First mistake, igloos are not made with ice blocks but a special kind of snow that can form blocks when cut. Igloos are still built but usually referred to now as hunting igloos, built quickly when hunters are travelling but with modern tents that is not done as much now in the 21st century.
I agree. It's not ice, but compressed snow that they use for the blocks. A good example is snow drifts. Tight compacted snow. I don't think the robot that is narrating knows the difference.
@@vboch1 I’ve slept in several igloos in different settlements when I lived in the eastern arctic in the 70’s. Helped build an overnight one so I know ice blocks are not used. Great experiences.
Snow is an insulator. I live in the Great White North, Michigan's U.P. When I shoveled, I'd shovel snow up the side of the house, and you would be amazed at the difference. Snow is also traction. While driving and it's icy, if you find some snow, drive on that for a bit and it'll get you going again. My friend owned a gas station. Cars spread gas and oil on the asphalt all summer long. When the first snows fall, it pulls all the gas/oil up off the road...that's why it's extra slippery in the first snows.
Yep, grew up in the UP. Learned early to drive on snow for traction. .(.just need to watch speed). Yes, it is an insulator too. We built houses in the drifts for fun also.
I also was born and raised a Yooper for 44 years before I moved to WI in 2009. I was born in Esky, grew up in Powers and lived as an adult in Iron Mt on the MI/WI border for many years. Nice chatting with fellow Yoopers 😊.
I watch a documentary in college called ‘Nanook of the North’ . It was the first documentary filmed in 1922 .It was very interesting. It showed building an igloo,hunting and butchering seal and trapping .Nanook died of starvation a couple of years after the documentary.In the documentary it said that they would feed their sled dogs before themselves or even their children because if the dogs couldn’t pull the sleds to the seal hunting grounds and back with the meat everyone would die.
Whn I was a kid,many of us liked to make snow forts or igloos.Not being skilled in making them.I could not figure out,how to make the roof not fall in.I ended up using a board accross the top and put snow over it.Had fun playing in them,back in the day.I do not think,many live like that anymore.Fasinating to learn about how they survived though.Heating with oil from a whale or some sea creature.
When I was about 9 years old, a friend and I made an igloo in his backyard. We used blocks of sticky snow made with a cardboard box. The igloo was about 5' in diameter and 4' high inside. We covered the floor with several old pillows and hung a blanket across the entrance. We didn't make a vent hole at the top because we didn't make a fire inside. Nevertheless, were surprised at how warm we were inside.
I knew this was coming... I watch the most random stuff ever. Anyways, i met an Eskimo an? The very few things i know about them is they like raw frozen meat. 🤔🤷🏻♀️ Wever works. But shes soooo quiet & from asian to asian... Ummmmmm. All i could come w/ is whats ur background? I figured id come off less offensive :/... She told me. & I was like thats cool! Cant say ive never known anyone from that region. _and thats pretty much all i got_ . I feel a teeny bit creepy just for even being curious. I guess i got plenty of time to learn. But my annoying habit of trying to pull info from thin air/american pop culture is like samoians! The humpty- ok thats not it. Let me just leave this woman alone. Pretty sure she hates me. Anyways, shes the elderly & i actually know nothing about her personal background
I did the same kind of thing as a teenager in Chicago. In my backyard the snow was 3 to 4 feet deep. I shoveled the sidewalk from the house to the garage, throwing the snow next to the sidewalk building a mound of snow about 6 feet high. Then I hosed it down with water so that it would freeze solid overnight. The next day, me and my friends tunneled into the snow mound and hollowed out the inside until we had a room about 8 feet around. We used cardboard and old carpet to line the floor, carved wall nitches for candles and made chairs out of packed snow. We dug a hole in the ceiling which was about 8 inches thick. Built a small fire in the center and this snow fort go so warm inside, we’d take off our jackets and hang out in just t-shirts. With 5 or six of us in there at night it got almost too hot so we’d put out the fire. We didn’t need it. Probably a dozen candles for light, we drank beer and smoked pot and played cards. It was so warm inside that the walls and ceiling would melt and drip on us, so we’d go back in the house for the night. The next morning the walls were frozen solid again and our fort just got stronger and stronger as the snow mostly turned to ice. The fort lasted from around Christmas until late February and that’s where we spent most of our time after school. Nobody knew where we were because it looked like just a big snow drift from the outside and my mom would pass right by the small entrance to the fort and never noticed it. Really cool hideout. As it got warmer with spring approaching, we gathered up the carpet and cardboard and stashed in my garage for next winter. When the ceiling melted and collapsed you couldn’t even tell it used to be a fort. The next winter we built a bigger and better snow fort in the same place. Still, only us friends knew about it. I grew up and moved to California but I asked my mom years later, if she knew about my snow fort in the back yard? She said no, and I laughed. “You walked right passed it every day going from the house to the garage. Me and all my friends were in there two winters in a row.” She laughed, “You sneaky bugger, that sounds like something you’d do.”
