Regarding use of the word "Eskimo" in this video: We are now aware, thanks to many polite comments from our audience, that this is viewed as a derogatory term among many native peoples of Canada, as well as in some Arctic regions. Several of our references centered on Alaskan natives, among whom this term is more commonly accepted. Additionally, we used the term in reference to native languages, which are more commonly referred to as Eskimo or Eskimo-Inuit, and not the people, but we should have been more clear and sought out another term. We apologize to those we offended, and have learned a lot. We'll do better in the future, as we always aim to do.
It's amazing how survival and hunger can push the boundaries of human innovation. Building a house out of SNOW and surviving in some of the most harshest climates on Earth is pure genius and madness! Hats off to the Eskimos man...it's a way of life out there.
@sebas Stein viu só Deus é bless ele TBM tem que cumprir sua missão e dar por encerrado. Ele disse eu sou o Alfa e o Omega.o princípio e o fim. Tudo and 🙂🤳🌍 Como ele quer . Quem e o Homem para dirigir o seus passos .pois Deus conhece todos eles .
In the military we did a field operation for a month in the mountains during winter and it got to -30f some nights, well one of those nights was survival night. We got dropped off in pairs with minimal food, water, or clothing. Basically just you your partner and a shovel and you had to be as comfortable as possible for about 12 hours over night. The only person who managed not to get frost bite or be extremely cold was someone who found a hill and dug out a whole cave to sleep in. You would go in there and start sweating it was pretty cool
it always felt natural to me to know that isolated structures of snow is kind of warm, ive played so much in the snow (I live in the north of quebec it snows 6 - 7 months a year and it always felt somewhat warm when we'd build tunnels and mini size igloo and stuff
I wonder if this might have helped some of the UN Coalition soldiers during the Korean War (the winter on the peninsula was incredibly brutal in 1950, with some US servicemen measuring like 50 degees Fahrenheit below zero). At Chosin Resevoir and other areas, frostbite became a serious problem and there's footage of guys sleeping in blankets under thin layers of snow (unsure if the cloth tents weren't working or what, but maybe it wasn't making much of a difference). I wonder if makeshift igloos might have worked better in their camps. At least frostbite would have hurt them less.
@@thunderbird1921 not sure if youre ever gonna see this reply from the future, but i can speak from experience that those tents make very little difference. they are supposedly all weather, but in the cold, its freaking cold XD. The sleeping bags are what kept us all warm, but in order for them to work at peak efficiency in the cold, youd have to be in your underwear or naked, with your clothes inside the second most inner layer so you dont sweat on them making them cold and wet, and they can stay somewhat warm with your body heat. source: was a soldier for 5 years and lived through some harsh winters lol
My dad taught me how to build one, though it was pretty rough. The ones our ancestors and some of our elders would build were carved and shaped to be surprisingly smooth. Building it this way was better for keeping it warm and nicer to look at. And also, Inuit had a qulliq, a traditional stove fueled by seal blubber to help keep the igloo warm during the night.
In my chemistry class when we found out there is no such thing as cold, throughout anytime it was freezing outside we would say “damn it’s less hot outside”
I remember making fairly sizable igloos in the Midwest as a kid. We would make them with five gallon buckets with packed snow. My dog and I spent many nights in these snow buildings/rooms, and always stayed nice and warm with a comfortable coat and insulated undergarments. I’ll never forget those wonderful memories. Never got cold in there, and used my German Shepard as a pillow.
so as a Canadian who grew up learning about this. polar bears did it first. they dig holes in snow banks. the Inuit copied it. snow and ice are very good insulators because when it gets cold enough, stuff starts repelling heat. several people huddled in a small space where all the heat is reflected back into the space, is quite cozy.
Simply: Air is a good insulator and the traped air in the snow work as a barrier and tends to keep the inside temperature at the temperature where water turns into snow/Ice. So the zero degree C inside an iglo would be a heaven when the outer air temp is minus40.
I just wrote up there ^^ about working construction in the winter. My favourite was when it was -10 C because it was cold enough that everything stayed frozen. You could brush the snow off the lumber and your clothes, gloves, etc without it melting. 0 to - 5 C was the worst because you'd get soaked. At -10 while working, you could strip down to a sweater and insulated overalls and be perfectly comfortable. I had a coworker whose new work coat he paid $300 for "broke". It got wet, then the sun went down and it froze so when he bent his elbow it cracked......
As a veteran mountaineer who has slept in his share of snow caves, when it's -20F outside and a balmy 32F inside, it seems like the tropics. I've gone climbing without a bivy or tent, just a shovel and sleeping bag is all you need.
I’ve been winter mountain camping where we built igloos to sleep in. It’s amazing the temperature difference as you crawl inside. The tunnel in below the platform inside is pretty close to outside temp, for us about 0 degrees F. Once two of us were inside the temp was about 78 degrees F to point of sweating inside. They’re incredibly strong structures as well. We had to dig down a significant depth to find hard enough packed snow to cut blocks. So our igloo was essentially built into a pit for extra wind protection, with a sort of dug in patio area outside. The first night we had heavy snowfall that filled in around the igloo and the pit it was in. The top of the igloo was basically at ground level and completely covered with new snow. We literally built a 2nd igloo on top of it and cut a hole between them to have a two story igloo. When we left it took sledge hammers and a couple hours to knock them down.
@@DugrozReports They can become a hazard for future hikers. Particularly if they get completely covered in new snow they could collapse and injure someone. Generally you attempt to leave no trace, which includes taking down temporary structures.
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A good layer of snow is what keeps most water mains from freezing and bursting during winter. Hence hope for lots of snowfall to keep the frost from penetrating to the pipes.
Inuits have just as many words for snow as we do, because their language allows for many compound words. We say, "don't eat the yellow snow", they say "don't eat the yellowsnow".
"wanna study for tomorrow's exam?" "Meh" "Hey wanna know why people build igloo on the other side of the world where you're never gonna go" "Hell yeah"
The fastest, easiest and best way to keep yourself warm and protect yourself from the weather is just to dig in The snow. Dig down, find a hill and dig side ways into the snow. Its alot faster and easier. Dig a hole and when The weather clears either get going or make a proper shelther (wouldent bet on making a igloo since its quite hard to make it right and very tireing but it is possible) where you can try and make a fire or Light your "portable kitchen" (dont know what its called in english 😂)
Just so you know, the word igloo is actually the Inuktitut (Inuit language) word for house, so it doesn't only refer to a snow house. A permanent wood or brick dwelling would also be called an igloo in Inuktitut.
Words mean different in different languages bruh. Maybe natives of polar regions used that language and so they names their only known home (for them) igloo.
When I was a kid I use to build an igloo in the backyard when we would get a heavy snowfall. I found out if you would light a candle and leave it in there it will create a hard layer of ice. Believe it or not you are so much warmer in that igloo than you are outside of it. No wind and quiet.
Real igloos have skins and furs placed on the inside. Within the the furs it reaches a comfortable temperature, and the gap between the firs and the snow prevent it from fully melting.
This actually all makes sense to me because when i was a kid, i used to play in a foot of snow with a ton of clothes on. However, when I would “bury” myself in the snow and just lay down in it, I noticed I was actually getting warmer despite being covered in snow. Strange phenomenon
Another great feature of igloos (or igluit in Inuktitut (I think)) is that they create their own mortar/insulation. There's a temperature gradient from the inside (let's say 20C) to the outside (let's say -50C). Somewhere in between, inside the wall, the temperature will reach 0C and at that point any melting snow's water will turn to ice. That will then bind the snow blocks together, seal up any holes or cracks and provide the mortar for the igloo.
