Siberia
About Siberia
Siberia is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has formed a part of the sovereign territory of Russia and its predecessor states since the lengthy conquest of Siberia, which began with the fall of the Khanate of Sibir in 1582 and concluded with the annexation of Chukotka in 1778. Siberia is vast and sparsely populated, covering an area of over 13.1 million square kilometres (5,100,000 mi2) – about three-quarters of Russia's total area, but home to roughly a quarter of Russia's population. Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, and Omsk are the largest cities in the area. Siberia is comparable in area, population, and, to some extent, geography and climate, to Canada.
On the show — 66 mentions total
If you dig a hole deep enough, it gets really hot at the bottom because it's the pressure, and that heats up the air, and obviously the air at the top because it's in the middle of Siberia is cold, and so you get this convection current of air, and it can cause a vortex, and so anything flying over the top of it can get sucked down into the hole.
from 162: No Such Thing As Catastrophic Shoelaces, 2017-04-28 at 00:06:45 · read transcript
Other times Siberia came up
Pass me the salt and he does no other head kick to you or something. Stalin was, just speaking of Stalin, was exiled to Siberia six times between 1913 and escaped five times. Speaking of people who escape a lot and the passing of someone quite famous, Diego Maradona, who passed away recently, very sadly, he used to, didn't he go and used to play football at the request of Pablo Escobar while he was in prison?
No Such Thing As Pop Charts for Bagpipers, 2020-12-11 · listen
It's due to a convection thing. The me and mine in the 1960s made 20% of all the gems in the world. Wow. They found them there. When they first dug it, it's in near Yakutsk, I think. It's really cold in the middle of Siberia. They had permafrost. It's really icy there. Even the dynamite wouldn't get through the permafrost because it was so cold. Wow.
No Such Thing As Catastrophic Shoelaces, 2017-04-28 · listen
They had to sit in limbo with the updated information and anyone who is 25 miles closer to the North Pole than they thought was suddenly unable to access it. It affected millions of people. I think it's moving towards Russia, isn't it? It's currently still in Canadian territory, but it's moving up towards Siberia. Putin's declaring war on it. I read that in 2001, Russian researchers made the world's biggest magnet.
272: No Such Thing As A Non-Judgemental Herring, 2019-06-07 · listen
No one's quibbling. That was a good, good, fine way. It is okay. A good, good, good, fine. Frantically looked to how he could. They live in Siberia. Not actually, I based it on a Siberian Caterpillar, but he also says, and here's my unscientific explanation. My caterpillar is very unusual. Caterpillars don't eat lollipops and ice cream, so you won't find my caterpillar in any field guides. Right.
91: No Such Thing As Apocalypse 1988, 2015-12-11 · listen
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