@@ruthnanalook7566 I am reminded of a documentary i watched in the 1980's that discussed something about homonyms(words that sound identical but have entirely different meanings. Apparently the English word rose has seven different distinct meanings. anyway the documentary wanted to explain at what age do people begin to learn how to distinguish the different meanings of a homonym based on the context of the spoken word. To learn this they studied words spoken by Inuits to their babies. I guess for some reason native Alaskan language has a very large number of homonyms. Aside from all that i believe there is credibility to the notion that native Alaskans do have 7-8 different words for ice. Heck, in English language we can refer to it as ice, sleet, snow, slush. All essentially describing forms of water that is in a solid state. The way i learned about why an igloo is an effective insulator against the outside air is that ice get no colder than 0' Celsius. While i am sure that isn't true it still stands to reason that being in room made out of ice is far better than being outside when the air temperature is -50' Celsius. Thank you for introducing me to the word Yupik as it lead me to discover this gem>>>> www.swrsd.org/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=254&dataid=274&FileName=Yupik_Eskimo_Dictionary_Vol_1.pdf
@@ruthnanalook7566 I'm yup'ik as well and I very much prefer to be called Eskimo over Inuit. We aren't Inuit, we are Yup'ik. I'm not gonna expect every person to immediately know what tribe I am. Eskimo is fine to generalize us if you ask me. We have "white" and "black" and "Asian" to generalize people. A Scotsman doesn't want to be called Irish. A Japanese man wouldn't want to be called Chinese. What are they gonna call us? Browns? I like Eskimo. So what if it means netter of snowshoes or eater of meat (depends of your source)? It's better than being called a member of a ethnic group I have no relation to.
This is also misinformation. The Inuit don't like to be called Eskimo. This has led much of the world to start calling all tribes Inuit. We dont even have the same language. Inuit means "the people" to them. Yup'ik means "the people" or "real person" to my people. I hate being called Inuit. I don't mind being called Eskimo by someone who doesn't know what tribe I am
If you couldn't tell if a white person was Scottish or Irish, you would call them white or something along those lines. A Scotsman doesn't like being mistaken for Irish but doesn't bat an eye when you call them white. Many Eskimo peoples view this the same way now. The Inuit obviously are happy about it but we aren't.
WARM is a relative term I'm that the inside of Igloos are warmer than the outside. If it gets above 32°F inside an Igloo they become uninhabitable due to melting of the snow.
Answer, snow is naturally insulating. When I went through Northern Warfare training, we would make a igloo by cutting blocks out of the snow. Then fitting them together with a small hole at the top called the king block, you make a shelf about 8 inches to a foot higher than the floor. We then put aa single candle in the middle of the floor, with pine boughs on the shelf to keep us off the snow. The temp inside would be just above freezing, sealing the seams of the blocks. Its a great nights sleep.
So you continue to call them Eskimo then you grouped them all to one group the Inuit. Forgetting the yupik, inupiat, aleut, athabaskan, or any other native group in that region. The name is from the innu-aimun word ayaskimew meaning a person who laces snowshoe or assimew in innu meaning she laces snow shoe. It was at something used to refer to the Mi'kmaq people and is also used to refer to the husky, malamute, and Eskimo dog.
They also call themselves 'Eskimo' from the French Esquimaux (eaters of raw meat). So don't be so politically correct when even the Eskimos call themselves Eskimos.
Yup'ik here, not Inuit. Hate being called Inuit. Call me an Eskimo before Inuit. In fact, I can net snowshoes and I eat raw meat often (sushi is my favorite thing on this planet). I'm Eskimo and I'm Yup'ik
Also, Athabaskans aren't considered Eskimo's, withholding the whole stigma surrounding the word. I'm part Athabaskan as well (my father is half Yup'ik and half Athabaskan). Apparently we are defined as Athabaskan Indians even though that word "Indian" is a no-go now as well. The Tlingit and Haida are considered Indians instead of Eskimos as well. Something to do with being more closely related to groups such as the Navajo (which isn't even their tribes original name) and other similar ethnic groups.
O.K. Sooo..Since I've got nothing else better to do so I write. When I was around 10 years old I loved the snow, (when I was young, ignorant and foolish), It just so happened that our neighbor across the street had plowed his driveway from a particularly heavy snow storm the night before and "planted it" across that street and onto our property. The following day, I witnessed this HUGE pile of snow. A long story short, I started digging at the base of this "pile" and continued further into this mound until I had cleaned out enough snow in which to inhabit it. Hell, I didn't know a thing about igloos at the time, but proceeded. Eventually, I carved-out enough snow inside to make it comfortable for two people to occupy and I'll never forget that this was where I started smoking cigarettes, (both my Friend and I because we didn't want our parents to know what we were doing). If I re-call, it was very warm and comfortable inside since the icing inside, (from our own breath and a flashlight) lined and insulated that pile of snow. Fun memories of which I never hope to replicate. That same pile which stood there WELL in to June of that year finally had to be kicked down because the green grass was growing up around it and made for a difficult lawn mowing experience. Oh, and this was in Southeast Michigan ! Go figure!
@@mightyriver5017 that's not what I was debating. I didn't make any comment about what igloos are made of all I said was that snow is just air surrounding frozen water crystals (ice) , therefore it's not wrong to say snow is ice because it is a form of ice.
I was laughing at the end when he said, "questions that come to your mind at the time of insomnia after midnight".... lol He is absolutely right. That question just came to my mind at 12:08 am because I couldn't sleep, and so I searched it.