First day might be pretty cold but second, third day will be better because all the little seams will be glazed over with ice. It still won't be toasty warm as some say. There is no wind inside the igloo.
Well, the temperature difference between inside and outside makes all the difference for sure. Though i have no experience with igloos, i only have some with tents. On one of my camps i was - 12 °C outside during the night, but i could raise the temperature inside my tent to about + 5 °C by using some candles. Just enough to sleep well under my blankets and wash and dress me in the morning. And when i returned to my flat, i was so used to the cold, i was actually sweating though there was only about + 10 °C in my rooms !🤣👍🏼
Manny Kudlak Some people are naturally fatter than others though, I don't mean to say they favoured obese women. I can't imagine there were any obese inuits prior to industrialisation reaching them, their diet hardly allowed for that.
I was stationed in Alaska, Fort Wainwright, for four plus years in the eighties and we had to go to arctic survival school if we were aircrewman and pilots. We learned how to build a shelter using pine tree boughs and snow. Room for only one! Dang thing kept us warm enough at 30 below to sleep comfortably.
1:04 Actually, they're not really words, it's just a product of how the language works that means if you want to describe an object, then the description of the object goes withing what we would consider a word: ruclips.net/video/xW4hI_METac/видео.html
Your definition is one very specific way of looking at "words", and it is not the only definition. It is without question that Eskimo-Aleut languages have an extensive vocabulary for snow, and what I said in the video should not be controversial. What *is* controversial, tracing back to Boas, is whether that extensive vocabulary is significant to their cultural relationship with their environment, or in any way different than how we all relate to our environment using language. That… is an ongoing question (and one that I didn't talk about on purpose)
@It's Okay To Be Smart, Hi at 4:37 you mentioned that, "...the body heat melts the innermost layer thus strengthening the wall..." and that having another warm body will get warmer faster. My question is, regardless of having 1 or more bodies, will the igloo eventually melt and cause holes in the igloo? Or will the outside cold never let that happen? You never mentioned these. Thanks in advance!
Ya... but it is undeniably misleading to say "Eskimo languages really do have dozens and dozens of different words for snow because there are a lot of different types." It's actually mostly because it's a polysynthetic language... it is only in small part because there are a lot of different types of snow. There are dozens and dozens of words for many common nouns, snow isn't special in that regard. What we would express using a noun-phrase, they express using a unique "word" built up of a root with descriptive affixes. So I'll repeat, it is because of the nature of the language, not the uniqueness of snow. I'm only commenting, though, because I think you know that, and I think it is unfortunate that you, who purport to be a reliable source of information would be misleading for the sake of convenient narration.
look up what a 'Agglutinative' language means. 'words' dont apply in that area. A whole sentence is one 'word' with a root word and then around 7 suffixes. The only additional 'words' usually used are subjects, like a person or self-reference. You need to actually learn and research versus vomiting things up that you browsed a bit. tl:dr - it's not 50 different words for snow, it's one word (snow) with differing combinations of the suffixes in relation to that snow. Language rules towards something like english do not apply to a language like Inuktitut or other Inuk languages.
Not really wanting to start a heating argument with anyone, but Eskimo languages are agglutinative, meaning you glue words together to make a sentence or phrase. German is similar, but not the same. Eskimo languages glue their word for snow and add more information to the front and/or ends of the base to create a new word with more information. I'm not sure you would consider this a new word technically, but if so, they do have multiple words for snow.
Linguists hate when people bring up the Inuit example to suggest that culture shapes language. We have several words for "frozen water" in English as well (ice, sleet, hail, snow, slush, floe, iceberg, etc). But yeah, most people don't even know what agglutinative even means. I've tried explaining the different types of synthetic and analytic language characteristics to my dad, and he didn't get it. lol idk how that's relevant but i'm high af right now
Mihaly I'm not a linguist, but I would guess that you are onto something there. However, compared to Eskimo languages and even German, English is non-agglutinative for the most part.
most languages have some kind of agglutination going on, but some synthetic languages use it as a primary means of morphology, and thus are called "agglutinative languages". English is kind of a synthetic language, although it seems to be drifting into a more analytic direction. I'm not even sure what english would be classified as, but it's certainly not the poster-child for the agglutinative group
I remember during the winter months living in New England, collecting all of the snow that built up on the porch and making a packed-snow-hut to go outside and hotbox in XD I'd learned nearly all of this information during the "prep time" for that little project... but any excuse to LEARN is always appreciated, even if it's just minutia about otter biology XD
@@daisychain3007 the cold air flows down and the warm air stays up. cold air does enter but since the cold air is below and you are above you dont feel the warmth leave you
I remember watching a Magic School Bus about this: Basically ice/snow is always 32oF or close to it for whatever reason, so the interior of the igloo stays slightly above, so while it's not necessarily warm, it's a LOT warmer than the sub zero temps outside, and with the proper clothing you can even stay comfortable.
in New Jersey we would get three months of snow probably around 6 feet. All the kids made igloos. our friend made a triple one with a big one in the middle. The coolest thing I’ve ever seen. They’re actually quite comfortable. If your clothes are dry and you put some thing on the ground, you can actually hang out for quite a while we used to do mean things to each other, though we used to take usually coffee, grinds and spaghetti and throw it inside each other’s igloo walls as a prank. You always knew what somebody had the night before for dinner.
from somebody who was born and raised in florida then raised a bit more in a northern state and brought back to florida, I can give you maybe 100 reasons why not to live in florida
@Chem from the Shed Bruh, do some research before you comment nonsense and look like an idiot. Diamond is an excellent conductor of heat but an insulator of electricity. They are NOT the same concepts🤦♂️
@Screw youtube He thinks the air gaps in snow explains why it isn't conductive. In truth it's the purity of the water that makes it poorly conductive. And also there's no rule that an electrical insulator will be good at preventing the movement of heat.
Me, my sisters and father actually succeeded in making a fully functional igloo, when I was young. We packed snow into, what I believe was a milk box or something, shaping the blocks. It was really neat to sit inside. I have some old photos of it. Even one where spring came and gradually melted the dome... then we got permission to climb on top to make the whole thing cave in!
I was telling my wife about a similar thing the other day. When a hard freeze is coming, farmers will saturate their crops with water. Ice then builds up on the crops creating an insulator, which in turn, protects the crops.
@@ebogar42 i honestly don't know for sure. Maybe the thickness creates a layer of insulation? In Florida, strawberry and orange farmers do it every winter though.
Most likely since the plants are saturated with water the ice forms on the surface. But with a frost, ice will form inside of the plant, which will kill the plant. The idea is to get ice to form outside of the plant cells instead of inside the plant cells as that can cause the cells to burst and die.
Thecrazeecow kind of like when I tell people I'm from New York State, they think I grew up in the city. Most don't get NY is mostly rural. Or when its cold here in TN, they say, "You're from NY, you should be used to this." Who gets used to freezing? RITE?!
Man, i had the phone blacked out listening to a playlist and ilas soon as heard this man utter the words "you might even say, its ice cold" i knew what reference he was making. Just as i hear "YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH" in my mind, i hear him play it. This has brung a smile to my face and i thank you kindly sir.
