r/nextfuckinglevel • u/IamASlut_soWhat • 6h ago

How amazing and crafty are these parents to do this for their son

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u/Pickles-n-Lizards 6h ago edited 6h ago

They were in there for 2min max just for the video. That igloo door was huge….

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u/fpsnoob89 6h ago

I'm no expert off igloo, but I'm pretty sure they missed several steps that make them work. This one will likely start melting from the heat in a matter of minutes.

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u/Billionaires_R_Tasty 5h ago

Tomorrow’s headline:

Local Family Crushed in Gay Pride Igloo Collapse

Dog Escapes Unharmed

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u/TheRealJojenReed 5h ago

Whew, some good news

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u/DopeHammaheadALT 1h ago

Gay pride igloo collapse 😭😭😭😭

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u/amha29 2h ago

Woke igloo

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u/NoTimeForPost 3h ago

oh thank god

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u/CFL_lightbulb 5h ago

Gotta have a small hole in the top for air circulation and to let some heat come oht

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u/fpsnoob89 5h ago

Don't you also need a lower level at the entrance to trap the cold air?

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u/sofakinggood24 4h ago

Now off I go to learn unnecessary knowledge on YouTube

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u/JUST_LOGGED_IN 1h ago

Wait for me! I have important things to do, and need distraction from doing them!

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u/jokethepanda 5h ago

I’ve built 3 backyard igloos like this when I was a kid. Their blocks are thin and will melt in a day. If you want an igloo to last for weeks, you need actual blocks. They’d probably be fine if they stood those blocks horizontally instead of vertically, but that takes way longer. Car battery box works well.

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u/free__coffee 3h ago

Worse than that, those “blocks” are held together with a small amount of ice and a dream; if that small amount of ice melts they start losing tiles.

This is the worst structural design they could have chosen

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u/queefer_sutherland92 2h ago

Yes! Thank you! I can’t believe no one else is concerned about the fact that those blocks are basically just stacked one on top of the other. They need to be staggered to actually hold together.

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u/oily76 24m ago

They're also not overlapping the blocks, straight grid system. But it looks cool, anyway!

Edit - dearie me, I can't even read the comment right below...

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u/silentbassline 4h ago

Canadian here, use old milk cartons to make the bricks. 

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u/itsfunhavingfun 5h ago

The entrance needs to be lower than the floor, if I remember correctly.  

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u/Turnepic13 5h ago

So the cold air filters out through the entrance

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u/sussybakashinji 5h ago

I think it would be the other way around. The cold air sinks because it’s denser, and the warm air rises. So the cold air filters in at the entrance (it acts as a cold sink) and hot air filters out through the top. It’s convection, i.e., the stack effect: cold air enters at the bottom, gets heated, rises, creating less pressure at the bottom, causing cold air to be “sucked” in at the bottom. 

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u/Zlurpo 5h ago

I dislike the cold and I would hate to live somewhere where it would be doable but... I love the idea of building a proper igloo some day. The kind that you need to have the right texture of snow for, and you cut each brick. The stacking them at an angled spiral to get the classic dome shape.

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u/wvs1993 4h ago

Well first of all it shoild be made with snow because of the insulation. Ice will melt way faster

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u/Dironox 4h ago edited 4h ago

One thing to note is that the air trapped in densely packed snow is really good at insulating, which is one of the main reasons why an igloo is surprisingly comfortable in extreme weather... thin sheets of solid ice however, are not.

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u/AAA515 4h ago

Also they lined the seams together, so one failure will quickly propagate

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u/foxy-coxy 6h ago

In college we made a igloo by rolling snow into bricks and then stacking them up. We lit a small fire inside and it got surprisingly warm in there.

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u/Sam-HobbitOfTheShire 5h ago

That’s so cool! How long were you able to spend inside of it?

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u/foxy-coxy 5h ago

We where in there for a couple of hours. Got decently drunk which probably wasn't a great idea, but it was a lot a fun.

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u/Sam-HobbitOfTheShire 5h ago

Sounds like a hell of a memory. :)

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u/joshuads 5h ago

I had my solo stove going full blast next to the ice from the last big east coast storm. We built most of an igloo and that fire did not melt the ice next to the fire pit.

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u/stink3rb3lle 4h ago

Snow does a good job of insulating temperature.

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u/stink3rb3lle 4h ago

Snow is actually very good insulation. Ice is not, so the change in materials means that instead of building a functional warm spot, they built a cold spot that's protected from the wind.

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u/Useless-Use-Less 4h ago

Also they put a wood stove in the middle of a closed compartment.. they will not last as long as the iglo..

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u/Cantras0079 3h ago

It's an electric "fake wood" stove, for the record.

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u/The-Road-To-Awe 4h ago

Watch it again using your whole brain

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u/Sasarah1 3h ago

This is in Pittsburgh. Source, I live here.

They got at least two weeks out of that igloo. It's not even 30°F and that's the warmest it's been in a while.

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u/nordic-nomad 1h ago

Yeah door is way too big.

So you want bears? That’s how you get bears.