Yesterday my partner and kids visited the Antarctic Centre in Christchurch, and they were all delighted by the penguins and huskies. They were less impressed by the "cold room" (which was -8C and had fans that also blow wind at 40km/hr, they have parkas you can borrow...)
Saskatchewan has completely changed our standards for cold weather! My 9yo: "It didn't even freeze my boogers! That's not cold!" My partner: "It was nice dog walking weather."
@sundogplanets The place I lived in once got a new clinic/rehabilitation centre for various specific diseases, and for their opening they did an open house and let everyone look at and try all their special equipment.
One thing they had was a cryo room for helping with rheumatoid arthritis: -110°C and you normally enter mostly naked.
On opening day a lot of people went in of course, and the combined exhaled humidity caused a respectable ice blizzard in there :)
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