[QUOTE] Originally posted by Aragorn   I was told by a scientist knowledgeable on the subject that farther north than about the 50th parallel, people who are blond and blue-eyed will have an advantage over brown-haired, brown-eyed people. Apparently, having blue eyes allows a person to see better in dimmer, redder light, such as in a Scandinavian winter. Somehow, blond haired people also are more resistant to frostbite than brown haired people      Not true... whoever that scientist was he was giving you a theory... not a fact.  As someone who was in Operation Deepfreeze I saw many blond hair/blue eyes get a touch of frost bite where as I didn't and I'm Italian. As for the blue eyes seeing better in the dark many of you blues got lost on trails (on night patrols) in Vietnam when the person you were following was just one pace in front.     02alpine