WEBVTT - How Igloos Work 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.920 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray. 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:07.560 It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you should know 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:16.360 from house Stuff Works dot Com. Hey, and welcome to 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:19.280 the podcast. I'm Josh Clark with me as always as 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:22.840 Charles Demi, Chuck Bryant. Hello, sir, that makes this stuff 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:24.720 you should know? Right, that's right, unless I'm in the 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:27.080 wrong place. You're a little under the weather. Still, aren't 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:30.040 you just as sick as I was when we recorded 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:35.200 Fainting Goats? Not not ten minutes ago? Yes, so Chuck 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:37.760 hasn't been sick all week. It'll probably just be a 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:39.760 couple of days ago. Clear, if you have a robust 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:44.280 um immune system for a man of your age, remember 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:47.400 when you were actually sick for weeks and weeks like 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:51.000 in year one? Yeah, and I think like eighteen podcasts 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:53.040 were screwed up because I was just I could not 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:55.440 get better. I thought, you are those are the unhealthy day. 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.600 So you lead a much healthier lifestyle, much much healthier. 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:00.560 You're not. We don't need to check you into the 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.760 sanitarium like we had to back in the day. I'm 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:06.720 okay now I'm not. I've gotten over my consumption. Hopefully 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:11.200 you will very soon. I have all faith that you will. Right, So, Chuck, 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:14.959 while we're waiting for you to recuperate, I have I 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:19.240 want to talk to you about technology, specifically some of 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:25.080 the oldest technology known demand clothes. Clothing is technology. Yeah, so, 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:29.520 I think, Chuck, probably more than anything else, the thing 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:34.560 that defines humanity is our desire and our ceaseless striving 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:39.039 to become more than more than human, to take ourselves 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:44.720 out of the rat race of evolution, the crapshoot of genetics, 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:48.120 and to basically take hold of our biological destiny. Right. Yeah. 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:50.840 We sort of did that with clothing many many, many 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:53.600 years ago. Yeah, so that's that's what we do. We 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:55.800 use technology to do that, and clothing was one of 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:59.680 the earliest ones. Because we are a subtropical species humans 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:02.920 are We're not supposed to live in really cold places, right, 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:05.600 but we do. We've managed to migrate from you know, 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:09.200 somewhere near the equator where we can run around without 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:13.160 clothes too. Yeah, because we're what they call the sexy 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:18.640 epochs um to some colder climbs. Thanks to close along 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.560 the way, we um figured out that we could use 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:26.600 hammers and or use stones for hammers and other tools. Um, 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:29.480 and we figured out that we could build our our 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:32.560 own shelters make things warm on the inside. Right, So 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:36.399 eventually over the years we figured out enclosed heating systems. 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:40.600 And then now thanks to all this, we have swedes, right, involvos. 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:44.400 Involvos thanks to the swedes. So the technology evolvos are 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:48.000 a direct result of the technology of clothes in a 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:50.960 weird way. You're exactly right. But somewhere along the line 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:56.919 there was a branch of that linear development of thought 0:02:57.000 --> 0:03:00.919 and talent of technology all the way to enclosed shelters 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:04.680 that house swedes, where somebody figured out that you can 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:08.440 make it enclosed shelter out of blocks of hard packed snow. 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:13.080 And we know those today as ig loose. Yes, And 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:18.280 do you know what the Inuit called the igloos? Your question? 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:20.079 That's a good that's a great That was a good 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:22.839 question though, because, yeah, it's an Inuit word for what 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:26.920 believe it means snow house. So the Inuits are just 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:31.519 among the most pragmatic speakers on the planet, very cut 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:34.600 and dry. Yeah, they call their snow houses igloos, right, 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:37.560 that just makes outter sense. Yeah, we're talking about the 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:41.880 Canadian tundra, Josh, and they, uh, you know, tps and 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.280 castles and other things that were being built were all 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:46.760 well and good. If you're in in Europe, or if 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:48.760 you are in a warmer climate, let's say, like the 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:51.840 Florida Panhandle, you don't have to take through of ice 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:54.600 to quarry stone exactly. But if you're in the Canadian tundra, 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:59.760 those aren't really good options. So, uh, snow, hard packed snow, 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:03.920 but aim the masonry, if you will. For the Inuits, 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.760 let's go ahead and get to this Eskimo thing. Yeah, yeah, um. 