Camp Century- the giant 1960's US Army base in Greenland

[Northstar1989]

I recently stumbled across a Youtube video on "Camp Century", a US Army under-ice base constructed in Greenland in 1960 to test techniques for arctic/polar construction of nuclear missile silos:

Camp Century was in operation from 1960-1966, before being abandoned due to instability of the ice sheets...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Iceworm

Here's an article on it NOT from Wikipedia:

http://defensetech.org/2012/04/06/inside-the-armys-secret-cold-war-ice-base/

It was preceded by Camp Fistclench before it, built in 1957:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Fistclench

Aside from being utterly-awesome, and very reminiscent of the Rebel base on Hoth in Star Wars, it also occurred to me that it could teach us some useful lessons for someday setting up a subsurface base on the Moon...

Admittedly, the Moon would be a LOT more challenging of an environment, and astronauts/robots would have a lot less mass in equipment/supplies to work with (any serious effort would probably need to be preceded by much cheaper access to space), but it's still interesting nonetheless...

What do you guys think?

Regards,

Northstar