What’s old is new again.
NASA scientists discovered an underground “city” buried 100 feet beneath the ice of Greenland.
Researchers were shocked when their advanced radar technology picked up signs of human construction deep beneath the ice of the island territory’s tundra, according to the space agency.
Camp Century, an abandoned Cold War-era military installation, was rediscovered 100 feet beneath the ice by a NASA Gulfstream III back in April, according to a news release.
“We were looking for the bed of the ice and out pops Camp Century,” said Alex Gardner, a cryospheric scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who helped lead the project. “We didn’t know what it was at first.”
The US Army Corps of Engineers built the massive structure at the behest of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who sought to preserve the use of ground-deployed nuclear missiles as a key part of the nation’s nuclear deterrent policy, according to the Washington Post.
Camp Century was initially drawn up to be three times the size of Denmark (which owns Greenland), sitting at 52,000 square miles (about the size of Louisiana) and outfitted with 2,000 firing positions from which 600 “Iceman missiles” would be launched in the case of nuclear war with the Soviets --- a veritable revolver carved out of ice.
The missiles would be launched through “cut-and-cover” tunnels, carved 28 feet beneath the surface, according to an academic article titled “The Iceman that Never Came.”
Those 600 missiles would have been enough to destroy 80% of US targets in the Soviet Union and Eastern European, the Washington Post reported.
These sweeping military plans were kept secret from the Kingdom of Denmark, which owns Greenland. The US told Danish officials that the project was purely for scientific research purposes. The real motivations behind “Project Iceworm” were revealed in 1997, the Washington Post reports.
Show this to climate tards that think glaciers only grow a few inches a year
Check this out: WWII P-38 Discovered Under 300 Feet of Ice in Greenland The P-38 "Echo" is part of the Lost Squadron of aircraft that were forced to crash land in Greenland during a blizzard.
By Jay BennettPublished: Jul 27, 2018 2:53 PM EDT bookmarksSave Article p-38-lost-squadron.jpgpinterest U.S. Army On July 15, 1942, six P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft and two B-17 Flying Fortress bombers encountered a blizzard while supporting the Allied war effort in the British Isles. The aircraft were forced to conduct an emergency landing on the glaciers of Greenland, and though all the crew members were rescued nine days later, the aircraft were left behind.
Over the decades, the ever-shifting ice sheets of Greenland buried the aircraft, known as the Lost Squadron, under between 250 and 300 feet of ice. Fifty years later, in 1992, one of the P-38s was extracted from the ice and restored to flying condition: the infamous Glacier Girl.
Now, a revitalized search effort led by the non-profit Arctic Hot Point Solutions has discovered another P-38 of the Lost Squadron. Hints of the aircraft were first detected in 2011 as the team combed the area with radar to search for objects under the ice. Earlier this year, the team returned to deploy new ground penetrating radar (GPR) mounted on drones to more efficiently search for the buried WWII warbirds.
Once the P-38 was detected, the search team used a heat probe driven by a hot pressure washer system to tunnel through the ice in an attempt to touch the aircraft and confirm that it was indeed a plane, rather than "a large rock, or a woolly mammoth," according to a recovery team update sent to Popular Mechanics. When the heat probe came up, the team was pleasantly surprised to find it covered in 5606 hydraulic fluid—a surefire sign that the object was one of the missing P-38s.
"We weren't anticipating that," says Jim Salazar, a co-founder of Arctic Hot Point Solutions who has spent years searching Greenland for buried WWII planes. "We pulled the probe back up, and lo and behold it had all that hydraulic fuel all over it."
heat-probe-hydraulic-fluid.jpgpinterest Arctic Hot Point Solutions Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Initially the team didn't know what the thick red substance was, but the group of pilots and aviation enthusiasts didn't need long to discover that it was 5606, a common hydraulic fluid in aircraft. "We pulled it up, and boy it was pretty dense, all over the place—our jackets, on the floor, all over our hands, and it was quite a surprise," Salazar says.
