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In reply to the discussion: Sheriff Says Spontaneous Human Combustion Kills Man [View all]kickysnana
(3,908 posts)However there was a case where a professional man's leg caught on fire, twice with his wife in the bed next to him and nobody was smoking.
Discover magazine just had an article where a semi-retired scientist was doing some freelancing on things he always wondered about and he found that a certain radioactive isotope decays intermittently and nobody could quite figure out why. He looked and when the experiments were done the decay was seasonal and when he looked further they corresponded with sun eruptions. Then he saw that slowing started a very short time before we could detect the explosion on the sun so he set up an experiment where he was going to try the next big explosion and as it happened he he was opposite the sun, it was night and he was able to give the number of hours 96. hat there was/is, which would be wonderful because every 200 years a mega explosion happens that would take out most technology. The last time was about 1865 and it totally destroyed the telegraph system that was running at the time. This would give us time to unhook, shield and otherwise protect the electrical grid. The estimated time to repair a an event similar to the 1865 one was 10 years. It would affect almost everything. (Note to Bloomberg not so fast on getting rid of the libraries). Whatever it was came though the earth. We are also due for the 100 year, half strength eruption, one that took out a lot of grid in the last century.
Anyway we had a friend who grew up in the depression who was one of us read anything and everything. He passed away about 1988. His idea of the non-smoking incidents was that whatever was taking out the electrical grid was also starting these fires in people.
Then there are the operating room fires. Some of it is oxygen leaks but I would guess if you had a pool of methane in your abdomen etc and you it with a cauterizer that would make a pretty good explosion.
It is late so don't take the dates etc as facts. The article wasn't up the day the magazine came out but it may be now. I am not going to worry to much about this. A scientist in England is usually right says that we should be headed into an ice age in about 2030 and the catastrophic change could come in as little as 10 years. That and the weight of the ice shifting may change the earths orbit/wobble, tectonic pressures, Yellowstone super volcano is overdue and we are way overdue for a polarization shift. That is if we don't burn off our atmosphere before 2030.
But we all have to die sometime and most of this there is little we can do about anyway. Makes me wonder about the man-made silicone part they found imbedded in millennial old rock in the desert in the US. How many times have we got this far only to have things break apart? (On this planet)