We used to make one as kids. We would have to shovel the walks till it was about 5 feet tall then pack it down and then carve it out. It took most of the day but we could make enough room for a couple of friends. Once you were inside and out of the wind it was comfortable enough to stay all day. I never got frostbite and I’m still here. Also I’ve camped in the woods in winter and surprisingly it’s not too bad.After a day or two you can actually walk around with your coat open. Last time it was about 10f. Snowing but comfortable. When the trip was over going into a restaurant on the way home it felt so HOT. I was drinking water like crazy. My body had gotten so used to the cold. It was like an oven there.
LOL DID U EVER SEE FARE SIDE!!!!! THE POLER SAID," TO ANTHER POLAR BEAR , " I LOVE THESE, (IGLOO) , THEY ARE WONDERFUL, HARD ON THE OUTSIDE, AND WARM N GOOEY IN INSIDE!!!!!!!!!!!
Ice, which is frozen water, would start melting at temperature above 0°C. How could air temperature inside an igloo be 10 to 15°C without melting the igloo's ice wall is beyond me.
You are mixing Temperature with Quantity of Heat. Since the outdoor temperature is so cold, you need way more than a room at 10C to melt the igloo's walls. As an example: If you put your hand in a bucket with hot water (let's say 90C) you are going to burn WAY more than when putting off a match which burns at 700C. This is because the amount of heat in the bucket is way more than the match's.
Having built both igloos and snow cave neither is warm but I would rather spend the night at 32 degrees and out of the wind then at much lower temperatures outside.
@@erikacsizmadia2863 Fill a glass with 12 oz of water and light a match underneath. The match temperature is approx 700C, let me know when the water starts boiling (it will never happen because the amount of heat is too low, regardless of the temperature). The opposite happens inside the igloo, although the temperature may be high enough to melt the water, it does not do it because there is too little heat to melt the amount of ice.
@@erikacsizmadia2863 It does melt a little, but quickly refreezes and forms a tile like surface of ice. When the people go outside of it, and don't have a fire, it becomes solid again. So... yes it does freeze, but not all the way through. I live in a cold climate, and in the spring, when it gets warmer and the snow starts to melt, it can take weeks for it all to melt, even when the temperature has been above freezing.
Sea waters, by the way, are extinct. And if the narrator believes eskimos/Inuit don’t like the term Eskimo why on earth does he use it? 2 minutes would have sufficed this video.
Sea waters I’m assuming are sea otters. Not sure where you get your information from that they are extinct, they most certainly are not. I see them daily running up and down the banks and beaches and feeding in the sea where I live.
Negative. The Mediterranean, Black, Dead, & Red Seas consist of what's known as "sea water," & are certainly not extinct. I think your usage of certain mushrooms, & magically mystical fairy dust from South America is impeding your grip on reality, mate...
Traditionally, the Inuit used seal oil for heating and lamp lighting fuel. Nowadays, they would most likely use kerosene or another fuel they could buy from a store, though some of them might still use seal oil.
Good question! It's pretty interesting actually. A have a few ways to try and make the principles make sense. First off, I want to start with explaining that the inside layer of the snow does start to melt and turns to ice, while the rest remains snow. So it does start to melt so I guess that removes the question but I'm still gonna try to explain why it doesn't melt further. Say it's -40⁰F which is -40⁰C outside. That's a large volume of air outside at an extreme cold. Far colder than freezing. It's attempting to penetrate your igloo and make the air inside cold. It'll do a far better job of it than your fire will at making the air outside warm. However your fire will win the fight because of the small amount of air in the igloo. Your fire spends all of its energy heating the air, which is flowing out the vent so the fire has to constantly heat the air. So that snow stays cold because that -40⁰F is winning. Another commenter on another post (sorry can't remember your name if you see this) explained it this way. Take a 12 ounce glass of water and try to boil the water with a match. The match burns at around 700⁰C, seven times the temperature water tends to boil at. It won't happen and, in fact, the majority of the glass will stay cold. If you throw a full plastic bottle of water into a fire, the plastic won't melt until the water inside has become hot enough for the plastic to melt. That one's a bit of the opposite reaction, seeing as the heat is in higher volume instead of the cold, but similar principles. Hope this helps!
It's just semantics, ice and snow is literally identical on a molecular level. In fact, a thin layer of ice will form in igloos. Do there's plenty of ice.
I lived for a week in a snow cave when ski touring in the Andes. At night, it was -25 C outside but 0 inside. Dig a cold air trap at the entrance (cold air sinks), smooth the dome with a rubber glove on the inside. If there are any convex features on it, it will drip. Cover the floor with a plastic sheet. Keep two small holes open for a little air circulation, you dont want to poison yourself with CO2.
10-15 degrees is warm?? lol.....I guess it is all relative, but it is still below freezing, and they have to keep wearing all of their clothing inside...
That’s hilarious....theres more than one source of heat especially in a resourceful culture like they had, seal blubber was rendered and the oil was lit. Google it.
@@akbillers5686 What a cool introduction! Yeah. Even as a kid, I felt something was wrong with the whole "Inuit, not Eskimo" logic. The Arctic is so vast and touches the U.S., Canada, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. Am I being told that all those people are from one tribe with only only language and only one word for people, Inuit?
Why admit that calling them Eskimos is effectively an insult and then carry on doing it when you could have easily carried on calling them by their proper name which you stated is the Inuit! Just a thought!
