And the stuff can be made out of whatever cheap weather-tolerant starches are available (potatoes in particular), and used soon (vs whiskey which requires years of storage).
Posted on 01/16/2018 12:26:03 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
MOSCOW - Even thermometers can't keep up with the plunging temperatures in Russia's remote Yakutia region, which hit minus 67 degrees Celsius (minus 88.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in some areas Tuesday.
In Yakutia - a region of 1 million people about 3,300 miles (5,300 kilometers) east of Moscow - students routinely go to school even in minus 40 degrees. But school was canceled Tuesday throughout the region and police ordered parents to keep their children inside.
Over the weekend, two men froze to death when they tried to walk to a nearby farm after their car broke down. Three other men with them survived because they were wearing warmer clothes, investigators reported.
But the press office for Yakutia's governor said Tuesday that all households and businesses in the region have working central heating and access to backup power generators.
Residents of Yakutia are no strangers to cold weather and this week's cold spell was not even dominating local news headlines Tuesday.
But some media outlets published cold-weather selfies and stories about stunts in the extreme cold. Women posted pictures of their frozen eyelashes, while YakutiaMedia published a picture of Chinese students who got undressed to take a plunge in a thermal spring.
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Assuming it’s 80 proof it will freeze at about -17F. Pure alcohol freezes at -173F. I’m guessing your average Siberian is looking for the higher octane blend.
Why does the AF need such a hanger? To ensure their aircraft will start at that temp?
That’s the only place I know of that’s 200 miles north of Montreal.
Almost accidentally went there once when in a taxi in Montreal I “mispronounced” the name of the airport.
Fortunately, the driver was smart enough to ask “Val-d’Or is 200 miles away; do you mean ‘Dorval’?”.
In case they need to quickly cool the beer.
There ya go! I still hate to get below 273. But that’s just me.
Thanks for that...
Supposed to be warmer in a couple days....
Heck..it's Oklahoma...the weather changes faster than a blink of an eye....
FRegards...........
Erie PA was -13F one winter. Fortunately there was no wind that day. I would rather face -13F and no wind than +30F and a brisk wind.
And the stuff can be made out of whatever cheap weather-tolerant starches are available (potatoes in particular), and used soon (vs whiskey which requires years of storage).
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Is Algore visiting Russia ????
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Or just drink anti-freeze.
Yakutia region...normal for dangerously low temps. They can’t even bury people in winter...have to leave cars running 24/7.
>>At -88 even the vodka freezes.
Not quite.. the vodka would separate into water and ethynol, thus purifying the vodka. The ethyl alcohol won’t freeze solid until -173F.
Global Warming on Free Republic here, here and here
First, nobody in my sophisticated society reports experiencing such temperatures. You only get such stories from rural places where the peasants are gullible.
Second, such a temperature would be very remarkable and make a very interesting story. But we know that such stories are fun to tell, because they are so fantastic and unusual. Thus the people telling them, being that they are not men of sophisticated society and thus excitable and not careful or observant, undoubtedly report such things to impress people.
Third, experiencing things so fantastic is by definition rarer than things which are more ordinary. Thus every given report of such things needs to be weighed in evidence with the ratio of their innate probability in mind. This allows us to discount the fantastic reports, and thus we are able to know they never are true, because discounting them moves their probability to zero, and thus they become not just very unlikely, but actually impossible.
--from Hume's lost essay on why things can't get that cold.
That’s basically what alcohol is.
Anybody else reminded of a margarita?
Saw sights like that in Alaska in 1984-5. The person in the picture should have been wearing a full face cover or a bunny hat. Could easily frost bite with that.
rwood
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