Camp Century | The First Human Settlement under The Ice

[@toestub-uk4en]

Back in the old days when art bell was on the air he took live calls from all over the world. I was listening one night when an emergency call from a US base with only about 20-30 personnel. It evolved, with shouting and crashing in the background, that an argument between two people had escalated with the camp divided, physically fighting each other with improvised weapons over an actual barricade of filing cabinets, tables and all that, dividing the base in half. There were multiple physical injuries. They requested emergency peacekeepers and medical evacuations. The saga unfolded over many phone calls if I remember right. I tell you, it was a very interesting night. Looking for any followup to verify the veracity I kept an eye out. Sure enuf, about 2 weeks later there was a brief news item about the Navy having to replace the entire staff of an antarctic base due to unspecified reasons. I tell you, Art Bell was an Original.

[@_robustus_]

I really like the Borg scene 7:00

[@marcmelvin3010]

Nuclear waste? From what? That reactor was sealed, so how would it spread nuclear waste into the ice? Also, I note the repeated references to climate change. The climate has always changed, and periodically it changes faster and more dramatically than other times. Since the advent of the current interglacial period, the Holocene, it has been much warmer at least three times than now, with a green North Africa instead of the Sahara. We are approaching the end of the Holocene, and have a major magnetic polar excursion underway, so dramatic changes in climate are only to be expected, and there is absolutely nothing we can do to delay that.

[@jasonschneider7896]

Out of curiosity... Since the Glacier has been "moving towards the sea" since the 1960's and was one of the reasons the camp was abandoned, has the entire camp moved some way from where it was originally located? Did they have to calculate ice movement to be able to locate its current position so they could go out and study it, or is it sitting in roughly the same spot it was when built?

[@yanchouser7364]

Effectively, it should say in the Ice not beneath or under.

[@curtisnixon5313]

"In case you don't get enough radiation from the reactor we'll be sure to give everyone regular chest X-rays".

[@seanbrazell7095]

The unparalleled and wholly dominate competencies and capabilities in both science and engineering as well as logistics will be a massive advantage in the era of manned exploration, colonization, and exploitation of our solar system in the near and far future for the US.

[@jaime8317]

The sky is blue....keen sense of the obvious 😂

[@jaime8317]

... and of course...."edited" hahaha

[@texrifleman]

Watching these old documentaries shows how significant the impact of the left's policies have been on human progress. We have been stagnate for so many decades.

[@keno77]

I think it was a very interesting project they ran under the ice

[@mack8488]

The temperature is 30° below zero!?...working with bare hands in coveralls....besides its arctic summer....smells like spicing it up...

[@JeffHoldenWS-NC]

Humm... So the ice pack is increasing on top of camp century.. Not what you would expect from a glacier that's shrinking

[@aegismule13]

shhh you'll ruin the narrative

[@rmf9567]

The Americans are truly amazing people

[@danwhitehead4913]

Yup under the ice just like outer space

[@Eric-qo8vv]

Cold weather = more calories.

[@Chris_at_Home]

I worked in the Arctic for many years and we were well fed in the work camps.

[@SuperMika70]

👍

[@pawshands9706]

WTH IS WRONG WITH THE U.S? WOW!

[@iTeerRex]

Everything possible.

[@RustyShackelford65]

The men are to busy figuring out their pronouns and getting their periods.

[@shirleyrice7093]

Nuclear power will never be safe.

[@pawshands9706]

@@shirleyrice7093 I know dear. It's madness

[@iTeerRex]

@@shirleyrice7093 Even if the station was 100% safe, wth are they gonna do with the waste? Leave it to their kids to deal with?

[@leonardodalongisland]

Very cool (pun intended) but a complete waste of money, time, resources and efforts-both the Army's project and the more recent "expedition."

[@Pugggle]

AI garbage

[@naardri]

On the whole the production script and and edited comments could perhaps be considered vulgar and not edited in a manner of professional historian context.

[@rory4656]

Wheres your video