
Fire
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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Are You an Expert on Fire?
Spontaneous human combustion does not happen. What we have shown to happen by experiment, not with people, is not doing well. It's a thing called a wick effect. And as they are beside the fire and stay and remain in contact, or close contact with the fire, what the fire begins to do is render down the areas of fat in the body. The middle of the torsil and those in particular, and thoghe, all the audiencen are grimacing at me. So those areas, and they render it down a little bit like a candle is rendered down. And then it's the clothing of of the person that acts like a wick
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