The aircraft has been identified as the P-38 "Echo" piloted by Robert Wilson on that fateful day in 1942. The search team, with support from the governments of Greenland, the United States, and the United Kingdom, plans to return next summer to begin the extraction process of the P-38. Like during the recovery of Glacier Girl, the team will use large heat plates to tunnel down to the aircraft, then send workers down to clear out a cavern around the plane with blasts of hot water. The P-38 will be disassembled and sent up piece by piece.
The find is an exciting piece of history to say the least, but the search doesn't end with the P-38 "Echo." There are still six undiscovered aircraft that are part of the Lost Squadron, and many additional WWII aircraft went down over this same patch of Greenland as they flew between the United States and the European theater.
Just 20 miles or so from the Lost Squadron site, at Koge Bay in Greenland, the team continues to search for their primary target: a Coast Guard Grumman J2F Duck that is believed to still have the remains of three airmen inside. "It is the biggest MIA search in modern history," Salazar says.
*Correction: This article originally stated that there are still four Lost Squadron aircraft that have not been discovered. There are four Lost Squadron P-38s that have not been discovered, as well as two B-17s, for a total of six undiscovered Lost Squadron aircraft. https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/a22575917/wwii-p-38-discovered-under-300-feet-of-ice-in-greenland/
I had forgotten about this. Thanks for the reminder dude
AMAZING story aslan!
Central Greenland Recently Ice-Free, But Why? BY JAKE HEBERT, PH.D. * | MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2024 Share Email Facebook X Pinterest Microfossil willow wood, fungi, insect body parts, and a poppy seed have been recovered from sediments at the bottom of central Greenland’s two-mile-long GISP2 ice core.1,2 This find is similar to an earlier discovery of such fossils found in basal sediments from the Camp Century ice core near Greenland’s northwest coast.3 These microfossils suggest that Greenland once had a tundra-like environment, with grasses but few trees. Because plants cannot grow directly in ice, this find greatly strengthens the argument that much of Greenland was ice-free relatively recently.
Although uniformitarian climate scientists think glaciers were present in Greenland long before the so-called Pleistocene Ice Age, they think it was only at the start of the Pleistocene 2.6 million years ago that the glaciers merged to form a thick ice sheet that covered most of the large island. Because they think the microfossil material is significantly younger than this, perhaps around one million years old,1 they interpret this as evidence that much of the thick Greenland ice sheet melted away fairly recently. They also interpret this as evidence that the Greenland ice sheet is unstable and that global warming could cause a dangerous rise in global sea level.
“This new study confirms and extends that a lot of sea-level rise occurred at a time when causes of warming were not especially extreme,” said Richard Alley, a leading climate scientist at Penn State who reviewed the new research, “providing a warning of what damages we might cause if we continue to warm the climate.”1
This is a classic example of how incorrect beliefs about past climate change can lead to incorrect conclusions about future climate change. Creation scientists agree Greenland was ice-free not that long ago, but the real question is, Why?
The Bible has the answer. About 4,500 years ago, God used a global flood to destroy the world for its wickedness, as described in Genesis 6–9. This global cataclysm, in which catastrophic plate tectonics played a major role,4,5 is the reason the world’s continents are covered with thousands of feet of thick, water-deposited sedimentary rock units—rock units that contain the fossilized remains of trillions of plants and animals. The warm oceans and volcanic aerosols from this tectonic activity provided the necessary conditions for an Ice Age that lasted hundreds of years.6
The Genesis Flood destroyed or uprooted every plant and tree on the planet. However, abundant plant debris and many seeds undoubtedly survived the cataclysm. Trees and shrubs can grow up quickly, but it can take many hundreds of years—perhaps even a millennium—for a thick, canopied forest to grow from naturally-planted seeds. Thus, thick, mature forests were scarce during the Ice Age, even at low latitudes. This fact has long mystified uniformitarian scientists.7–9 It is therefore not surprising that scientists are describing the environment in Greenland at that time as “an entire tundra ecosystem, perhaps with stunted trees.”1 A tundra is defined as a biome in which tree growth is hindered due to very cold temperatures. During the Ice Age, tree growth was hindered, not so much by cold as by the fact that insufficient time had elapsed since the Flood for thick, mature forests to grow. Indeed, Ice Age biomes, almost without exception, are described even in conventional scientific literature as grassy savannahs and tundra with relatively few trees.8
But what about the vast age assignments? The claim that the ice in Greenland melted about one million years ago is coming from beryllium-10 dating of the rocky material at the base of the core. The estimated age depends upon the amount of cosmic ray exposure this rocky material received when it was at the surface. However, creation scientists think many more cosmic rays entered the atmosphere during the Ice Age.10 Uniformitarian scientists failing to take this into account is resulting in greatly inflated age estimates.