If you eat an abnormally high abundance of beans daily, you will stay remarkably warmer in the igloos. It is with high caution though, that you not have any open flames in said igloo, under this unique heating technique. Explosively catastrophic mushroom clouds may result!
What's a sea water? When you show a sea "otter" and call it a sea water, I know that an AI reader doesn't understand the difference. Too bad you can't get a real person to narrate this so we wouldn't have to scratch our heads trying to figure out what the reader meant.
Igloos work and are engineered to retain heat. Brilliant idea by the wonderful Inuit people. 👏
The heat is great. But what keeps the heat from melting the ice? Even at 15c?
That is something I always assumed otherwise why would they live in them.
LOL "They hate to be called Eskimo" Proceeds to call them Eskimos for rest of videoc😂
Thank you for saying exactly what I was thinking...
Like Rodney Dangerfeild.. they get no respect.😠
Ikr, lmao…
@@justhearmeout …gees I tell ya, no respect, lol
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I hope he doesn’t decide to do a video on black people. 😳
Is this AI generated? The animal first seen is a sea OTTER! Not a sea water! :-) What a hoot! :-)
"They feel upset and are insulted." Yup definitely AI
Oc it’s ai
AI dumber than a demacrat voter which is why they love it.
@TERRYBIGGENDEN I think it’s robot/AI too-some of the other words are also wrong and out of place.
You can hear from the audio it sounds like it's spliced. It's not though. This is 1009000000000% AI generated.
First mistake, igloos are not made with ice blocks but a special kind of snow that can form blocks when cut. Igloos are still built but usually referred to now as hunting igloos, built quickly when hunters are travelling but with modern tents that is not done as much now in the 21st century.
I agree. It's not ice, but compressed snow that they use for the blocks. A good example is snow drifts. Tight compacted snow. I don't think the robot that is narrating knows the difference.
@@vboch1 I’ve slept in several igloos in different settlements when I lived in the eastern arctic in the 70’s. Helped build an overnight one so I know ice blocks are not used. Great experiences.
AI has a lot to answer for. I’m getting really frustrated with the amount of inferior narration online to be honest.
...you said it brother, true that
@SaltyShamanwhen it's the only thing online in years you'll understand.
Snow is an insulator. I live in the Great White North, Michigan's U.P. When I shoveled, I'd shovel snow up the side of the house, and you would be amazed at the difference. Snow is also traction. While driving and it's icy, if you find some snow, drive on that for a bit and it'll get you going again. My friend owned a gas station. Cars spread gas and oil on the asphalt all summer long. When the first snows fall, it pulls all the gas/oil up off the road...that's why it's extra slippery in the first snows.
Yep, grew up in the UP. Learned early to drive on snow for traction. .(.just need to watch speed). Yes, it is an insulator too. We built houses in the drifts for fun also.
I also was born and raised a Yooper for 44 years before I moved to WI in 2009. I was born in Esky, grew up in Powers and lived as an adult in Iron Mt on the MI/WI border for many years. Nice chatting with fellow Yoopers 😊.
Yep I live in the lower Peninsula you guys get a lot of snow up that way
Not a big pile yet...it's another weird one....@@CDM1971
Igloos are relatively warm when it is outside minus forty F and inside 32 F. Otherwise it does not get warmer than 32 F inside of an igloo.
Wow, "since a long time ago." That's a long time.
...for sure, lmao
I watch a documentary in college called ‘Nanook of the North’ . It was the first documentary filmed in 1922 .It was very interesting. It showed building an igloo,hunting and butchering seal and trapping .Nanook died of starvation a couple of years after the documentary.In the documentary it said that they would feed their sled dogs before themselves or even their children because if the dogs couldn’t pull the sleds to the seal hunting grounds and back with the meat everyone would die.
We watched that too. I agree, very interesting.
Whn I was a kid,many of us liked to make snow forts or igloos.Not being skilled in making them.I could not figure out,how to make the roof not fall in.I ended up using a board accross the top and put snow over it.Had fun playing in them,back in the day.I do not think,many live like that anymore.Fasinating to learn about how they survived though.Heating with oil from a whale or some sea creature.
When I was about 9 years old, a friend and I made an igloo in his backyard. We used blocks of sticky snow made with a cardboard box. The igloo was about 5' in diameter and 4' high inside. We covered the floor with several old pillows and hung a blanket across the entrance. We didn't make a vent hole at the top because we didn't make a fire inside. Nevertheless, were surprised at how warm we were inside.