Angelo Szucs Mauve and Taupe first came to mind, then theres Copper, Cinnamon, Bronze, Natural, Nude, Lustre, Autumn, Bark, Dayglo, Shimmer, Tan, Tannier, Tanniest...and these are just off the top of my head. i did not need to google any of these i just remembered from old girlfriends wierd named makeup products
I arrived from watching some guys building a to scale model of the Solar System in the desert.Damned thing needed 7 miles of clear ground if the Earth was the size of a marble!😮
Very interesting fact about keeping warm. Deer and moose in the forest for example will crouch down and let the snow fall on top of them with their body heat a type of enclosure of snow will form over them. Their body heat against the snow enclosure helps for them to stay warm during the snow storm. -- From my studies in history the native people who live in the far north of North America over 20,000 years ago crossed over from East Russia via the bearing strait. Back then the strait was joined. Over the many generations some of these native people migrated more south all the way down through to South America. I never thought Eskimo would be an insult to these people. Eskimo means, "eater of raw meat." These people ate their fish and meat raw. They had no means to roast it especially during the winter months. To help heat their igloo and supply light they would have oil lamps using whale oil. These lamps were kept burning and never put out. Fire was not easy for them to light especially during the winter months. Most of modern day Eskimo people cook their food. In today's world, the native people use igloos more for tourism. Very few of them live traditionally today. They now have heated homes with electricity, running water internet, satellite TV, and etc. They drive around on snow mobiles during the long winter months and use off road trucks during the summer months. Most of their food is locally hunted and fished. Imported food from the south is very expensive. When I was a kid I spent some visiting time in the far north of Canada. My father was doing wild life photography, and he used to take me with him at times. When he went out with the guide I stayed in the cabin area with the others. I was not permitted to go outside on my own without an escort. These people were very friendly and were very hospitable to guests. Was a good experience for me.
prick LOL dont give away our secrets in case they invade we can watch them as they raid the decoy houses and we sit back and laugh from our cozy camo'd igloo's ;)
i am from the philippines. when is wintertime in philippines we all build igloos because is more warm than our cardboard house. also if there is earthquake or typhoon igloo wont blow down like house made of cardboard. is more stable and wintertime is typhoon season. we even have tornado made of snow in typhoon season. Greetings from the philippines !!
Ashley Homan I’m assuming that because it’s so cold outside that it’s constantly freezing back if it melts past a certain point. Like have you seen the video of someone throwing boiling water in the negative something degrees, it instantly turns to snow? Does that make any sense?
You would get an inner layer of ice on the walls. This will stop air from passing through the snow blocks and going out. Less circulation of air = more humid air inside. And in these climates, humid air is colder than dry air. The igloo would get more solid and robust, but it would also be colder. Igloos arent permanent buildings and needs to be rebuilt after a while.
Yeha but honestly, still much better than all those videos out there, stretching every little thing into 10 Minutes, even a question like this. I liked the extra information around it
I’m glad you mentioned the lower level where the cold air goes! You got a dig a trench or something to have the cold air go somewhere! I saw that in a episode of man vs wild
No, there is a such thing as pitch black. If you can see anything at all, that means that there is a light source coming from somewhere. But say, outside right now, I do not exactly feel any heat, but I know that I can still get colder.
Wasted Bear when i was in school they played his brothers channel because it was biology class and we didn't have skateboards because high school students will break it somehow and just expensive for every class to have one.
Amazing video, but you did miss a step, in order to allow better insulation, they had to melt it slightly with a campfire, and refreeze it. That would add a much better layer of insulation.
When I was a kid every time there was a major blizzard I would find a snow drift close to my house and make a fort in it . It would be cozy inside and you could hardly hear any wind from the storm
Most igloos, at least in Canadas eastern arctic, are built downwards as well as upwards. The blocks are cut from what will become then lower portion of the igloo, meaning you only need to built half as much as your excavating as well as erecting the igloo. They usually also incorporate a tunnel entrance as well as a cold trap, a lower portion in the floor, so sleeping and everything is done on an elevated platform, meaning the cold air that leaks in from the doorway pools in the cold trap. Also as far as I know and was told when I lived in the Arctic, people in the eastern Arctic refer to themselves as Inuit, or "The People" and Native peoples in the western arctic and Alaska don't mind the term Eskimo. Another thing that I was told was that Eskimo is actual a Cree word that meant raw eater, referring to the Inuits way of eating traditional country food raw. I'm not entirely sure of the validity of all this info, but it was told to me by an Inuk when I lived in Nunavut.
Inuits really don't have many words for different types of snow, it's just that they have lots of different languages and dialects. English actually has more different words for snow. Far more if you include all types of precipitation.
wikipedia has the answer: "On the outside, temperatures may be as low as −45 °C (−49 °F), but on the inside the temperature may range from −7 °C (19 °F) to 16 °C (61 °F) when warmed by body heat alone."
I had the idea recently to build a sort of snow gingerbread house, but ended up just going for an igloo and now I'm suddenly wanting to learn all about igloos.
Hey, can you do a video about how humans migrated to very cold places on earth? What advantages did they have against better climats and why did people have to move to such hard to survive places?
When people migrate, the reason is to seek a better way of life, in general. It's the cause of migrants into the United States. Europeans were escaping Rome's oppression, crowded cities, and poor work prospects. Still, it's hard to imagine a people ending up in the arctic on purpose! It seems more likely a group got shipwrecked and had no choice but make a way of life in the frozen North... Either way, there's something to be said about determination, and the remarkable Human spirit!
@@AverageAmerican Think about the different animals that reside in these cold places. Think about what the Inuit live on and hunt. Whales, polar bears, moose and narwhals. These are all big bulky creatures which have massive stores of meat and blubber. I read before that many nomadic peoples migrated over generations further north to hunt these animals. Back when people were migrating like that there were also woolly mammoths as well, massive creatures which have a lot of meat. The nomadic peoples migrated across this frozen land for hunting purposes. In Siberia there are vast herds of animals like reindeer which migrate with the seasons and the people could have followed them. Maybe there was a Christoper Colombus like person who led an expedition across the Bering Straight to the Americas and his tribe followed. Remember, these people had the same brain development as us today but they were hunter gatherers.
The heat given off by people inside igloos can substantially warm the air inside (helped out by the fact that snow is a very good insulator). But because the snow/ice/water that makes up the igloo structure has so much more mass and has such a higher heat capacity than the air inside, the igloo melts slowly.
@@noaheleazar I'm not sure, but a single igloo could have been used by the Inuit throughout the colder months. But when I googled it an article said that an igloo could last even longer given the temperature outside was low enough.
Regarding use of the word "Eskimo" in this video: We are now aware, thanks to many polite comments from our audience, that this is viewed as a derogatory term among many native peoples of Canada, as well as in some Arctic regions. Several of our references centered on Alaskan natives, among whom this term is more commonly accepted. Additionally, we used the term in reference to native languages, which are more commonly referred to as Eskimo or Eskimo-Inuit, and not the people, but we should have been more clear and sought out another term. We apologize to those we offended, and have learned a lot. We'll do better in the future, as we always aim to do.
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How is Eskimo offensive?
It's Okay To Be Smart ok
E are you Inuit to decide what’s offensive or not?
Bunch a fookin pc pussies
"There's no such thing as cold!" You sound like my Landlord when I ask him to turn the heat up.
Your landlord is a brute, Brian.
There's no such thing as hot either
Is your landlord Russian?
That is fucked up that he controls that and not you.
@@LonelyCinderella123 Maybe their landlord is their dad, whose house they live in.
My friends moved into their new igloo.
All was going perfectly for them up until the housewarming party.
