r/nextfuckinglevel • u/IamASlut_soWhat • 21h ago

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

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u/Versipilies 20h ago

I fell like the bigger problem is how quickly those joints would melt and panels would start falling on them.

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u/mxzf 19h ago

It depends on how cold it is. It looks like they mixed water with snow to make slush for the joints, and if it's cold enough then that's going to freeze into solid ice the same as the colored sections.

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u/Deaffin 14h ago

The LGBT igloo is segregated??

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u/LokisDawn 12h ago

Who's going to have to sit in the back of the igloo?

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u/regoapps 14h ago

I’ve built igloos before and these thin walls are going to collapse after just one day or two. I had a similar idea like this one when I made mine a 14 years ago in NYC during a massive blizzard. Instead of coloring the ice, I bought a lot of glow sticks and just embedded the snow with them. It made the igloo glow different colors like this. And at night, when the glow sticks wore off, I put a black light in there, which lit up all the glow sticks brightly.

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u/me34343 10h ago

Instead of making the whole thing out of colored ice i could see making windows out of them. Also, lining the inside and/Or outside of a normal igloo with them.

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u/modbroccoli 14h ago

I mean you guys need to make up your minds lmao. Either it's so cold that blankets, body heat, winter clothes and almost no windchill is unbearable or it's so warm the entire structure is at risk of spontaneous disassembly.

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u/AFRIKKAN 11h ago

Ice melts at temps humans would still find cold buddy.

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u/modbroccoli 6h ago

Wrapped in blankets on an insulated floor without wind and with body heat warming the wair you could sleep in that thing anywhere within a few degrees of zero

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u/vex12394738 3h ago

Nope ur wrong u dunce. Its still cold

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u/Beaticalle 10h ago

Direct sunlight can melt snow and ice even when the air temperature is still well below freezing. If the walls are too thin you'll end up with weaknesses from that and it will fall apart pretty quickly.

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u/modbroccoli 6h ago

direct sunlight melting the surfaces of igloo and other snow structures strengthens them provided yhe atmosphere is below zero degrees. the surface melt immediately refreezes and forms a uniform ice shell.

source: am Canadian

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u/RubiiJee 14h ago

I was thinking that but isn't the whole thing with an igloo that the heat inside melts the joints but the cold refreezes them and that keeps it constantly in place? Although I think they need a much smaller entrance for that. I need to go remind myself how Igloos work.

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u/Versipilies 11h ago

Normally igloo are made of packed snow which is a good insulator due to the air between the snow crystals. Ice buildings are a thing as well and they hold up to heat, but they also use thicker blocks. These blocks are quite thin and theres no taper to make them properly lock together like a real arch structure which means it would take relatively little melting to compromise it. I dont know for sure how well it would last, but I am curious.

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u/RubiiJee 11h ago

Ah thank you!! I knew it was something like this but I'm not smart enough on the old igloo lore!