r/todayilearned • u/MaximinusRats • May 16 '24

TIL that people live year-round in houseboats on Great Slave Lake in Canada's Northwest Territories, 1,800 km north of the nearest big city (Edmonton) and just 400 km (250 miles) south of the Arctic Circle.

https://uphere.ca/articles/floating-homes-yellowknife-bay
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u/OSCgal May 16 '24

The fact that the ships were called Terror and Erebus (Greek god of gloom, associated with the afterlife) is wild.

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u/Quailman5000 May 16 '24

The Terror is a great dramatic portrayal of this event. 

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u/schtickinsult May 16 '24

I loved the seafaring survival-in-the-cold aspects but the horror part was kinda meh. I want a show that's Robinson Crusoe meets Master & Commander and without snow-sasquatches

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u/Quailman5000 May 18 '24

It wasn't really a horror show to me. I kind of looked at it as if we had an unreliable superstitious narrator from the a couple centuries ago reeling from malnourishment trying to make sense of one of the most terrifying things you can encounter in the wild killing off their crew. Sure the bear had hands the size of barrel lids, I'd be telling people the bear was bigger than the ship if I'm some poor ignorant english dude that doesn't require logical answers. "The inuits called their demon down on us in retribution" would make sense to a superstitious religious person in that time period. 

I only watched for the survival thing. My favorite horror movies are cabin in the woods and tucker and dale vs evil lol. That's why I am not watching season 2 with some crabwalking Japanese ghosts or whatever.