Savage 😂
that's a 7/10
Yep enjoy with dangerous walruses and elephant seals lol
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Oh god
*My brain at 3 AM* : Let's find out why Igloos keep us warm.
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That's me at now at 1:53 am!
It's amazing how survival and hunger can push the boundaries of human innovation. Building a house out of SNOW and surviving in some of the most harshest climates on Earth is pure genius and madness! Hats off to the Eskimos man...it's a way of life out there.
@sebas Stein viu só Deus é bless ele TBM tem que cumprir sua missão e dar por encerrado. Ele disse eu sou o Alfa e o Omega.o princípio e o fim. Tudo and 🙂🤳🌍 Como ele quer . Quem e o Homem para dirigir o seus passos .pois Deus conhece todos eles .
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this is...
I don't get the hype. I was doing this as a kid in snowbanks. 😂😂
Just men?
@@Raison_d-etre yes
cry about it
“How to keep an igloo warm”
13 million people: I don’t need sleep I need answers
Why did you betrayed the whole gang dutch?
watching this at 2am
@@fixitfelix3961 They lost faith they were doubting me
@@mcdonaldssauce7095 you had a goddamn plan
@@jamesolsen2137 no no no no no I have a GODAMN PLAN
In the military we did a field operation for a month in the mountains during winter and it got to -30f some nights, well one of those nights was survival night. We got dropped off in pairs with minimal food, water, or clothing. Basically just you your partner and a shovel and you had to be as comfortable as possible for about 12 hours over night. The only person who managed not to get frost bite or be extremely cold was someone who found a hill and dug out a whole cave to sleep in. You would go in there and start sweating it was pretty cool
What branch was this?
@@Qeboflu gotta be more specific, there’s like a million trees bud
Cool
@@Lynx21k bruh lmao
Pretty hot
Imagine the first person to built a house out of ice. People called him crazy, but he had the last laugh.
Ye lol
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@@David-gj9qr Or it
Or ur mom
it always felt natural to me to know that isolated structures of snow is kind of warm, ive played so much in the snow (I live in the north of quebec it snows 6 - 7 months a year and it always felt somewhat warm when we'd build tunnels and mini size igloo and stuff
I wonder if this might have helped some of the UN Coalition soldiers during the Korean War (the winter on the peninsula was incredibly brutal in 1950, with some US servicemen measuring like 50 degees Fahrenheit below zero). At Chosin Resevoir and other areas, frostbite became a serious problem and there's footage of guys sleeping in blankets under thin layers of snow (unsure if the cloth tents weren't working or what, but maybe it wasn't making much of a difference). I wonder if makeshift igloos might have worked better in their camps. At least frostbite would have hurt them less.
@@thunderbird1921 not sure if youre ever gonna see this reply from the future, but i can speak from experience that those tents make very little difference. they are supposedly all weather, but in the cold, its freaking cold XD. The sleeping bags are what kept us all warm, but in order for them to work at peak efficiency in the cold, youd have to be in your underwear or naked, with your clothes inside the second most inner layer so you dont sweat on them making them cold and wet, and they can stay somewhat warm with your body heat.
source: was a soldier for 5 years and lived through some harsh winters lol
My dad taught me how to build one, though it was pretty rough. The ones our ancestors and some of our elders would build were carved and shaped to be surprisingly smooth. Building it this way was better for keeping it warm and nicer to look at. And also, Inuit had a qulliq, a traditional stove fueled by seal blubber to help keep the igloo warm during the night.
your comment deserves more likes. it's cool to hear from someone with firsthand experience.
Snowy Owl,where were You? Alaska?
@@thomastolbert6184 I'm from Nunavut in Canada
That's amazing.
Snowy Owl Thanks for the local knowledge. How do they choose the ice to cut . How or with what did your ancestors cut it with ? Than You.
In my chemistry class when we found out there is no such thing as cold, throughout anytime it was freezing outside we would say “damn it’s less hot outside”
Not funny
@@petergianakopoulos4926 never said it was funny 🤷🏽♂️
@@uforocker1488 i appreciate your kelvin humility
@@petergianakopoulos4926 I think its pretty funny
@@Trian. it would be for a very limited audience
I remember making fairly sizable igloos in the Midwest as a kid. We would make them with five gallon buckets with packed snow. My dog and I spent many nights in these snow buildings/rooms, and always stayed nice and warm with a comfortable coat and insulated undergarments. I’ll never forget those wonderful memories. Never got cold in there, and used my German Shepard as a pillow.
Sounds wonderful!
wow
Or maybe the German Shepherd was using you as a blanket 😂
@@katiesstudycorner1109a self heating blanket!
so as a Canadian who grew up learning about this. polar bears did it first. they dig holes in snow banks. the Inuit copied it. snow and ice are very good insulators because when it gets cold enough, stuff starts repelling heat. several people huddled in a small space where all the heat is reflected back into the space, is quite cozy.
Who the hell first invented an igloo, anyway? "This ice is too cold. To protect myself I will surround myself with it."
Some one just tried it.I mean like some day some one would discover it and some one did.
DatBoy SoTalented well they probably noticed that the animals dug up and hid in the snow
DatBoy SoTalented Maybe they weren't dumb and realised some properties of heat. That it rises and that it can also be trapped.
They probably were looking for a windbreak at first
cool
I think ice puns are cool and all, but ya'll need to chill out with them.
Freeze right there! I see what you did!
lmaoooo
@@Doug_Fany lmaoooo
Ahh diversifying your cultural knowledge , very nice
We meet again
Simply: Air is a good insulator and the traped air in the snow work as a barrier and tends to keep the inside temperature at the temperature where water turns into snow/Ice. So the zero degree C inside an iglo would be a heaven when the outer air temp is minus40.
Thanks
And I thought the inside of my house is cold when I don't turn up my heat up to 68°...
Plus there's a cold air sink at the entrance so you're conserving your body's waste heat
@Account NumberEight trapped . You can say it porosity of snow or tinny air pockets .
Do You know 90 to 95 percent of snow mass comprises of air?
I just wrote up there ^^ about working construction in the winter. My favourite was when it was -10 C because it was cold enough that everything stayed frozen. You could brush the snow off the lumber and your clothes, gloves, etc without it melting. 0 to - 5 C was the worst because you'd get soaked. At -10 while working, you could strip down to a sweater and insulated overalls and be perfectly comfortable. I had a coworker whose new work coat he paid $300 for "broke". It got wet, then the sun went down and it froze so when he bent his elbow it cracked......
As a veteran mountaineer who has slept in his share of snow caves, when it's -20F outside and a balmy 32F inside, it seems like the tropics. I've gone climbing without a bivy or tent, just a shovel and sleeping bag is all you need.
I’ve been winter mountain camping where we built igloos to sleep in. It’s amazing the temperature difference as you crawl inside. The tunnel in below the platform inside is pretty close to outside temp, for us about 0 degrees F. Once two of us were inside the temp was about 78 degrees F to point of sweating inside.
They’re incredibly strong structures as well. We had to dig down a significant depth to find hard enough packed snow to cut blocks. So our igloo was essentially built into a pit for extra wind protection, with a sort of dug in patio area outside. The first night we had heavy snowfall that filled in around the igloo and the pit it was in. The top of the igloo was basically at ground level and completely covered with new snow. We literally built a 2nd igloo on top of it and cut a hole between them to have a two story igloo. When we left it took sledge hammers and a couple hours to knock them down.
this sounds amazing
why knock them down?