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:11.520 Eskimo and Inuit are one and the same. There are 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.000 two different terms for the same group of people. These 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:20.719 people who um inhabit areas spanning from Siberia to Alaska, Canada, 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:25.960 Greenland um thirty five hundred mile range, right, which makes 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:29.920 them the most widely spread Aboriginal group on the planet. Yeah. 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:32.680 An Aboriginal, for those of you don't know, doesn't just 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:37.320 refer to the Aborigines in Australia. It's any um any 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:41.880 any any indigenous indigenous the first people in that region, yes, 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:45.200 or would be Aboriginal, Yes, that was the ones who 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:49.640 get pushed around by the Europeans aboriginal um. And if 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:52.800 you want to insult in Inuit, you just go ahead 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:55.560 and call them an eskimo. Yeah, apparently it's a derogatory 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:59.359 term because it was a term that the white man gave. 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.800 It was another tribe, was it, Yeah, but it was 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:06.160 an outside group. I was just figure it's a white man. Yeah, 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:09.520 so it was another group named them eskimos, which um, 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:12.599 it was thought to mean eaters of raw meat or 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:15.120 raw blubbers what I've heard as well, blubber. But then 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:18.479 they later thought that eschi moment to netch snowshoes, to 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:22.120 build snowshoes, and linguists can't prove it, although that's kind 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:27.040 of what they think. But in the glory that is language, 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:31.119 things can go from their original meaning to a popular meaning, 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:35.640 and it's old meaning is meaningless. It's only what people 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:38.719 think or use right, right, which is how l o 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:42.760 l is a word, that's right. So we're going to 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:45.760 refer them, refer to them as Inuit, because that's the 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:47.520 that's the way to do it. We don't want to 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:51.320 alienate anybody, no, especially the Inuit, because they are tough 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:55.680 people and they have survived for many, many, many years 0:05:55.720 --> 0:06:00.520 in conditions that don't seem to be survivable, especially way 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:03.479 back in the day. But they made it through and 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:05.800 they're thriving actually too. We'll get to that in a second. Yeah, 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:08.080 I was surprised to see that, but um, chuck a 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:11.320 couple of other facts about these uh the Inuit, which 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:15.080 means the people, right, So they call their snowhouses they lose, 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:19.279 they call themselves the people. It's just it's very spare. 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:21.400 I could have been a get anyone, I think. I 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:26.800 think so too. Keep things simple, fall down, goat, Yeah, 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:31.159 so they don't. They they have never really established a 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:35.640 formal system of government. It's the family is generally the 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:40.040 the center of the community. Yeah. Um, the males are 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:42.839 the figure heads. Yeah. No, class system is pretty cool. Um. 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:47.040 And basically, if you're a boy, you're a hunter. If 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:50.080 you're a girl, you marry a hunter and hopefully produce 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:54.640 more boy hunters because the everyone's equally responsible for coming 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:58.320 up with food and I imagine every family, um is 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:01.680 That's what that means. Every family is equally responsible for 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:04.320 contributing to the food in the community. Yeah. Yeah, so 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:08.400 the more boy hunters the better. So, um, fascinating group, 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:13.440 and they have never lived in it loses permanent shelters. Huh. Well, yeah, 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:16.320 And it's important that you mentioned hunting because clearly, if 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:19.840 you are living on the Arctic tundra, there's one thing 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:21.560 that you're probably not gonna have, and that is a 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:25.400 vegetable garden. So they are very carnivorous as a as 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:28.200 a people. They do a lot of hunting. They did 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:31.640 a lot of hunting of seals, which is probably they 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:35.960 were called blobberry working bloober eaters. And where there are seals, 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:39.880 is gonna be a lot of ice sea ice, Yeah, 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:45.240 which leads to another peculiar trait of the Inuit. Peculiar 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:50.480 meaning unique. Um kayak angst. Remember we talked about that 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.040 on the webcast like