how people in extremely cold places can survive? For example, Oymyakon in Siberia regularly gets below – 55°c / – 67°f, and I’m sure we’ve all seen those videos of people throwing boiling water into the air where it freezes instantly. How does blood not freeze? How are mucous membranes and eyeballs not frozen within seconds? How does anybody pee without it instantly freezing?
Obviously people live in heated housing, but how can people go outside/ pee outside without injury? I’ve wondered about this for years, and even more so when I see pictures of animals seemingly frozen in place mid-movement.
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One other factor about living in the cold is the amount of calories burned, I’ve read stories of polar expeditions where they planned on eating something like 10,000 calories per day and still lost weight!
I had the briefest taste of that once on a trip to Antarctica we did a swim in about 3° C water. At first it was painful but after a minute or so it wasn’t so bad. It was like my metabolism kicked into high gear and back on the ship I was ravenously hungry and plowed through a huge pile of food.
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