@@DugrozReports They can become a hazard for future hikers. Particularly if they get completely covered in new snow they could collapse and injure someone. Generally you attempt to leave no trace, which includes taking down temporary structures.
Almost 80?! Wow! Never would have guessed that. Awesome story
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My snow house kept falling apart so *igloo* it together again.
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I can't wait for Apple to release the iGloo
good one m8
Kishore Shenoy $999 because of the logo
Kishore Shenoy I am pretty sure it won't have the headphone jack
oh please, microsoft is about to release igloos
it's like a shitty glue, but more eXpensive
A good layer of snow is what keeps most water mains from freezing and bursting during winter. Hence hope for lots of snowfall to keep the frost from penetrating to the pipes.
i'm pretty sure most pipes are below the frost line anyways
Inuits have just as many words for snow as we do, because their language allows for many compound words. We say, "don't eat the yellow snow", they say "don't eat the yellowsnow".
but more Inuit
lol, this is adressed in the video. How have you not deleted this comment by now?
Because no one watches after the sign off, that's why
And he still didn't actually clarify anything, just plugged another channel
More like "Yellowsnoweatnot." Entire sentences can be one word!
"wanna study for tomorrow's exam?"
"Meh"
"Hey wanna know why people build igloo on the other side of the world where you're never gonna go"
"Hell yeah"
Building igloos during winter is actually pretty rad
*hail yeah
Why is this literally me right now
That's me
Yep
There’s no such a thing as cold
There’s hot’nt
Hashim abdalla this is the comment of the year
I didn't like that meme and I still don't like that meme
Idk why this is funny
MrTinyCat no one cares lmao
comment of the year awards
The fastest, easiest and best way to keep yourself warm and protect yourself from the weather is just to dig in The snow. Dig down, find a hill and dig side ways into the snow. Its alot faster and easier. Dig a hole and when The weather clears either get going or make a proper shelther (wouldent bet on making a igloo since its quite hard to make it right and very tireing but it is possible) where you can try and make a fire or Light your "portable kitchen" (dont know what its called in english 😂)
There. I finally watched it RUclips. Are you happy now?
Jacob Barrett same last name
time to confess.. you are brothers
I’d like, but minecraft - the worst of gaming history - won’t let anyone stack more than 64 of one item.
How long was this haunting your reccomendations?
years
I will never put this information to use but hey, it's 4 am and I can't sleep.
same fam
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4:08am lol
TheLMMish lol same
Just so you know, the word igloo is actually the Inuktitut (Inuit language) word for house, so it doesn't only refer to a snow house. A permanent wood or brick dwelling would also be called an igloo in Inuktitut.
Words mean different in different languages bruh. Maybe natives of polar regions used that language and so they names their only known home (for them) igloo.
Interesting to know but doesn’t apply to English.
Am I the only one happy about learning this fun fact?
Iglu
@@irfanteddiesvideos6664bruh
When I was a kid I use to build an igloo in the backyard when we would get a heavy snowfall. I found out if you would light a candle and leave it in there it will create a hard layer of ice. Believe it or not you are so much warmer in that igloo than you are outside of it. No wind and quiet.
@@paddor It was made out of snow and look like an igloo so I’m assuming it’s an igloo let’s just call it an igloo.
@@hvacexplained9341 lol k
You're warmer inside than outside? Unbelievable.
@@ebogar42 total mindblower right? I gotta stop sleeping outside now!
The person who discovered this was like “ha ha I’m going to be freezing in here, woah it’s warm”
Nathan Gilbert Actually he was right! "Freezing" is way warmer than "40 BELOW freezing".
why would he troll himself. dumbass
+Jerel Moore he didn't know..
Ben Jackbag Mank you live in iglo? I have a question, its safe to make a fireplace inside iglo? For make inside more warm
Or It was windy as hell so he builded the first igloo
God I miss my Igloo
Me too
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@@irloser that got shut down by Disney didn't it
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"40 degrees warmer than the surrounding air"
so it's still below freezing.
It has to be below freezing or it would melt...
Freezing isn't really that cold though, they would sleep in warm clothing
thats why he said to bring a friend
Real igloos have skins and furs placed on the inside. Within the the furs it reaches a comfortable temperature, and the gap between the firs and the snow prevent it from fully melting.
40 degrees is really hot, more then human body temperature. But somehow I doubt they meant degrees Celsius.
Correct, I missed that part.
This actually all makes sense to me because when i was a kid, i used to play in a foot of snow with a ton of clothes on. However, when I would “bury” myself in the snow and just lay down in it, I noticed I was actually getting warmer despite being covered in snow. Strange phenomenon
I figured that out digging out snowbanks. I would crawl in and be warm.
Another great feature of igloos (or igluit in Inuktitut (I think)) is that they create their own mortar/insulation. There's a temperature gradient from the inside (let's say 20C) to the outside (let's say -50C). Somewhere in between, inside the wall, the temperature will reach 0C and at that point any melting snow's water will turn to ice. That will then bind the snow blocks together, seal up any holes or cracks and provide the mortar for the igloo.
First day might be pretty cold but second, third day will be better because all the little seams will be glazed over with ice. It still won't be toasty warm as some say. There is no wind inside the igloo.
Well, the temperature difference between inside and outside makes all the difference for sure.
Though i have no experience with igloos, i only have some with tents.
On one of my camps i was - 12 °C outside during the night, but i could raise the temperature inside my tent to about + 5 °C by using some candles.
Just enough to sleep well under my blankets and wash and dress me in the morning.
And when i returned to my flat, i was so used to the cold, i was actually sweating though there was only about + 10 °C in my rooms !🤣👍🏼
An igloo will not get to 20° c because that would melt the thing, but being comfortable when it's -1° c is much easier than when it's -40° c
You guys gotta chill out with the ice puns,, they're snow bad...
Blaze StormHammer ima choke
Blaze StormHammer They’re just trying to be cool, why u gotta freeze them out like that? That’s pretty cold
Blaze StormHammer I’m surprised someone actually used the right their/there/they’re on the internet haha
🤣 that's so funny 😄
Its snow joke lol 😆
I've heard that in some Inuit cultures huskier women are considered more desriable as wives because they keep an igloo warmer.
Huskier?
Feynstein 100 big boned ace
I'd still prefer a hot Inuit chick to warm my igloo
Uhmm no. We were a nomadic people. That would be hard work for the sled dogs. But we use to take second wives if the hunter was skilled enough.
Manny Kudlak Some people are naturally fatter than others though, I don't mean to say they favoured obese women. I can't imagine there were any obese inuits prior to industrialisation reaching them, their diet hardly allowed for that.
I was stationed in Alaska, Fort Wainwright, for four plus years in the eighties and we had to go to arctic survival school if we were aircrewman and pilots. We learned how to build a shelter using pine tree boughs and snow. Room for only one! Dang thing kept us warm enough at 30 below to sleep comfortably.
This video has no chill
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Ur name! Lol archer is so funny
Are we Still doing Phrasing I fucking love your name🙃
lol, ice see what you did there. nICE pun.