a long time ago, remember that, 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:55.280 And everything was cut off in the middle of it, 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:58.720 and like it was get Kawasaki day. Oh yeah, And 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:00.640 I wrote a blog post on thing like as I 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:03.280 was saying before I was cut off, And kayak angst 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:07.520 is this, um, it's a it's a condition specific only 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:12.440 to the Inuit, where an Inuit males too, where you 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:17.160 become afraid of going out to hunt seals in a 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:20.880 kayak usually following an episode where you've been up for 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:24.920 several days. The sun very rarely sets because at summertime, 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:26.920 which is the only time you're when when you can 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:30.640 hunt seal really um, so you have a loss of 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:35.880 sense of time. You're completely without any landmark or reference point. 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:38.720 It's all just horizon and sea ice. So you're without 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:42.720 any no bearings, no sense of time, and you doze 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.680 off and wake up, and you have no idea how 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:48.319 long you've been asleep, how far you've drifted, and you 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:50.520 may be out there drifting for the rest of your life. 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:53.480 And you finally do find land again, you make your 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:57.719 way back to your community, and you become terrified at 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:01.760 the thought of getting back in a kayaking kayak angst Yeah, 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:03.760 specific only to the Innuit. I don't remember that at all. 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:06.120 That's so weird. Well you should read my blog post. 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:08.240 I usually have an inkling, but that that one doesn't 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:13.040 ring true for me. So, uh, the Inuit did not 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:15.720 live in Iglas Josh as he said, that is not true. 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:19.360 People might think that um Innuit tribes just had it 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:21.160 loose all over the place and that was their house. 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:24.240 They were really hunting shelters. Yeah, it's like a hunting 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:29.240 camp like um, Robin Williams, uh, fishing camping, insomnia, yeah, 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:33.840 except nutty because of no sleep and two yeah, well 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:37.360 al Pacino was yeah, that's right. That was Christopher Nolan. 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:41.480 You know, yeah, he's just amazing. Yeah, although you had 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:45.520 inception problems, right, it was really just Ellen Page get 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.560 her out of the movie. You're okay. It wasn't even 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:50.559 her necessarily, although I'm not a big fan of hers. Um, 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:52.600 I think she's a she's a good actress and everything, 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:56.360 but you know, I'll never figure it for Juno. But um, 0:09:56.640 --> 0:10:01.720 it was more her character. Like clearly character was put 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:05.840 in afterward because the producers were like, or the studio 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.440 execs are like, wait, what is going on? So they 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:11.400 wrote in Ellen Page's character to explain everything to everybody 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:13.840 at each step so that you can keep up with 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:18.720 this really dense movie. You love getting me wound up 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:23.679 at that inception around John So all right, where were 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:27.040 we the innuits? They were hunting camps, like we said, 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:31.360 and uh, they're still around today and they're booming. Um 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:34.600 not igloos. Actually they're they're not quite as common. But 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:37.840 they did a study who was just a human rights 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:41.920 program in Canada. In Canada, Department of Canadian Heritage said 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:44.600 that there could be as many as sixty eight thousand, 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:52.840 four hundred Inuit in Canada and only in Change. So um, yeah, 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:57.479 they're they're booming as a people. Pretty cool. So they're thriving. Igloos. 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:01.760 Are were never um, permanent shelter or structures for them, 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:05.400 and um they had kayak angst One other thing too, 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:08.200 Eskimo kisses. Yeah, what's the deal there? So you know 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:10.480 it's like rubbing the tip of your nose. Yeah, it's cute, 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:14.480 it is. It's not entirely accurate though, I'm sure, but 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:17.800 they did kiss with their noses. Yeah, but it was, Um, 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.720 you would put your notes, your nostrils to the face, 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:24.840 usually around like the cheeks, right below the eyes. Um. 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:27.559 The you would put your nose to a loved one's 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:30.280 face like that and inhale deeply. And that was that's 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:33.520 the real Eskimo kiss for are Inuit kiss? Interesting, isn't it? 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.600 Yeah they had it wrong though, you know how it right? 