RE: Man officially dies from 'spontaneous combustion'.
September 23, 2011 at 4:50 pm
(This post was last modified: September 23, 2011 at 4:52 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(September 23, 2011 at 4:04 pm)searchingforanswers Wrote: Why don't you guys believe in spontaneous combustion?
We don't believe it bacause there is no plausible internal source of ignition. If the ignition came from outside, that that would hardly fit the notion of "spontaneous". If you incinerate yourself by setting your cloth on fire with an accidentally lit match, that hardly counts as spontaneous combustion.
Most of the alledged cases of "spontaneous" combustion seems to involve a ghastly high degree of incineration of portions of a human corpes with surprisingly little heat and fire damage to the rest of the body or the nearby furniture.
It's easy to understand how the ghoulishly impressionable might conclude that the incinerated portion must have somehow burned from inside out since any normal fire burning from outside in would do much more damage to the surrounding before completely incinerating portions of the body.
But the advocators of spontaenous combustion have never advanced a plausible mechanism of internal spontaenous ignition. Those who thinks the ignition source came from outside, on the other hand, have demonstrated through experiments that wicking effect of closing on body fat can produce all the results seem in claimed cases of spontaneous combustion.