QuickScope4201337 that igloo was an ICEsore
1:04 Actually, they're not really words, it's just a product of how the language works that means if you want to describe an object, then the description of the object goes withing what we would consider a word: ruclips.net/video/xW4hI_METac/видео.html
Your definition is one very specific way of looking at "words", and it is not the only definition. It is without question that Eskimo-Aleut languages have an extensive vocabulary for snow, and what I said in the video should not be controversial. What *is* controversial, tracing back to Boas, is whether that extensive vocabulary is significant to their cultural relationship with their environment, or in any way different than how we all relate to our environment using language. That… is an ongoing question (and one that I didn't talk about on purpose)
@It's Okay To Be Smart, Hi at 4:37 you mentioned that, "...the body heat melts the innermost layer thus strengthening the wall..." and that having another warm body will get warmer faster.
My question is, regardless of having 1 or more bodies, will the igloo eventually melt and cause holes in the igloo? Or will the outside cold never let that happen? You never mentioned these. Thanks in advance!
You wouldn't say German has fifty different ways of describing snow, so why Eskimo?
Ya... but it is undeniably misleading to say "Eskimo languages really do have dozens and dozens of different words for snow because there are a lot of different types." It's actually mostly because it's a polysynthetic language... it is only in small part because there are a lot of different types of snow. There are dozens and dozens of words for many common nouns, snow isn't special in that regard. What we would express using a noun-phrase, they express using a unique "word" built up of a root with descriptive affixes.
So I'll repeat, it is because of the nature of the language, not the uniqueness of snow.
I'm only commenting, though, because I think you know that, and I think it is unfortunate that you, who purport to be a reliable source of information would be misleading for the sake of convenient narration.
look up what a 'Agglutinative' language means. 'words' dont apply in that area. A whole sentence is one 'word' with a root word and then around 7 suffixes. The only additional 'words' usually used are subjects, like a person or self-reference. You need to actually learn and research versus vomiting things up that you browsed a bit.
tl:dr - it's not 50 different words for snow, it's one word (snow) with differing combinations of the suffixes in relation to that snow. Language rules towards something like english do not apply to a language like Inuktitut or other Inuk languages.
Not really wanting to start a heating argument with anyone, but Eskimo languages are agglutinative, meaning you glue words together to make a sentence or phrase. German is similar, but not the same. Eskimo languages glue their word for snow and add more information to the front and/or ends of the base to create a new word with more information. I'm not sure you would consider this a new word technically, but if so, they do have multiple words for snow.
Linguists hate when people bring up the Inuit example to suggest that culture shapes language. We have several words for "frozen water" in English as well (ice, sleet, hail, snow, slush, floe, iceberg, etc).
But yeah, most people don't even know what agglutinative even means. I've tried explaining the different types of synthetic and analytic language characteristics to my dad, and he didn't get it. lol idk how that's relevant but i'm high af right now
Mihaly I'm not a linguist, but I would guess that you are onto something there. However, compared to Eskimo languages and even German, English is non-agglutinative for the most part.
most languages have some kind of agglutination going on, but some synthetic languages use it as a primary means of morphology, and thus are called "agglutinative languages". English is kind of a synthetic language, although it seems to be drifting into a more analytic direction. I'm not even sure what english would be classified as, but it's certainly not the poster-child for the agglutinative group
Turkish or Hungarian or Finnish are agglutinative languages afaik.
Mihaly, that is affixation not agglutination
I remember during the winter months living in New England, collecting all of the snow that built up on the porch and making a packed-snow-hut to go outside and hotbox in XD
I'd learned nearly all of this information during the "prep time" for that little project... but any excuse to LEARN is always appreciated, even if it's just minutia about otter biology XD
It’s more accurate to say “how igloos keep you from getting too cold”
Cold doesn't exist though 🤔
Haha 69 likes nice
What I don't understand is how you keep cold air entering the "doorway" of the igloo.
@@sebastiansebastian5270 Go and live in the Antarctica, then. It is colder than the Arctic.
@@daisychain3007 the cold air flows down and the warm air stays up. cold air does enter but since the cold air is below and you are above you dont feel the warmth leave you
This information does doesn't relate to my everyday life, and i love it!
Ancient laws this information does for me because I'm learning this at school so yeah
I live in Brazil so... I get that
I live in Austria and I could acctally build an Igloo right now,but like........I have a house so why should I?
btw Eu também venho do Brasil.
Darllington Wesley I live in Houston. Cold Weather literally a joke here. I cried though. Winter lasted a week so far!
Tamara Ritchie For me it's the opposite. In British, warm weather is a joke.
Fun fact: The word "short" is longer than the word "long".
Oh my god...
ok
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@Hamza Abdi Mohamed That's how you start a conversation isnt it?
Clifford Benenati he wasn’t starting a convo. Actually he’s ending it
I remember watching a Magic School Bus about this: Basically ice/snow is always 32oF or close to it for whatever reason, so the interior of the igloo stays slightly above, so while it's not necessarily warm, it's a LOT warmer than the sub zero temps outside, and with the proper clothing you can even stay comfortable.
Igloos are cool. ❄️
damnit you went and did it.
Bob McCoy well actually they're hot
Bob McCoy ok
ameizing
ba dum tss
The igloo doesn’t keep you warm. It keeps you less cold.
I am from canada and I can confirm that is false
@@Physics99 r/wooooooooosh
Yeah it does keep you want, refrenci bff to logic and the video, it has some insulation and keeps in eroding body temperature.
It does keep u nice and warm, but u have to sleep naked under the sheet to avoid sweating.
@@the6ix72 Where is the joke again?
Everyone: Corona-virus!!!
RUclips: wanna know how igloos work?
Prepping us i guess.
Wait for August..
Ikr
Yes
Ii
in New Jersey we would get three months of snow probably around 6 feet. All the kids made igloos. our friend made a triple one with a big one in the middle. The coolest thing I’ve ever seen. They’re actually quite comfortable. If your clothes are dry and you put some thing on the ground, you can actually hang out for quite a while we used to do mean things to each other, though we used to take usually coffee, grinds and spaghetti and throw it inside each other’s igloo walls as a prank. You always knew what somebody had the night before for dinner.
4:33 "..where you'd eat, sleep and *CHILL*."
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That was lame
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Well, that was interesting ! Now I want to build an giant igloo with a bunch of friends and organize a party in it..
Eu4 PLeb dude you're missing out. I guess just another reason not to live in Florida.
from somebody who was born and raised in florida then raised a bit more in a northern state and brought back to florida, I can give you maybe 100 reasons why not to live in florida
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If the Penguins of Madagascar are invited, send me an invite.
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Snow is an insulator. That's why when you see snow covering the tops of telephone poles the power doesn't short out.
These are different insulation concepts. One is about thermal insulation and the other one is about electrical insulation
@Chem from the Shed Bruh, do some research before you comment nonsense and look like an idiot. Diamond is an excellent conductor of heat but an insulator of electricity. They are NOT the same concepts🤦♂️
@@vruatsa distilled water is a terrible conductor of electricity. This probably explains it.
@Screw youtube He thinks the air gaps in snow explains why it isn't conductive. In truth it's the purity of the water that makes it poorly conductive. And also there's no rule that an electrical insulator will be good at preventing the movement of heat.
I've spent the night in a snowhouse during a blizzard, and the most impressive feature was how deadly quiet it was inside.
Me, my sisters and father actually succeeded in making a fully functional igloo, when I was young. We packed snow into, what I believe was a milk box or something, shaping the blocks. It was really neat to sit inside. I have some old photos of it. Even one where spring came and gradually melted the dome... then we got permission to climb on top to make the whole thing cave in!
Was It warm inside? A properly made igloo should be quite cozy.
That you made an igloo at all is quite an accomplishment! Congrats!
DanielRenardAnimation,
Corrected english : My sisters, Father, and i . . .
