Here's a recent video of the last survivor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayWPnm0JWG0
For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact
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Re: For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact
#72> having slept in the open in 40 degrees of frost I'm no scientist, but I don't believe frost forms until 32 degrees. Maybe this was a mistranslation...?
You should read that as -40 degrees - likely Celcius and not Fahrenheit you refer to. Funny thing is, -40 C = -40 F.
Re: For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact
#73> having slept in the open in 40 degrees of frost I'm no scientist, but I don't believe frost forms until 32 degrees. Maybe this was a mistranslation...?
Probably means minus 40 degrees. Which incidentally is the same in Celcius and Fahrenheit.
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#74> having slept in the open in 40 degrees of frost I'm no scientist, but I don't believe frost forms until 32 degrees. Maybe this was a mistranslation...?
I've seen the phrase in a Jack London story. That would be 40 degrees below freezing. For Celsius that would be -40C since freezing is 0C. For Fahrenheit that would be -8F (32 - 40).
Re: For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact
#75> having slept in the open in 40 degrees of frost I'm no scientist, but I don't believe frost forms until 32 degrees. Maybe this was a mistranslation...?
To me that reads as "-40 degrees Celsius" since in Celsius 0 degrees is exactly where water freezes.
Re: For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact
#76> having slept in the open in 40 degrees of frost I'm no scientist, but I don't believe frost forms until 32 degrees. Maybe this was a mistranslation...?
I guess they mean -40 °C (coincidently -40 °F) not +40 °F (4.4 °C).
Re: For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact
#77> having slept in the open in 40 degrees of frost I'm no scientist, but I don't believe frost forms until 32 degrees. Maybe this was a mistranslation...?
I think they've meant -40 C.
Re: For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact
#78> having slept in the open in 40 degrees of frost I'm no scientist, but I don't believe frost forms until 32 degrees. Maybe this was a mistranslation...?
I've seen the phrase in a Jack London story. That would be 40 degrees below freezing. For Celsius that would be -40C since freezing is 0C. For Fahrenheit that would be -8F (32 - 40).
1 °C = 1.8 °F (Not really correct because this actually means a temperature difference of...)
Re: For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact
#79The last 'first contact' with a group of Australian Aboriginals was made in 1984.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/lost-tribe-happy-i...
I had heard a version of that story where the brother who returned to the traditional life was believed to still be out roaming the desert, and if they saw smoke in the distance they knew it to be him but they'd stay away and leave him be.
That version of the story also had someone explained the terror of seeing a motor vehicle for the first time, followed by (relatively) fat people coming out - believed to be cannibals (how else could you get so fat?) - and their first sighting of a white man. That's quite a lot to take in over a few minutes.
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#80"When the warm days do arrive, though, the taiga blooms, and for a few short months it can seem almost welcoming." Hahaha. This guy has no idea what he's talking about. As someone who has been in the taiga in the summer, it's absolutely horrible. The air is alive with mosquitoes. There are clouds of them around you 24/7. The place is just permafrost and swamps. It's really pretty, but a miserable place to live. That'…
Depends where you go. Not all taiga is the way you describe (though there's certainly areas like that).
[source - lived in southern taiga for several years].