I knew this was coming... I watch the most random stuff ever. Anyways, i met an Eskimo an? The very few things i know about them is they like raw frozen meat. 🤔🤷🏻♀️ Wever works. But shes soooo quiet & from asian to asian... Ummmmmm. All i could come w/ is whats ur background? I figured id come off less offensive :/... She told me. & I was like thats cool! Cant say ive never known anyone from that region. _and thats pretty much all i got_ . I feel a teeny bit creepy just for even being curious. I guess i got plenty of time to learn. But my annoying habit of trying to pull info from thin air/american pop culture is like samoians! The humpty- ok thats not it. Let me just leave this woman alone. Pretty sure she hates me. Anyways, shes the elderly & i actually know nothing about her personal background
I did the same kind of thing as a teenager in Chicago. In my backyard the snow was 3 to 4 feet deep. I shoveled the sidewalk from the house to the garage, throwing the snow next to the sidewalk building a mound of snow about 6 feet high. Then I hosed it down with water so that it would freeze solid overnight. The next day, me and my friends tunneled into the snow mound and hollowed out the inside until we had a room about 8 feet around. We used cardboard and old carpet to line the floor, carved wall nitches for candles and made chairs out of packed snow. We dug a hole in the ceiling which was about 8 inches thick. Built a small fire in the center and this snow fort go so warm inside, we’d take off our jackets and hang out in just t-shirts. With 5 or six of us in there at night it got almost too hot so we’d put out the fire. We didn’t need it. Probably a dozen candles for light, we drank beer and smoked pot and played cards. It was so warm inside that the walls and ceiling would melt and drip on us, so we’d go back in the house for the night. The next morning the walls were frozen solid again and our fort just got stronger and stronger as the snow mostly turned to ice. The fort lasted from around Christmas until late February and that’s where we spent most of our time after school. Nobody knew where we were because it looked like just a big snow drift from the outside and my mom would pass right by the small entrance to the fort and never noticed it. Really cool hideout. As it got warmer with spring approaching, we gathered up the carpet and cardboard and stashed in my garage for next winter. When the ceiling melted and collapsed you couldn’t even tell it used to be a fort. The next winter we built a bigger and better snow fort in the same place. Still, only us friends knew about it.
I grew up and moved to California but I asked my mom years later, if she knew about my snow fort in the back yard?
She said no, and I laughed. “You walked right passed it every day going from the house to the garage. Me and all my friends were in there two winters in a row.” She laughed, “You sneaky bugger, that sounds like something you’d do.”
@@ahhwe-any7434What the hell are you even talking about?! 😳😂😂🤦🏽♂️
Quinzee*
@@ahhwe-any7434You crazy!?
Igloos are made of snow blocks and not of ice. And snow contains air.
I'm an Yupik Alaskan, hey, Ms. Anita, you are very right,and this narrator is right. We don't like to be called Eskimos. GOD BLESS YOU❤️🔥
@@ruthnanalook7566 I am reminded of a documentary i watched in the 1980's that discussed something about homonyms(words that sound identical but have entirely different meanings. Apparently the English word rose has seven different distinct meanings. anyway the documentary wanted to explain at what age do people begin to learn how to distinguish the different meanings of a homonym based on the context of the spoken word. To learn this they studied words spoken by Inuits to their babies. I guess for some reason native Alaskan language has a very large number of homonyms.
Aside from all that i believe there is credibility to the notion that native Alaskans do have 7-8 different words for ice. Heck, in English language we can refer to it as ice, sleet, snow, slush. All essentially describing forms of water that is in a solid state. The way i learned about why an igloo is an effective insulator against the outside air is that ice get no colder than 0' Celsius. While i am sure that isn't true it still stands to reason that being in room made out of ice is far better than being outside when the air temperature is -50' Celsius.
Thank you for introducing me to the word Yupik as it lead me to discover this gem>>>> www.swrsd.org/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=254&dataid=274&FileName=Yupik_Eskimo_Dictionary_Vol_1.pdf
I'm yup'ik and hate being called Inuit.@@ruthnanalook7566
@@ruthnanalook7566 I'm yup'ik as well and I very much prefer to be called Eskimo over Inuit. We aren't Inuit, we are Yup'ik. I'm not gonna expect every person to immediately know what tribe I am. Eskimo is fine to generalize us if you ask me. We have "white" and "black" and "Asian" to generalize people. A Scotsman doesn't want to be called Irish. A Japanese man wouldn't want to be called Chinese. What are they gonna call us? Browns? I like Eskimo. So what if it means netter of snowshoes or eater of meat (depends of your source)? It's better than being called a member of a ethnic group I have no relation to.
I love how he refrees to them as Eskimos right after he said they are insulted by that word. 2:33
This is also misinformation. The Inuit don't like to be called Eskimo. This has led much of the world to start calling all tribes Inuit. We dont even have the same language. Inuit means "the people" to them. Yup'ik means "the people" or "real person" to my people. I hate being called Inuit. I don't mind being called Eskimo by someone who doesn't know what tribe I am
If you couldn't tell if a white person was Scottish or Irish, you would call them white or something along those lines. A Scotsman doesn't like being mistaken for Irish but doesn't bat an eye when you call them white. Many Eskimo peoples view this the same way now. The Inuit obviously are happy about it but we aren't.
2:58 Sea water !!! Instead of sea otter 😅
Those are the biggest tusks I've ever seen on a sea water.
Wow, build a big house in 2 days with free materials? What a deal!
‘Cold enough to freeze the balls off…’ a pool table?
…I know right, lmao
cold enough to freeze the balls off of a brass monkey
I thought it was about to make a puerile joke
Nice save on the narrator’s part 😂
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I like crushed ice or shaved ice. AND the soft chewy ice !
WARM is a relative term I'm that the inside of Igloos are warmer than the outside.
If it gets above 32°F inside an Igloo they become uninhabitable due to melting of the snow.
