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Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days ago

Can humans spontaneously combust? The baffling cases explained.

www.popsci.com

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Can humans spontaneously combust? The baffling cases explained.

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Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days ago
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It’s more like a candle and less like an act of God.
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    In his view, the missing factor is that other animals don’t tend to “wrap themselves up in blankets and drink whiskey and smoke,” he says.

    But what is they did?

    John DeHaan, a forensic scientist, set fire to a pig carcass wrapped in blankets

    Science!

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      At least they had the decency to use a dead pig

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      other animals don’t tend to “wrap themselves up in blankets

      uh lots of animals are naturally wrapped in blankets, and fat for that matter.

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        Fat sheep is hella flammable

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            I clicked on them in Warcraft 3

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