Also, Bible critics have long claimed that the deep GISP2 ice core, from which these microfossils were obtained, provides unassailable proof that the earth is more than 6,000 years old.11 However, creation researchers have thoroughly refuted this claim.12,13 Moreover, there is positive evidence that the earth’s thick ice sheets are much younger than uniformitarian scientists claim.14,15
This is another example of how uniformitarian and evolutionary beliefs are needlessly contributing to concerns about climate change.16,17 Not only does the origins debate have enormous spiritual implications for every single person, but it is also greatly relevant to many of today’s scientific and political controversies. https://www.icr.org/article/central-greenland-recently-ice-free/ References
University of Vermont. “Greenland Fossil Discovery Stuns Scientists and Confirms that Center of Ice Sheet Melted in Recent Past.” Phys.org. Posted on phys.org August 5, 2024, accessed August 5, 2024. Bierman, P. R. et al. 2024. “Plant, Insect, and Fungi Fossils under the Center of Greenland’s Ice Sheet Are Evidence of Ice-Free Times.” PNAS. 121 (33): e2407465121. Hebert, J. “Greenland: Ice-Free Not That Long Ago.” Creation Science Update. Posted on ICR.org April 26, 2021, accessed August 8, 2024. Clarey, T. 2019. “Subduction Was Essential for the Ice Age.”Acts & Facts. 48 (3): 9. Hebert, J. “New Evidence for Catastrophic Plate Tectonics (CPT)?” Creation Science Update. Posted on ICR.org July 8, 2024, accessed August 8, 2024. Hebert, J. 2018. “The Bible Best Explains the Ice Age.” Acts & Facts. 47 (11): 10–13. Hebert, J. 2019. “‘Missing’ Ice Age Forests: Evidence for the Flood?” Creation Research Society Quarterly. 56 (1): 48–51. Hebert, J. 2020. “Missing Ice Age Forests Fit Flood/Ice Age Model.” Acts & Facts 49 (6): 16–19. Hebert, J. “African Forest Evidence Fits Flood Ice Age Model.” Creation Science Update. Posted on ICR.org October 28, 2021, accessed August 8, 2024. Oard, M. J. 2021. “Much Greater Cosmic Rays During the Ice Age and Before.” Creation Research Society Quarterly. 58 (1): 30–48. Seely, P. H. 2003. “The GISP2 Ice Core: Ultimate Proof that Noah’s Flood Was Not Global.” Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith. 55 (4): 252–260. Oard, M. J. The Frozen Record. Santee, CA: Institute for Creation Research. Hebert, J. 2014. “Ice Cores, Seafloor Sediments, and the Age of the Earth, Part 2.” Acts & Facts. 43 (7): 12–14. Hebert, J. 2019. “Earth’s Thick Ice Sheets are Young.” Acts & Facts. 48 (2): 11–14. Hebert, J. 2022. “ICR Ice Core Research Continues.” Acts & Facts. 51 (1): 10–13. Hebert, J. 2019. “Climate Alarmism and the Age of the Earth.” Acts & Facts. 48 (4): 11–14. Hebert, J. 2021. The Ice Age and Climate Change: A Creation Perspective. Dallas, TX: Institute for Creation Research. Stage image: central-western Greenland Stage image credit: Copyright © Algkalv, CC BY-3.0. Used in accordance with federal copyright (fair use doctrine) law. Usage by ICR does not imply endorsement of copyright holder.
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Oh please do. Repeatedly.