Answer, snow is naturally insulating. When I went through Northern Warfare training, we would make a igloo by cutting blocks out of the snow. Then fitting them together with a small hole at the top called the king block, you make a shelf about 8 inches to a foot higher than the floor. We then put aa single candle in the middle of the floor, with pine boughs on the shelf to keep us off the snow. The temp inside would be just above freezing, sealing the seams of the blocks. Its a great nights sleep.
So you continue to call them Eskimo then you grouped them all to one group the Inuit. Forgetting the yupik, inupiat, aleut, athabaskan, or any other native group in that region. The name is from the innu-aimun word ayaskimew meaning a person who laces snowshoe or assimew in innu meaning she laces snow shoe. It was at something used to refer to the Mi'kmaq people and is also used to refer to the husky, malamute, and Eskimo dog.
They also call themselves 'Eskimo' from the French Esquimaux (eaters of raw meat). So don't be so politically correct when even the Eskimos call themselves Eskimos.
Cause it's a. I not a real person talking
Yup'ik here, not Inuit. Hate being called Inuit. Call me an Eskimo before Inuit. In fact, I can net snowshoes and I eat raw meat often (sushi is my favorite thing on this planet). I'm Eskimo and I'm Yup'ik
Also, Athabaskans aren't considered Eskimo's, withholding the whole stigma surrounding the word. I'm part Athabaskan as well (my father is half Yup'ik and half Athabaskan). Apparently we are defined as Athabaskan Indians even though that word "Indian" is a no-go now as well. The Tlingit and Haida are considered Indians instead of Eskimos as well. Something to do with being more closely related to groups such as the Navajo (which isn't even their tribes original name) and other similar ethnic groups.
Very informative video, I wanted to knew how those people stayed warm.
…I still want to know, lol
"Cold enough to freeze the balls of a pool table!" I was more expecting "bear," but pool table will do.
.... or brass monkey! LOL I never heard of "pool table" analogy before.
Am amused by the sea water.
O.K. Sooo..Since I've got nothing else better to do so I write. When I was around 10 years old I loved the snow, (when I was young, ignorant and foolish), It just so happened that our neighbor across the street had plowed his driveway from a particularly heavy snow storm the night before and "planted it" across that street and onto our property. The following day, I witnessed this HUGE pile of snow. A long story short, I started digging at the base of this "pile" and continued further into this mound until I had cleaned out enough snow in which to inhabit it. Hell, I didn't know a thing about igloos at the time, but proceeded. Eventually, I carved-out enough snow inside to make it comfortable for two people to occupy and I'll never forget that this was where I started smoking cigarettes, (both my Friend and I because we didn't want our parents to know what we were doing). If I re-call, it was very warm and comfortable inside since the icing inside, (from our own breath and a flashlight) lined and insulated that pile of snow. Fun memories of which I never hope to replicate. That same pile which stood there WELL in to June of that year finally had to be kicked down because the green grass was growing up around it and made for a difficult lawn mowing experience. Oh, and this was in Southeast Michigan ! Go figure!
Who ever told you Igloos are made of ice??? They are made of snow blocks!!!
You can make them out of ice!🤣
If you live in -50 celcius they are made of ice. The best are made of ice
I thought snow was air trapped in ice crystals, therefore snow is form of ice. It's not wrong to call it ice. Sleet and hail are also forms of ice.
@@k2peak360 wet snow dry snow powder snow. Only certain types of frozen water are suitable for building igloos🙄
@@mightyriver5017 that's not what I was debating. I didn't make any comment about what igloos are made of all I said was that snow is just air surrounding frozen water crystals (ice) , therefore it's not wrong to say snow is ice because it is a form of ice.
Still want to know about the interior ice walls that are constantly above freezing and must melt.
I know right! I saw a guy on here that had a wood stove in his. The burning question!
“Freeze the balls of a pool table!”….lol
What he didn't say is why they don't melt from the inside out. That's what I want to know.
Animal Called Sea Water....oh my heavens.....Cannot even get an animal's name correct.
🤣
Doesn’t seem like a real intelligent person
It's an AI not a real person narrating
I can promise you the AI narrating this is a billion times smarter than you and your public school education.
@Jimbo0341usmc it can't even do imitating or mimicking a 2yr old can do that.
I was laughing at the end when he said, "questions that come to your mind at the time of insomnia after midnight".... lol He is absolutely right. That question just came to my mind at 12:08 am because I couldn't sleep, and so I searched it.
I am still waiting for "sea waters" to return to Ventura county.
…they first have to find a suitable breeding pair, lol
awesome video.
I could put up with the word "Eskimo," but the marine mammal called "sea water" is too much. Was it written by AI or what?
We used to make one as kids. We would have to shovel the walks till it was about 5 feet tall then pack it down and then carve it out. It took most of the day but we could make enough room for a couple of friends. Once you were inside and out of the wind it was comfortable enough to stay all day. I never got frostbite and I’m still here. Also I’ve camped in the woods in winter and surprisingly it’s not too bad.After a day or two you can actually walk around with your coat open. Last time it was about 10f. Snowing but comfortable. When the trip was over going into a restaurant on the way home it felt so HOT. I was drinking water like crazy. My body had gotten so used to the cold. It was like an oven there.
Sea OTTER!!!
I found this very interesting and informative. Not sure why 40% gave it a thumbs down??