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:42.080 The French Yeah, they figured it out and everyone was like, oh, yeah, 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:44.440 this is the way to kiss. Forget that no stuff, 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:47.360 all right, So let's talk about igloos. For a second, 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:51.400 they're built out of blocks of ice. They are not 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.440 built out of the kind of snow that you probably 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:58.760 have in your front yard in Ohio in the wintertime. 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.600 It depends on how out what it was. Yeah, although 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:08.319 my cousin in law, Alex Schreiber, Ohio State University student, 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:12.920 built an igloo last winter. He and his buddies. Check 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:18.480 this thing out, dude, nice, Wow, I should post this. 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:22.000 I'm gonna get to post this. It's like seven ft 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:24.959 tall at least. It's huge, and it's it's like really 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:27.559 well constructed. He's sitting on top of it and it's 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:29.400 not caving in. If I built an igloo that, you know, 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:31.719 it wouldn't last very long. Pretty cool though. That is 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:36.040 a backyard in Ohio too. Yeah. It's great day, leafless 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:39.080 trees everywhere. Yeah. Yeah, he and his buddies, you know, 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:43.800 clearly had enough boredom in time to build this. Alex Schreiber, 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.440 huh yeah awesome. Is he listening right now? I hope 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:48.839 so yeah he listens. And I told I get my 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:51.000 heads up. Yeah, we have to post that. He's gonna 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:55.080 right back and say, don't mention the iglu don't they 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:59.240 always yeah, so chuck. Even though like um say, hunting 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:02.800 expedition now or even a single hunter went out and 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:07.360 built an igloo. Um that that it wasn't just the 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:10.600 single igloo every single time. Sometimes they lived in them 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:14.160 for longer periods. Sometimes more people lived in a group, 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:17.600 and they would actually um create compounds out of igloos 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:21.720 by you know, melding them together, creating walkways, breeze waste. 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:25.920 And there were some that um basically igloo cities that 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:29.480 came about where you I think they would have like 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:33.160 halls for banquets and beasts and like balls and stuff 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:39.559 like like Inuit balls held in um uh, well, an igloo, 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:41.640 a big large igloo. Pretty cool. Though I didn't know this. 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:43.720 I had no idea. I always pictured just the single 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:46.000 and I also thought they lived in them. So this 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:49.199 was this one. I was controlled like the totem poles. 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:51.559 And we should probably also while we're just like busting 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:56.040 things left and right. Um Chili, Willie, helpful little penguin 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:58.440 from the He was so cute. I went and watched 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:02.080 when to refresh my memory. Willy, he was very cute. 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:04.920 He wasn't I I thought he would be mischievous or 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:07.760 I remembered him being mischievous, like Woody Woodpecker, who was 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:11.440 a jerk. Um. No, Chili Willie was a very helpful, cute, 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:14.839 sweet little baby penguin. Um. And his little igloo with 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.160 the typical igloo that you think of a dome with 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:21.240 like a rounded entryway pretty much dead on. Yeah, but 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:24.520 it looks like your your cousin. They don't, uh cousin, 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:27.360 cousin in law. It looks like he he knows, he 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:31.480 knows what he's doing. Alex h Matthew, No, I said, nephew. 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:35.080 Oh sorry, Uh yeah. There's no penguins in Alaska either, 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:37.760 so that's the other problem as well. Chili will he 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:41.000 was not accurate, but cute. Nonetheless, No, but the igloo 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:44.400 he built was accurate. That's right. And Josh, since we're 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:48.440 talking igloes. Um, here's here's what a a naive person 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:51.400 might say. Why in the world, if you're freezing cold 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:54.440 out in Alaska, would you build a room out of 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:58.240 ice and snow to sit in? How warm could that be? 