How Igloos Stay Warm Inside Despite Being Made of Ice!

Igloos refer to Eskimo's homes that are built using ice. These ice huts are incredible in design that made us all wander about their secret. Many have asked about how igloos can preserve temperature and provide warmth to Eskimos who live inside them despite being made of ice: the most cold thing in polar regions.
Eskimo, or Inuit, are fantastic people. People who can endure -50 degrees at Arctic zone, must be made of steel or simply live in igloos.

[Lizzy]

Igloos work and are engineered to retain heat. Brilliant idea by the wonderful Inuit people. 👏

[hazelpearson]

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.

[psychopathicunity]

LOL "They hate to be called Eskimo" Proceeds to call them Eskimos for rest of videoc😂

[jeffreyhoward]

AI has a lot to answer for. I’m getting really frustrated with the amount of inferior narration online to be honest.

[TERRYBIGGENDEN]

Is this AI generated? The animal first seen is a sea OTTER! Not a sea water! :-) What a hoot! :-)

[LadyYoop]

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.

[beckyshell]

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.

[anitakacs]

Igloos are made of snow blocks and not of ice. And snow contains air.

[Gwaithmir]

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.

[hayleyscocoabear]

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.

[dougtinsley]

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.

[B_L__N_K_K]

I love how he refrees to them as Eskimos right after he said they are insulted by that word. 2:33

[garymathena]

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.

[concerned]

‘Cold enough to freeze the balls off…’ a pool table?

[rickpiotz]

Wow, "since a long time ago." That's a long time.

[bx]

Wow, build a big house in 2 days with free materials? What a deal!

[andriaskharumlong]

2:58 Sea water !!! Instead of sea otter 😅

[ssake_IAL_Research]

"Cold enough to freeze the balls of a pool table!" I was more expecting "bear, " but pool table will do.

[robtangent]

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.

[chuck]

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!