Because it's Ai and has mistakes
Igloos are not made of ice. They are made from dense pack snow.
Got many details wrong, in this video " Have your act together, next time"
Can they get cable service?😮
no, just satellite
Well it’s not after midnight, but really enjoyed your video. I’m wondering how many Eskimos are there?
LOL DID U EVER SEE FARE SIDE!!!!! THE POLER SAID," TO ANTHER POLAR BEAR , " I LOVE THESE, (IGLOO) , THEY ARE WONDERFUL, HARD ON THE OUTSIDE, AND WARM N GOOEY IN INSIDE!!!!!!!!!!!
The obvious: an igloo or any other structure for that matter blocks the wind. Critical for winter survival.
The sea water looks like a really good swimmer
Ice, which is frozen water, would start melting at temperature above 0°C. How could air temperature inside an igloo be 10 to 15°C without melting the igloo's ice wall is beyond me.
You are mixing Temperature with Quantity of Heat. Since the outdoor temperature is so cold, you need way more than a room at 10C to melt the igloo's walls. As an example: If you put your hand in a bucket with hot water (let's say 90C) you are going to burn WAY more than when putting off a match which burns at 700C. This is because the amount of heat in the bucket is way more than the match's.
Having built both igloos and snow cave neither is warm but I would rather spend the night at 32 degrees and out of the wind then at much lower temperatures outside.
@@wysiwyg2489 Still don't get it . The inside is 10 degree - so the inside must be melting.
@@erikacsizmadia2863 Fill a glass with 12 oz of water and light a match underneath. The match temperature is approx 700C, let me know when the water starts boiling (it will never happen because the amount of heat is too low, regardless of the temperature). The opposite happens inside the igloo, although the temperature may be high enough to melt the water, it does not do it because there is too little heat to melt the amount of ice.
@@erikacsizmadia2863 It does melt a little, but quickly refreezes and forms a tile like surface of ice. When the people go outside of it, and don't have a fire, it becomes solid again. So... yes it does freeze, but not all the way through. I live in a cold climate, and in the spring, when it gets warmer and the snow starts to melt, it can take weeks for it all to melt, even when the temperature has been above freezing.
Good information!!! Thank you
Relatively warm. 🥶
Cold enough to freeze "The balls of a pooltable" 🤣
Ikr, lmao
It retains heat and a constant temp not dropping from outside temp.
“From a long time ago, until now” 😭💀
Specifically speaking of course... 😂
But what about the Dogs Left outside?
Tells us that Eskimo is a no no word. Continuous to say Eskimo?
Same thing I was saying
LOL righT?? was sO confused abt that toO 😂
The narrator states Eskimo is known more widely than Inuit. Dang does everything need to be so p.c.???
*Continues
@@mightyriver5017it doesn’t matter if it’s “widely accepted”, if it’s wrong & the people who are being named don’t like it, you don’t do it anymore
Sea waters, by the way, are extinct. And if the narrator believes eskimos/Inuit don’t like the term Eskimo why on earth does he use it? 2 minutes would have sufficed this video.
Sea waters I’m assuming are sea otters. Not sure where you get your information from that they are extinct, they most certainly are not. I see them daily running up and down the banks and beaches and feeding in the sea where I live.
Sea waters are extinct? Hmmm.
Can't find an animal or fish called sea waters. What is it?
Negative.
The Mediterranean, Black, Dead, & Red Seas consist of what's known as "sea water," & are certainly not extinct.
I think your usage of certain mushrooms, & magically mystical fairy dust from South America is impeding your grip on reality, mate...
“He’s got you there” - Rio Durant
WOW! Did you just call them Eskimo?
Yes it's a slur but he's being a little cheeky (Don't tell the Inuit)
It’s AI so who knows who programmed it
Okay let's start at the beginning. What type of fuel do they use for heating? I am not seeing any type of Forrest.
Traditionally, the Inuit used seal oil for heating and lamp lighting fuel. Nowadays, they would most likely use kerosene or another fuel they could buy from a store, though some of them might still use seal oil.
seal blubber and seal oil usually, sometimes whale/walrus oil/blubber :)
love your video, I learn something new
Are see waters related to sea otters?
sea otters see waters seeing what sea otters see when seeing what see otters see in sea waters😳
@@mightyriver5017 lol
Paleontologists have not found conclusive evidence to support this theory…lmao
@@mightyriver5017
Just read this again. lol
Exactilioso!
Excellent video. Thx
It's a Sea Otter not Sea Water.
…I don’t know, this guy really, really seemed to know what he was talking about, lmao
@@gardenvape4021. This is not “a guy”; it’s computer-generated narration.
@@SciTrekMan NO S**T! LMFAO
Scratching those pool balls will warm them through friction .