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:00.960 It would take somebody pretty I easy to say something 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:02.880 like that, though, you know how warm it could be, 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.320 up to forty degrees warmer than it is outside. Of 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:08.720 the iglu, buddy, Yes, And why chuck, where these furnaces 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:12.360 coming from? Well, your body, for one, human body is 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:16.200 a pretty good furnace. And um, when you cut down 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:18.080 the wind chill, you're gonna take a big bite out 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.000 of the cold. And you put a couple of warm 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:23.360 Inuit bodies in there, and imagine these are big tough dudes. Anyway, 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:27.320 they're probably just like exuding warmth. That'll it'll you know, 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:31.160 radiate out and insulate. The igla will insulate the heat 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:34.240 in it traps the heat. Yeah. So I mean, if 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:38.440 you're talking negative forty degrees, that's really cold. But if 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:41.160 you could bring that up to zero, that's still cold, 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:44.600 but it ain't like negative forty, which is the same 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:51.120 in Celsius san fahrenhegh. Oh Yeah, yeah, good point. So, uh, 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:54.440 the snow is an insulator, right, Yeah, it cuts down 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:57.600 on the on the wind um of the melting. That's 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:01.080 the other thing too. Yeah, when when you build an igloo, 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:03.640 and don't worry, we're about to give you step by 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:05.680 step instructions on how to build an igloo. We should 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:08.800 get alex on the orange um. At the very least 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:12.160 you can verify it, right, that's right. Um, when you 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:16.240 build an igloo, you uh, the sun when it does 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:19.240 come out, or if it's out the whole time, especially 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:22.040 during the day. Uh, it'll heat up enough possibly to 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:24.880 melt some refreeze at night, which is what you want, 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:29.440 melt refreeze, and um, you you your body heat also 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:31.920 may melt it from the inside out something. And then 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:34.360 when you go out to hunt, it'll refreeze every time 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:37.560 more likely, it's probably the more likely scenario. So this 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:41.920 um thawing and freezing and thawing and freezing basically turns 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:47.040 the igloo into this really um strong and insulated structure. 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:51.440 And about a boom bought a being. You got yourself 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:54.760 an insulated place to fish or at least to bunk 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:57.280 down while you're fishing. So, Josh, are we at the 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:00.440 point where we tell people how to build englu? I 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:03.920 don't think we can delay it any longer. Oh we can. Okay. 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:07.480 You mentioned that iglu igloos are kind of out of 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:10.200 fashion with the Inuit these days. Yeah, not as common, 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:16.040 but they are becoming increasingly common at a ski resorts apparently. Yeah, 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:19.399 if you are such a ski junkie and that you 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:22.280 want to just basically wake up, roll out of bed, 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:26.840 put on your skis and start skiing immediately. They have igloos, 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:30.680 usually on the slopes um that you can rent igloo 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:33.000 villages that you can run an igloo overnight or for 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:35.720 as long as you stay there. Pretty sweet, huh. Or 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:38.600 if you're, you know, feeling squirrely, you can build on yourself. 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:42.640 True down is that a segue? It is if you're 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:45.800 if you've done it before, like your cousin in law, 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:49.040 it could take as little as an hour. If you 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:52.120 don't know what you're doing, it could take six or more. Yeah. 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:54.160 I want to ask Alex actually how long it took 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:57.840 because the first pictures are are at night, so it 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:00.840 clearly took them longer than a few hours. Yes, Like 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:02.600 when I saw that someone could build one an hour, 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:04.560 I don't know about that. I don't believe that. I'm 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:08.000 pretty sure if you were raised as an Inuit, and 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:10.560 you were, I don't know, in your twenties, I'll bet 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:13.679 you could build an igloo in an hour. Yeah. And 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:16.560 it looks like Alex and his buddies used a tub, 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:19.840 like a shallow plastic tub to pack the snow down. 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:22.600 And that's smart. Inform the blocks. Yeah, so the way 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:24.639 we're going to teach you how to do it requires 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:27.000 a snow shovel, which looks an awful lot like a 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:30.359 dry wall or not a snow shovel. It does require 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:32.800 a snow shovel, but a snow saw which looks an 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:36.160 awful lot like a dry wall saw. Um. And basically 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:37.879 you want to go find some ice, like you were 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:43.920 saying you normally wouldn't find ice or snow. Um, that's 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:46.840 just fallen. It's gonna work for an igloo. Yeah, you 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:52.080 want to find um, wettish, hard packed like that's more solid, 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:54.760 the better snow. Right, And what do you want to 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:56.600 do with that snow chuck? Well, you want to use 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:59.200 a little saw. You want to cut large blocks? Um, 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:01.359 