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Why they didn't build their houses underground or at least half underground? That will be much easier to keep warm.
They have to keep a bonfire running for days to bury a body. What do you think it takes to dig a hole for a house then?
Permafrost melts. Houses in a swamp. \o/ http://www.epa.gov/climatestudents/impacts/signs/permafrost....
> people here regularly consume frozen meat Unless they eat it while it's still frozen, why is this noteworthy? Also: > Most people use outhouses, because indoor plumbing tends to freeze. This is due to their poverty, not the cold. If it was just cold there, as opposed to cold and impoverished, they could either keep water constantly running through the pipes, or, if that won't work, insulate them better, possibly wi…
They are. Try using your modern DSLR in even -10C for a day. You better bring some spare batteries with you.
If I were to go on a photo safari in such cold I'd bring a mechanical Leica range finder camera (possibly a model completely without any electronics) and film. At least as a backup.
>ymyakon earned its title as the coldest place on Earth when the mercury plunged to -90. Mercury doesn't plunge to -90 (C or F) because mercury has a melting point at -37.9 °F or -38.8 °C. This is a fairly common fallacy from people who aren't thinking through. Thermometers used in cold places usually have coloured alcohol as liquid, not mercury. I think most Western countries have actually got rid of mercury thermom…
> people here regularly consume frozen meat Unless they eat it while it's still frozen, why is this noteworthy? Also: > Most people use outhouses, because indoor plumbing tends to freeze. This is due to their poverty, not the cold. If it was just cold there, as opposed to cold and impoverished, they could either keep water constantly running through the pipes, or, if that won't work, insulate them better, possibly wi…
>and his camera freezing wasn't something I thought modern cameras were especially prone to They are. Try using your modern DSLR in even -10C for a day. You better bring some spare batteries with you. If I were to go on a photo safari in such cold I'd bring a mechanical Leica range finder camera (possibly a model completely without any electronics) and film. At least as a backup.
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They have to keep a bonfire running for days to bury a body. What do you think it takes to dig a hole for a house then?
You could build a home, live in it for a year, and eventually the heat from that home will act like the bonfire. You then remove the top soil (until you re-hit frozen), and then wait another year and rinse/repeat. Year upon year you dig down, until eventually you have another floor's worth of space, then the original house becomes the top/second floor, and the new "basement" becomes a new area. I would add that I wou…
We have a saying in Scandinavia: "There's no bad weather, only bad kleather (clothes)" :)
Visit us in summer in Australia, when in some of the cities the temperature during the day often exceeds human body temperature. There's only so many clothes you can remove :)
I've actually been in Sydney when it was like 46 degrees (record year or something). People just started walking into the Ocean
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Someone's cell rang while I was watching the film.
Dalke, care to explain this one to us non-natives? Sounds funny, is it like "film", "cell" and "watching" should be replaced by "movie", "mobile" and "netflixing"?
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Actually curious, would 70F on Mars with it's low air pressure feel the same as 70F on Earth (let's assume you somehow have a space helmet but no suit)?
It would feel warmer. Without [much] air there is little conduction to draw heat from the warmer skin. You would lose heat by radiation, but that happens on earth too. Conversely something at 50F would warm up slower (i.e. it would "feel" colder to it). You could think of it as a giant vacuum thermos.
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Dalke, care to explain this one to us non-natives? Sounds funny, is it like "film", "cell" and "watching" should be replaced by "movie", "mobile" and "netflixing"?
You missed 'rang' as well - cellphones don't have bells, they have speakers or other things which are skeuomorphs.
I live in Whitehorse, Yukon. Last week it was -37C for a few days, I rode my bike/walked to work every day. I've been out Caribou hunting in -48C snowshoeing around right near the Arctic Circle. Snag is just down the road, where it was once -63.9C (-83F) - the coldest temp ever recorded in North America.[1] I'm originally from Australia, so this kind of thing is Alien to me, and I think I do a decent job of explainin…
do you hate walking? or not mind it after proper preparation?
One of the reasons I moved up here was to be outside in the environment, so it's enjoyable to throw on my jacket and gloves and get out there in it and watch the seasons/daylight/weather change day-to-day.
Remember too that in summer the days are ~20 hours long and I'm surrounded by beautiful mountains...