7 Feb
2003
7 Feb
'03
3:37 a.m.
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Jeffrey S. Worley wrote:
When I was a kid, I tried and tried to make an igloo
of packed cubes of
snow. I never could get one finished as once the walls started to curve
I couldn't get the layers to stick long enough to close the thing up and
complete it. An igloo is a very stable structure, but a half-finished
one isn't at all stable...
ISTR the Inuit used water to fuse the blocks while building.
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