Sponsor |  lovingpoet | Jul 1, 2007 9:14am | From Wikipidea: Spontaneous human combustion (SHC) is a pseudo-scientific hypothesis that suggests that burning of a person's body may occur without an external source of flammable ignition. Although there is much speculation and controversy over SHC, it is not a proven natural phenomenon. In spite of this, many theories and hypotheses have attempted to explain SHC's existence and how it may occur, some grounded in current scientific understanding. The two most common explanations offered to account for apparent SHC are each discussed below: the non-spontaneous "wick effect" fire, and the rare discharge called "static flash fire".
From science.howstuffworks.com/shc.htm [science.howstuffworks.com/shc.htm]
In December 1966, the body of 92-year-old Dr. J. Irving Bentley was discovered in his Pennsylvania home by a meter reader. Actually, only part of Dr. Bentley's leg and slippered foot were found. The rest of his body had been burned to ashes. A hole in the bathroom floor was the only evidence of the fire that had killed him; the rest of the house remained perfectly intact.
How could a man catch fire -- with no apparent source of a spark or flame -- and then burn so completely without igniting anything around him? Dr. Bentley's case and several hundred others like it have been labeled "spontaneous human combustion" (SHC). Although he and other victims of the phenomenon burned almost completely, their surroundings, and even sometimes their clothes, remained virtually untouched.
Can humans spontaneously burst into flames? A lot of people think spontaneous human combustion is a real occurrence, but most scientists aren't convinced.
From me: Check out some sites....or simply voice your opinion...do you think we "humans" can spontaniously combust?
A good site:
crystalinks.com/shc.html [crystalinks.com/shc.html] |
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