2006-11-27 15:32:02 · 10 answers · asked by Mr Brightsides 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
that is a very interesting question...i was watching a documentary about that, it sounds incredible but i believe it can be real. One difficult thing to understand is how can fire be created from inside the body..if there is no enough oxygen....besides nothing burns from the inside out.
2006-11-27 15:35:25 · answer #1 · answered by Jesus Eduardo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. As I recall, I read something about this some time ago. The so-called spontaneous combustion was caused by an outside source of flame (like a cigarette) and the strange burn characteristics was caused by oxygen starvation of the fire in a confined area. They actually re-created the situation using a pig carcass. Once buring, the melting fats acted like candle wax and created a low flame, long buring fire.
2006-11-27 16:28:34 · answer #2 · answered by wires 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As the human body is composed of approximately 90+% water, and fire is required to have a source of oxygen as well as fuel and a spark (heat), I don't believe it would even be remotely possible unless the subject was full of an extreme percentage of Magnesium or Phospherous that would counter the Oxygen requirement. In either case, the body could not exist alive to begin with.
Just an opinion! lol
2006-11-27 23:03:01 · answer #3 · answered by policetac 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Another idiotic superstition! Gawd, if I had no conscience I could make millions telling people just what they wanted to hear, like all these fortune tellers you see. Every last one of them is a fake and a con artist, in actual fact a thief who belongs in jail with their soul mates the TV preachers!
2006-11-27 18:59:18 · answer #4 · answered by hznfrst 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. I don't think the biology of a human being would allow that.
2006-11-27 15:35:23 · answer #5 · answered by Speed racer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not in humans, but I saw on the news it can happen in potting soil.
2006-11-27 15:43:10 · answer #6 · answered by Kevin H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Believing in" is not a question for Science and Mathematics.
See "Religion".
2006-11-27 15:38:59 · answer #7 · answered by questor_2001 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes
2006-11-27 15:33:42 · answer #8 · answered by Cold Fart 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
2006-11-27 15:34:07 · answer #9 · answered by Brian M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
2006-11-27 15:39:55 · answer #10 · answered by tooyoung2bagrannybabe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