Fun Fact Thread! (previously fun fact for the day, not limited to 1 per day anymore.)

[magnemoe]

On 6/29/2024 at 11:41 PM, Codraroll said:

For whatever reason, matters of air quality usually goes into the hands of the ventilation people. Building physics, at least as it's practiced in the Nordic countries, is about preventing fungal growth inside the building structure itself, often from the outside.

Ironically enough, doing thermal calculations that involve only snow is trivial. Your temperature will be 0 °C or colder. The question is how long the structure lasts.

The air can be hotter however, this smelts the top layer of the snow creating ice, an layer who can support quite some weight.  Now if you get lots of new snow on top of it the ice layer has low friction so its easy to get avalanches. 

[kerbiloid]

Mice.

They are hiding under the snow, making tunnels, and melt the snow from below with their warmth.

We need to know the mousification coefficient of the snow before starting the calculations.

[darthgently]

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