I guess you can very the size, but they recommend 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:05.200 in the Complete Wilderness Training Guy, they recommend three ft long, 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:09.760 fifteen inches high, eight inches deep. Once you get your blocks, 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:12.320 you want to start building, Uh, you know, put your 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:16.320 foundation in a circle and start building up that foundation, 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:19.800 working your way up as you go, decreasing in size 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:24.199 as you go. And you also have to shape it 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:26.520 at a at a slant obviously, or you're just gonna 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:33.280 have a ice block tower and not a domed roof, correct. Yeah, yeah, 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:35.280 you um, you want to shape it at a slant 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:36.560 like you said, but you also want to make the 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:40.720 blocks decrease in sizes you get bigger decrease and and overlap. 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:44.480 See you you did some some brickwork, and that's sort 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:47.679 of the same principle there. I never built anything that 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:49.600 was tall enough that I had to really build it 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:52.000 back to stagger it. And when I did, it was 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:56.320 like the pre made castle rock wall that's designed to 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:59.120 set back right right, so it didn't require any thought. 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:01.840 But yes, if you if you kind of have something 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:07.680 that's technically at a slight incline, it will provide structure 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:10.320 if you can get it to connect as a dome 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:15.240 like Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome exactly, very super strong structure. 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:17.520 So as you're building this and then you start to 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:19.959 make the dome part, it should support itself if you've 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:22.199 done it right, but you can always use sticks on 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:25.679 the inside to support it temporarily until you get the 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:29.520 dome complete, and then it's all pressing against each other. Uh, 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:31.119 And then how do you finish it off with with 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:34.440 the top. Well, you want to take a chunk of ice. 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:38.280 You're what you're gonna have is this perfect dome, some 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:41.600 variation of a perfect dome. Um. And there's gonna be 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:44.200 a central hole in the top, right, Yeah, like a 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:47.000 little chimney. Yes, um, but you actually want to plug 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:49.320 this one. That's right. This is one chimney you want 0:20:49.320 --> 0:20:52.320 to plug. And you take you cut another block that's 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:54.920 going to be bigger than the hole, and you want 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:58.400 to shape it so that it basically fits this this 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:02.280 hole that's left over, um, which should be something like 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:07.200 an octagon maybe roughly l shape, UM. And you want 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:10.119 to fit it in there perfectly. You want to cut it, 0:21:10.359 --> 0:21:12.120 shape it, put it in there so it's in there 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:17.160 perfectly packed in there. Because this is your load bearing keystone. Basically, 0:21:18.000 --> 0:21:20.639 as long as that thing's intact, everything else should be fine. 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:23.680 You'll lose that, you're in a lot of trouble. Um. 0:21:23.760 --> 0:21:27.520 And then after that, you're ready to start insulating it, 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:30.919 filling in the cracks. You want to shovel snow on 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:34.040 top of everything, and the loose snow that is what 0:21:34.080 --> 0:21:36.399 you want. Now you want to work with it, and 0:21:36.440 --> 0:21:39.320 you're going to use some insulated gloves on your hands 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:42.000 or else you're going to lose your hands to gangreen 0:21:42.119 --> 0:21:45.480 in a few days. Um. And you fill in the 0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:47.879 cracks with the snow. You just kind of smooth it 0:21:47.920 --> 0:21:50.320 over with your hands so that the snow packs into 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:53.320 the cracks, and all of a sudden, this um separate 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:57.320 block pattern is lost and you have a basically a 0:21:57.400 --> 0:22:01.040 smooth dome is what you're going for. Yeah, And at 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:03.000 the end, it's it's a lot harder to try and 0:22:03.040 --> 0:22:05.040 build a door into your thing. It's easier just to 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:07.640 build a dome and then cut your door out after 0:22:07.640 --> 0:22:09.959 it's finished. There's a good point. And UM, A lot 0:22:10.040 --> 0:22:13.880 of people, UM, a true aficionado of the igloo would 0:22:13.880 --> 0:22:17.080 build a little L shaped entryway tunnel because that will 0:22:17.119 --> 0:22:19.480 cut down on the wind coming in even more because 0:22:19.480 --> 0:22:22.560 the wind has to turn a corner, right. Um. So 0:22:22.800 --> 0:22:25.800 you cut that hole in whatever shape you want, whether 0:22:25.880 --> 0:22:28.679 a key shape UM or a lot of people use 0:22:28.760 --> 0:22:32.760 like a tent shape and a frame, and you then 0:22:32.800 --> 0:22:35.440 you cover it with blocks. You make like an entryway 0:22:35.480 --> 0:22:37.760 shelter basically, And then like you said, you you might 0:22:37.800 --> 0:22:40.200 want to put it as an L. And then you 0:22:40.240 --> 0:22:43.600 dig a hole into the snow so that you can 0:22:43.640 --> 0:22:47.000 get into it. But basically you're kind of crawling into 0:22:47.600 --> 0:22:51.640 the entryway it looked like, right, Um. And then after 0:22:51.680 --> 0:22:54.760 that you get inside and there's a very vital step 0:22:54.840 --> 0:22:57.800