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He's going on about how strong catenary curves are. You don't have to get all hyperbolic about it!
Some of us actually quite appreaciated it tho 😟
Smack! Noice
@@sadiaaa1373 Look up "hyperbola"
Off on another tangent?
I'm literally in a Tropical country, I shouldn't be here.
Well atleast you wont freeze to death when you *somehow* get lost on cold places
Same
I live in Dubai. Don't know why i am here.
florida 🌴
Were are u
I was telling my wife about a similar thing the other day. When a hard freeze is coming, farmers will saturate their crops with water. Ice then builds up on the crops creating an insulator, which in turn, protects the crops.
Then why does frost kill plants if Ice protects them?
@@ebogar42 i honestly don't know for sure. Maybe the thickness creates a layer of insulation? In Florida, strawberry and orange farmers do it every winter though.
Most likely since the plants are saturated with water the ice forms on the surface. But with a frost, ice will form inside of the plant, which will kill the plant. The idea is to get ice to form outside of the plant cells instead of inside the plant cells as that can cause the cells to burst and die.
Haha as an Alaskan resident, ever time I visit the lower 48 states, they always ask me if I live in one of these...
Thecrazeecow kind of like when I tell people I'm from New York State, they think I grew up in the city. Most don't get NY is mostly rural. Or when its cold here in TN, they say, "You're from NY, you should be used to this." Who gets used to freezing? RITE?!
Rudi Hendricks are you from clearance or some other small small town in WNY
Well do you
SilverSlugs16 If you call a 15th floor high rise suite in the middle downtown Anchorage an igloo, then yes.
Boy, I’m from one of the most southern areas in Ontario and they still ask me if I live in igloos.
I will admit, one time I just said yes.
Now I know why eskimos are so keen to invite you to stay overnight and stuff. Basically, you're a furnace.
My Name is Gladiator haha ha
Har har har
When I was a kid, I though penguins built igloos lol. As I got older, I learned the truth :
Are you god damn telling me that penguins dont build igloos? :c
Lord Xephos
Same I used to think they built igloos
It's a dark reality we live in.
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Man, i had the phone blacked out listening to a playlist and ilas soon as heard this man utter the words "you might even say, its ice cold" i knew what reference he was making. Just as i hear "YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH" in my mind, i hear him play it. This has brung a smile to my face and i thank you kindly sir.
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"sick" lmao
styx' I did. Bad stomach bug.
Well that is unfortunate, get well soon my friend :)
Haunted Pants
LOL, and it wil always be 42.
same 😂😂
That is nothing make up factories has over 1000 words for light Brown
Angelo Szucs Mauve and Taupe first came to mind, then theres Copper, Cinnamon, Bronze, Natural, Nude, Lustre, Autumn, Bark, Dayglo, Shimmer, Tan, Tannier, Tanniest...and these are just off the top of my head. i did not need to google any of these i just remembered from old girlfriends wierd named makeup products
youBoob mauve is like purple
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MischievousMoo Factories isn't supposed to be capitalized. It's "Makeup factories."
I went from a search for hairstyles to why a igloo are warm, well done RUclips well done
I arrived from watching some guys building a to scale model of the Solar System in the desert.Damned thing needed 7 miles of clear ground if the Earth was the size of a marble!😮
Bruhh
Very interesting fact about keeping warm. Deer and moose in the forest for example will crouch down and let the snow fall on top of them with their body heat a type of enclosure of snow will form over them. Their body heat against the snow enclosure helps for them to stay warm during the snow storm.
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From my studies in history the native people who live in the far north of North America over 20,000 years ago crossed over from East Russia via the bearing strait. Back then the strait was joined. Over the many generations some of these native people migrated more south all the way down through to South America.
I never thought Eskimo would be an insult to these people. Eskimo means, "eater of raw meat." These people ate their fish and meat raw. They had no means to roast it especially during the winter months. To help heat their igloo and supply light they would have oil lamps using whale oil. These lamps were kept burning and never put out. Fire was not easy for them to light especially during the winter months. Most of modern day Eskimo people cook their food.
In today's world, the native people use igloos more for tourism. Very few of them live traditionally today. They now have heated homes with electricity, running water internet, satellite TV, and etc. They drive around on snow mobiles during the long winter months and use off road trucks during the summer months. Most of their food is locally hunted and fished. Imported food from the south is very expensive.
When I was a kid I spent some visiting time in the far north of Canada. My father was doing wild life photography, and he used to take me with him at times. When he went out with the guide I stayed in the cabin area with the others. I was not permitted to go outside on my own without an escort. These people were very friendly and were very hospitable to guests. Was a good experience for me.
Thank you for giving me content while I’m on the toilet
i used it to watdh while eating chicken
If that ain’t the truth
Same
I'm just procrastinating
I’m from Canada and we all live in igloos and I can confirm they are warm
prick LOL dont give away our secrets in case they invade we can watch them as they raid the decoy houses and we sit back and laugh from our cozy camo'd igloo's ;)
i am from the philippines. when is wintertime in philippines we all build igloos because is more warm than our cardboard house. also if there is earthquake or typhoon igloo wont blow down like house made of cardboard. is more stable and wintertime is typhoon season. we even have tornado made of snow in typhoon season. Greetings from the philippines !!
I'm from Alaska, and we do the same. Can confirm
Yes
I would love if the entire world stereotype me as if I livef in ingloos, because I love cold, but noo.
What if you put to many people into an igloo, would it melt from the heat or just make it stronger?????
GOt the same question
Ashley Homan I’m assuming that because it’s so cold outside that it’s constantly freezing back if it melts past a certain point. Like have you seen the video of someone throwing boiling water in the negative something degrees, it instantly turns to snow? Does that make any sense?
Ashley Homan that was really rambly, sorry!!
@@ryancollins5016 Come to Freljord and see the real *cold*
You would get an inner layer of ice on the walls. This will stop air from passing through the snow blocks and going out. Less circulation of air = more humid air inside. And in these climates, humid air is colder than dry air. The igloo would get more solid and robust, but it would also be colder.
Igloos arent permanent buildings and needs to be rebuilt after a while.
Igloos are the new quicksand. Something I'm fascinated by, gets talked about a lot, but I will never have to deal with in my real life.
I dunno, depending where you live or travel to, you may actually encounter quicksand at some point.
🎶 Do you wanna build a snow-house? 🎶
It's Okay To Be Smart u really need to let it go
Only with you ;)
no
It's Okay To Be Smart yes
It's Okay To Be Smart let it go guys
Me: reads title
*WHY YES RUclips, I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW RIGHT NAO*
I'm Tyrone ice cold speckie
That's exactly happened.
Took him 5 minutes to say "Ice is an insulator."
Actually he said it at 2:44, I know cause coincidentally he said it as I read your comment.
Yeha but honestly, still much better than all those videos out there, stretching every little thing into 10 Minutes, even a question like this. I liked the extra information around it
You clearly didn't watch the video. It's the air that acts as the insulation, as well as the water that forms due to the heat. D-
@@omnianima4540 same!!
How about a lesson? 45 minutes to say,,Victorian times were different". You need to stretch it out for more info.
I’m glad you mentioned the lower level where the cold air goes! You got a dig a trench or something to have the cold air go somewhere!
I saw that in a episode of man vs wild
Longest 5 minutes of my life but somehow I feel like I learned more from this then I did in 3 years of school
then
@@WINH4X than*
@@Jack-zt1sr tan*
There's no such thing as cold..
