Friday, July 14, 2006

spontaneous human combustion (SHC)

I saw an article on this subject in a local magazine and thought of finding out about it more.

What spontaneous human combustion (SHC) means is the sudden combustion of a human body (without an ignition from the outer world) and they say this combustion is so strong which even turns the skeleton into ashes.

There were facts for and against this.

The major facts for SHC is the human body fat and the methane gas as they say our body fat burns well and when those turn into liquid, those flow under the body and increase the power of the blames.

The facts against SHC were
There is a lot of water in human body and it takes a temperature of 1600 degrees Fahrenheit for about two hours to burn a human body.

Interesting Notes:
* If you eat an enormous amount of hay that was infested with bacteria, enough heat might be generated to ignite the hay your gut and intestines would probably burn.
* eating the newspaper and drink some oil, and stay to rot for a couple of weeks in a well-heated room, your gut might ignite.

As you see there are facts for both for and against this I think there is something about SHC
Visit the site it has a lot of interesting information on this topic.

the link is:
http://skepdic.com/shc.html

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Traditional First Post

Hello Everyone,

I like to be traditional whenever possible so I thought of starting my blog as usual, yah! with a thanking post.

I never had a thought of making my own blog but recently, there was a workshop in my Campus and after that I decided to make my own blog.

Special thanks to:
Mr. Wellington Perera (MVP) who gave me the idea at that workshop.
And
The host site for giving me a free blog with a ready made template.

Feel Free to use this and comment .. !


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