Well, in case you didn't know, it was a plastic bin and you pack it in with snow and you have
to pack it in like really, really deep.
You have to like take it and step on it and stuff like that.
And then you, so you start building it in like a circle.
So you first, you build the base and then you fill in the base full of those, those
blocks.
So you have one base and then you wait, wait.
So when you, once you pack it in, you basically turn it upside down and you just, it's almost
like building a sandcastle or what?
Yeah.
They're bricks, snow bricks.
Yeah.
They're bricks.
They turn into bricks and they're, they're really, really hard because what happens is,
um, yeah, so you build the base out of like these, these blocks and then you build on
top of it into like a dome.
It takes like eight hours.
It takes a long time.
But after that, you, you have to go into the igloo.
He doesn't realize, sorry, Adam, he doesn't realize that the camera's like literally watching
the entire time.
No, I got, so it takes eight hours to build the igloo.
Yeah.
But then you have to go inside the igloo to warm up and melt the ice inside the igloo.
So it seals it off.
Yeah.
It seals it off.
So it becomes like, like no air can go in or out, out of this ice.
So the only place air can get in is through the little entrance you make.
Right.
How do you make the entrance?
It's just, so like you have like the big dome, right, which is like, it's like four or five
feet high.
And then you have like a, just a small little, little archway out of these blocks.
And that, that's just basically entrance.
And you have to kind of like squeeze through, right?
So I got a question before you move on.
As you build a dome of ice, I mean, do you have smaller bins that you have to use or
is it just the same size?
It's the same size bin.
And what you do is like, how do you curve it so it doesn't like collapse?
Well, you can build, that's, that's a cool thing.
You can build like, say you have like a block, like just on a base here, you can, you can
build it slightly offset and you can just keep doing that to form a dome.
That's how, that's how like the Romans made arches basically.
So like the way Romans made arches and like the Eskimos made igloos was that basically
the same technology, the same architectural technology.
That's interesting.
Yeah.
But then if there's any cracks in the igloo, you just fill it up with snow and then you
have to go inside and stay inside so it melts the ice.
But a lot of, so when you say you go inside, are you talking about your body heat is what
you create?
Yeah, exactly.
Because it's a completely, it's like a, like a blanket, it's a completely insulated area.
And unfortunately a lot of times what happens is people will go to sleep and it'll snow
like a lot and it'll fill in that small little entrance you made and people will just suffocate
to death in an igloo.
Oh wow.
It happens a lot.
It happens a lot to people who are like, aren't experienced, right?
Or like sleeping in igloos.
They can't dig their way out?
Well, it's not even about digging their way out.
It's just they, they die in their sleep just because they're running out of oxygen.
Oh man.
Cause it just fills up with carbon dioxide and you're in, it doesn't have anywhere to
go.
So it's basically.
So how do you prevent that?
Is you have to poke little holes into your igloo, just like, just like, um, and like
four areas.
And you also have to do, you have to wait on the, on the top of the dome, on the top
of the dome.
Yeah.
Okay.
And you have to make sure the entrance is deeper than the igloo itself.
So you have a base and like a foot down the, the entrance would be like this.
So you'd enter into the igloo and then it would go up.
Oh, I see.
So that way, even if it snows, it doesn't fill up the entrance basically.
So you gotta, you gotta poke these air holes basically.
And then you're also suffocate.
What do you, how, what do you poke it with?
Just a, just a stick or a knife, whatever you got.
Yeah.
But it's actually, it gets really, really hot in an igloo at night.
Cause I slept in that igloo with like four other guys and it was like, you wouldn't even
be able to tell you were in like sub, sub degree weathers because it feels like there's
like a fireplace right next to you.
Cause it's so insulated.
Wow.
Yeah.
They were actually going to build ships out of like ice in world war II out of ice and
like sawdust.
It was called pyrite or something like that.
And there, because it's such a strong material, they're going to build ships out of it, but
then they just
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