What I want to know is how come the igloos don't start to melt 🤔
Good question! It's pretty interesting actually. A have a few ways to try and make the principles make sense. First off, I want to start with explaining that the inside layer of the snow does start to melt and turns to ice, while the rest remains snow. So it does start to melt so I guess that removes the question but I'm still gonna try to explain why it doesn't melt further. Say it's -40⁰F which is -40⁰C outside. That's a large volume of air outside at an extreme cold. Far colder than freezing. It's attempting to penetrate your igloo and make the air inside cold. It'll do a far better job of it than your fire will at making the air outside warm. However your fire will win the fight because of the small amount of air in the igloo. Your fire spends all of its energy heating the air, which is flowing out the vent so the fire has to constantly heat the air. So that snow stays cold because that -40⁰F is winning. Another commenter on another post (sorry can't remember your name if you see this) explained it this way. Take a 12 ounce glass of water and try to boil the water with a match. The match burns at around 700⁰C, seven times the temperature water tends to boil at. It won't happen and, in fact, the majority of the glass will stay cold. If you throw a full plastic bottle of water into a fire, the plastic won't melt until the water inside has become hot enough for the plastic to melt. That one's a bit of the opposite reaction, seeing as the heat is in higher volume instead of the cold, but similar principles. Hope this helps!
Igloos are not made of ice, it's snow that they are made of. Snow is insulating and that's how Igloos keep you warm.
It's just semantics, ice and snow is literally identical on a molecular level. In fact, a thin layer of ice will form in igloos. Do there's plenty of ice.
But do things stay dry - bedding etc?
I lived for a week in a snow cave when ski touring in the Andes. At night, it was -25 C outside but 0 inside. Dig a cold air trap at the entrance (cold air sinks), smooth the dome with a rubber glove on the inside. If there are any convex features on it, it will drip. Cover the floor with a plastic sheet. Keep two small holes open for a little air circulation, you dont want to poison yourself with CO2.
Because they are not made of ice but of snow blocks, which are mostly air.
If it’ll freeze the ball’s off a pool table us poor men are screwed.
They acknowledge that "Eskimo" is a derogatory term, and say they prefer "Inuit", and yet they continue to use the derogatory term instead of Inuit...
Weird because I prefer Eskimo over Inuit. I'm Yup'ik
Is the Igloo strong enough to keep polar bear out?
Absolutely not
@akbillers5686 sleep with one eye open and a 30.06
Yo, what up my Eskimo
LMFAO!!!
Been building them since along time ago . Hell yeah.
Sea “water” is a spellcheck error.
10-15 degrees is warm?? lol.....I guess it is all relative, but it is still below freezing, and they have to keep wearing all of their clothing inside...
compared to -50*C or -70*C then 15*C is warm :)
Where do they get firewood from when there no trees there?
That’s hilarious....theres more than one source of heat especially in a resourceful culture like they had, seal blubber was rendered and the oil was lit. Google it.
Hopefully the smell and heat are not mutually excluding
Evidently they burn pool balls .😊
The poo of grass eating animals has no smell after it has dried out. Canadian geese come in mind
@@stick9648 lmao
If there is no wood, what do they burn in a fire?
good xplanitation and one more thing cold dose not radiate either
Eskimos have not used igloos for many year.
Why do you continue to use the term Eskimo after explaining that they prefer to be described as Inuit?
where do sea water's live?
The weather is cold enough to freeze the balls of what…? 🤣
the balls of a pool table he said...
0:19 "The weather in the polar regions is cold enough to freeze the balls of a pool table" Scared me for a moment
How do you get a fire with no wood
Very interesting!
Inuit and Eskimo are different ethnic groups.
Thank you!!!!
First person I've seen who knows that not all Eskimos are Inuit. I'm Yup'ik and everyone tries to call me Inuit. Just call me Eskimo
@@akbillers5686 What a cool introduction! Yeah. Even as a kid, I felt something was wrong with the whole "Inuit, not Eskimo" logic. The Arctic is so vast and touches the U.S., Canada, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. Am I being told that all those people are from one tribe with only only language and only one word for people, Inuit?
We are not Eskimos. We are Inuit. The igloos are of snow not ice. The window is made from ice when there is a window.
Thank you ❤
How do you think an igloo would fare in an earthquake?
They’d just build another one
Shaken... & stirred.
Ancient engineering vs modern engineering
Certain types of ancient architecture modern architecture have no clue
This is a 2 min topic and not 8:21!
“Ice is naturally cold” thanks bro
So heat must be naturally hot!!😂
Why admit that calling them Eskimos is effectively an insult and then carry on doing it when you could have easily carried on calling them by their proper name which you stated is the Inuit! Just a thought!
Oh Yeah, An Animal Called "Sea Water "
Are You Kidding ? That Was A Joke Right ?
Snow it wasn't .
If you eat an abnormally high abundance of beans daily, you will stay remarkably warmer in the igloos. It is with high caution though, that you not have any open flames in said igloo, under this unique heating technique. Explosively catastrophic mushroom clouds may result!
Plus, you get free music and aroma.
@@garymathena2125 *cacophonous gas chamber
If this is an example of AI then..headslap.
No forest or trees in the Artic, then proceeds to build fire out of wood.
Can I do this?
Sea Otter!
"Since a long time ago and until now." 😂😂😂😂
"This animal is resorting to a very strange thing, which is air particles" LMAOOO this is 100% A.I. generated 🤣
Looks cosy
very nicely explained 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Yeah its possible! Thats why we also have Ice Hotels.
What's a sea water? When you show a sea "otter" and call it a sea water, I know that an AI reader doesn't understand the difference. Too bad you can't get a real person to narrate this so we wouldn't have to scratch our heads trying to figure out what the reader meant.
Hahahaha yea