fortress and station their missiles here. No matter the cost.
The U.S. government offered to buy Greenland from Denmark. And that happened just after World War II. The price tag was 100 million U.S. dollars in gold.
[narrator] Two hundred soldiers will live in this city beneath the ice. The Cold War is heating up, and the U.S. wants to show the Soviets just what its military is capable of. But the underground settlement is merely cover for a far crazier and top-secret American military project... (video at bottom)
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The golden age of offbeat Arctic research (photos)
https://undark.org/2024/09/06/wilo-golde...-research/
INTRO: In recent years, the Arctic has become a magnet for climate change anxiety, with scientists nervously monitoring the Greenland ice sheet for signs of melting and fretting over rampant environmental degradation. It wasn’t always that way.
At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, as the fear of nuclear Armageddon hung over American and Soviet citizens, idealistic scientists and engineers saw the vast Arctic region as a place of unlimited potential for creating a bold new future. Greenland emerged as the most tantalizing proving ground for their research.
Scientists and engineers working for and with the U.S. military cooked up a rash of audacious cold-region projects — some innovative, many spit-balled, and most quickly abandoned. They were the stuff of science fiction: disposing of nuclear waste by letting it melt through the ice; moving people, supplies, and missiles below the ice using subways, some perhaps atomic powered; testing hovercraft to zip over impassable crevasses; making furniture from a frozen mix of ice and soil; and even building a nuclear-powered city under the ice sheet.
Today, many of their ideas, and the fever dreams that spawned them, survive only in the yellowed pages and covers of magazines like “REAL: the exciting magazine FOR MEN” and dozens of obscure Army technical reports... (MORE - details)
Camp Century - The Hidden City Beneath the Ice