Say that when you get up in the morning
Nazaine Especially in the winter
In Chicago's January! California is cool, NEVER COLD! (In my humble opinion, after living through 83 below zero wind chill in Chicagoland)!
Sorry, mate! I still have my doubts. If cold is the absence of heat, that is a Frostbite the extreme absence of heat? How does that make any sense?
No, there is a such thing as pitch black. If you can see anything at all, that means that there is a light source coming from somewhere. But say, outside right now, I do not exactly feel any heat, but I know that I can still get colder.
I don't really know, maybe I'm wrong. It doesn't really matter, anyway.
These are the type of video your teacher plays in their smart board
What is a smart board?
Mind Flowers the board that a projector points to
Ryan Hogan ohh. I haven't been in high school since 08
Wasted Bear when i was in school they played his brothers channel because it was biology class and we didn't have skateboards because high school students will break it somehow and just expensive for every class to have one.
Wasted Bear SO TRU
Amazing video, but you did miss a step, in order to allow better insulation, they had to melt it slightly with a campfire, and refreeze it. That would add a much better layer of insulation.
Even with the development of science, there is the wisdom of our ancestors that should not be forgotten.
I felt the cold just by watching this
Come to Wisconsin, I'll show you what cold is
come to Alaska. wimps
Me too weird af
After seeing this comment, I felt more cold
Saima Sick burn
I am seriously learning more from videos like this than from my actual teachers.
Ксения Ковалевская me to xd
true
Maybe because they have better visual aids and well detailed explanation with the focus inside you home no one distracting you such as chatting...
When I was a kid every time there was a major blizzard I would find a snow drift close to my house and make a fort in it . It would be cozy inside and you could hardly hear any wind from the storm
It’s 5am christmas morning and wtf am i doing with my life, watching recommend igloo vids
Nice...
I'm doing the same two years later.
Good morning yall 🤠
@Xavi I guess so
@Xavi coincidence? I THINK NOT!!
Four of us here on Christmas Day
It’s 5am & here I am laying in bed watching a video of how an igloo keeps you warm
If they're really cold they should just start a fire in the igloo.
dazhibernian yeah because there is wood in the artics
El DOMINICANO FELIZ There is enough for fires aswell they can buy firewood
Yeah, they should use all that snow to burn
Plimpton Until the last few years I don't think they had much of a chance to import or export anything, now, did they?
RageWolf They have been exporting seal skins for quite awhile now so I would imagine they import aswell
0:14-0:18 Loved CSI Miami, and now I wanna watch it all again.
Thanks for that.
Most igloos, at least in Canadas eastern arctic, are built downwards as well as upwards. The blocks are cut from what will become then lower portion of the igloo, meaning you only need to built half as much as your excavating as well as erecting the igloo. They usually also incorporate a tunnel entrance as well as a cold trap, a lower portion in the floor, so sleeping and everything is done on an elevated platform, meaning the cold air that leaks in from the doorway pools in the cold trap. Also as far as I know and was told when I lived in the Arctic, people in the eastern Arctic refer to themselves as Inuit, or "The People" and Native peoples in the western arctic and Alaska don't mind the term Eskimo. Another thing that I was told was that Eskimo is actual a Cree word that meant raw eater, referring to the Inuits way of eating traditional country food raw. I'm not entirely sure of the validity of all this info, but it was told to me by an Inuk when I lived in Nunavut.
Thanks to my late parents my sister and I had the experience of living in an igloo. It was a cold March night but it was toasty warm inside.
Some real igloo clips would’ve been great to see.
This
ruclips.net/video/nugPRn7x6-w/видео.html
that video is kinda long but it shows a person building an igloo. the whole video was great tho
Inuits really don't have many words for different types of snow, it's just that they have lots of different languages and dialects. English actually has more different words for snow. Far more if you include all types of precipitation.
"I dont need sleep, i need answers"
5 yr old kid: Dad, I'm freezing. I feel really cold.
Dad: Son, there's no such thing as cold!
wait... so what's the average temperature range in an igloo with one and with multiple people? Why'd he skip this significant question?
wikipedia has the answer: "On the outside, temperatures may be as low as −45 °C (−49 °F), but on the inside the temperature may range from −7 °C (19 °F) to 16 °C (61 °F) when warmed by body heat alone."
That's actually pretty impressive!
this look legite im from canada i know alote about snow xD
saad apple-air-water I hope you're from the French speaking part.
I had the idea recently to build a sort of snow gingerbread house, but ended up just going for an igloo and now I'm suddenly wanting to learn all about igloos.
Hey, can you do a video about how humans migrated to very cold places on earth? What advantages did they have against better climats and why did people have to move to such hard to survive places?
When people migrate, the reason is to seek a better way of life, in general. It's the cause of migrants into the United States. Europeans were escaping Rome's oppression, crowded cities, and poor work prospects. Still, it's hard to imagine a people ending up in the arctic on purpose! It seems more likely a group got shipwrecked and had no choice but make a way of life in the frozen North...
Either way, there's something to be said about determination, and the remarkable Human spirit!
@@AverageAmerican Think about the different animals that reside in these cold places. Think about what the Inuit live on and hunt. Whales, polar bears, moose and narwhals. These are all big bulky creatures which have massive stores of meat and blubber. I read before that many nomadic peoples migrated over generations further north to hunt these animals. Back when people were migrating like that there were also woolly mammoths as well, massive creatures which have a lot of meat. The nomadic peoples migrated across this frozen land for hunting purposes. In Siberia there are vast herds of animals like reindeer which migrate with the seasons and the people could have followed them. Maybe there was a Christoper Colombus like person who led an expedition across the Bering Straight to the Americas and his tribe followed. Remember, these people had the same brain development as us today but they were hunter gatherers.
This will be useful if I ever get kidnapped, and dropped in North Pole.
Ar Vivo the noth poll is an ocean you know
dropped in the south pole?
chances are high
I live in Michigan, so if by some chance I get stranded somewhere in the middle of winter, I could try to use this??? Pff, I dunno
@@alanrowley6402 no it isn't
It’s 3am what am I doing
3 am is a good time for bongos
Most creative reply, ever!
3:38 for me
I ask the same question myself now lol
Literally me rn
I was playing Dark Souls, and the slicing sound at 4:00 is exactly the same as the "something nearby died" noise, which startled me lmao
Lol dude same
Thanos in antarctic: "I used Ice to kill ice"
he should've gone for the ice
I will Shred this universe to its last ice
It was a price to pay for ice
@@criggorean4676 lmao
@@justlikeit417 thank you I thought it was quite funny myself have a good day bro
Dude..I want a walrus friend.
Zafire063 I should introduce you to my ex-wife.😁
If you like walruses, you should watch the movie "Tusk".
Yessssssssss
Try tinder North Pole
I'm
Question: if your body temperature heats up the igloo, why doesn’t the igloo melt from the inside out?
The heat given off by people inside igloos can substantially warm the air inside (helped out by the fact that snow is a very good insulator). But because the snow/ice/water that makes up the igloo structure has so much more mass and has such a higher heat capacity than the air inside, the igloo melts slowly.
@@ryanzachmathew86 what does slowly mean? how long does it take for it to melt?
@@noaheleazar I'm not sure, but a single igloo could have been used by the Inuit throughout the colder months. But when I googled it an article said that an igloo could last even longer given the temperature outside was low enough.
Inside is melting outside is freezing... Simple is that.
@@nimrahshaukat Yk, that makes a lot of sense. Haha