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Is it real or just a myth?

I can't honestly say, but I'm going to vote real for a laugh. I'm so horribly bored...

*combusts*

*spontaneously*

It's all fixed. Not spontaneous at all.

*Remembers the drummer of Spinal Tap bursting into flames*

Happens to me all the time.

I've never seen hard evidence to support it. Not that humans can't catch on fire. The Nazis used to stack bodies so they'd burn better. They made use of the fact that women and children had more fat and burned better.

I imagine a lot of reports of spontaneous combustion could be the result of oxygen starved fires. If someone is in a sealed room with a fire they can suffercate and then the fire can very slowly burn and eat away at stuff and finally put itself out when there is no oxygen at all. This could result in a body being found in a chair and the body could be half burnt away. People might conclude that it was the result of spontaneous combustion.

There is no such thing as spontaneous human combustion. You've got to plan human combustion ahead of time if you want it to do it right.

*combusts*

*spontaneously*

:eek: I sometimes post spontaneously!

But, seriously, I have been very intererested in this subject for a while. Good topic 10/10!

:eek: I sometimes post spontaneously!

Flaming someone as soon as you see a post of theirs is spontaneous combustion, yeah?

If so, I'm a master of it :p

Flaming someone as soon as you see a post of theirs is spontaneous combustion, yeah?

If so, I'm a master of it :p

LOLz! :)

Sometimes humans can make telepathic contact with higher beings that want to spread a message of peace and love. Unfortunately these higher beings live in the sun and their thoughts are at a million degrees celcius which causes humans to burst into flames. Stupid higher beings!

It's real! I have the ability to spontaneously combust at will. I just haven't wanted to.

Sometimes humans can make telepathic contact with higher beings that want to spread a message of peace and love. Unfortunately these higher beings live in the sun and their thoughts are at a million degrees celcius which causes humans to burst into flames. Stupid higher beings!
Shhhh, they'll hear you.
>.> <.<

I imagine a lot of reports of spontaneous combustion could be the result of oxygen starved fires. If someone is in a sealed room with a fire they can suffercate and then the fire can very slowly burn and eat away at stuff and finally put itself out when there is no oxygen at all. This could result in a body being found in a chair and the body could be half burnt away. People might conclude that it was the result of spontaneous combustion.

This is exactly what happens, there is no such thing as spontaneous combustion. Most cases have been of smokers who fall asleep or die in their sleep with a lit cig and slowly burn up.

This is exactly what happens, there is no such thing as spontaneous combustion. Most cases have been of smokers who fall asleep or die in their sleep with a lit cig and slowly burn up.
Stop taking this seriously, you're ruining it for the rest of us.

This is exactly what happens, there is no such thing as spontaneous combustion. Most cases have been of smokers who fall asleep or die in their sleep with a lit cig and slowly burn up.
Often after drinking or taking medication that makes one drowsy, like sleeping pills or strong narcotic pain medication people will pass out with a lit cigarette in their hand.

Its a government conspiracy lead by the CIA and Mi6 to stop certain rednecks or pikeys from voting.

Unless someone can show me a pic of someone actually bursting into flames with no evidence of the presence of a naked flame anywhere close by, then I'd have to say that those 'fires' are most likely what you guys are saying - an oxygen deprived slow burner. Kinda like paper....

(Weird thought - do spontaneous human combusters have a higher amount of wood mulch in their system from eating paper as kids? - Just a thought...)

It's a myth. I'm kind of a skeptic, so I always keep my mind open in case someone proves it to be true... But I've yet to see any conclusive evidence.

Besides, we have to keep in mind the human body is made of 70% water. It's not flammable. The only really flammable parts of the human body are the hair: the rest is very moist, and as such cannot really be ignited unless it's in presence of a very very hot flame, or accelerant is used. It usually just produce burns on the skin, but don't actually catch on fire.

Well, since no one has gone there yet, I feel obligated to...


Spontaneous human combustion is very real. It is a condition unique to Arab Muslims. What happens is the brain gets overloaded with hate propoganda and the person begins to lose molecular stability. In most cases the individual wonders around in a daze, and drifts into crowded areas before igniting.

It's a myth. I'm kind of a skeptic, so I always keep my mind open in case someone proves it to be true... But I've yet to see any conclusive evidence.

Besides, we have to keep in mind the human body is made of 70% water. It's not flammable. The only really flammable parts of the human body are the hair: the rest is very moist, and as such cannot really be ignited unless it's in presence of a very very hot flame, or accelerant is used. It usually just produce burns on the skin, but don't actually catch on fire.
There is still quite a bit of fat on many people, and if the clothing catches fire it can burn the outer layers of skin, start melting the subcutaneous fat, and the remaining rags of clothing act like a wick in an oil lamp slowly burning away the human fat and evaporating much of the body's moisture.

Well, since no one has gone there yet, I feel obligated to...


Spontaneous human combustion is very real. It is a condition unique to Arab Muslims. What happens is the brain gets overloaded with hate propoganda and the person begins to lose molecular stability. In most cases the individual wonders around in a daze, and drifts into crowded areas before igniting.
Makes sense to me.

I'm not convinced, It's easy to write it off as wick effect caused by external sources, but there are enough cases where the facts don't seem to fit, either due to lack of ignition, or the required ventilation for a wick effect or the wrong time frame. Creepy business anyway.

There is still quite a bit of fat on many people, and if the clothing catches fire it can burn the outer layers of skin, start melting the subcutaneous fat, and the remaining rags of clothing act like a wick in an oil lamp slowly burning away the human fat and evaporating much of the body's moisture.
Then it's not spontaneous human combustion: it's "clothes catch on fire for some stupid reason and human being burns as a consequence of wearing clothes that are on fire"-combustion.

My point wasn't that human beings can't burn and are fireproff: they aren't. Simply that a human body needs an external cause to catch on fire; it doesn't burst up into flames randomly for some obscure reason.

Then it's not spontaneous human combustion: it's "clothes catch on fire for some stupid reason and human being burns as a consequence of wearing clothes that are on fire"-combustion.

My point wasn't that human beings can't burn and are fireproff: they aren't. Simply that a human body needs an external cause to catch on fire; it doesn't burst up into flames randomly for some obscure reason.
My bad. I thought you were arguing that humans can't burn well and therefore something supernatural is at work.

Has anyone ever had an inspontaneous combustion?

Has anyone ever had an inspontaneous combustion?
I have. I had a little puddle of 100 proof vodka in my hand once and decided to light it on fire.

Has anyone ever had an inspontaneous combustion?

Well, there are all those conspiracy theorists who say the Arab Muslims ignite on purpose. But, as we all know, Islam is a religion of peace, so that can't be true.

Well, since no one has gone there yet, I feel obligated to...


Spontaneous human combustion is very real. It is a condition unique to Arab Muslims. What happens is the brain gets overloaded with hate propoganda and the person begins to lose molecular stability. In most cases the individual wonders around in a daze, and drifts into crowded areas before igniting.


I cant believe you just said that :rolleyes: (:) )

Is it real or just a myth?

Who cares? It's fun at parties either way.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y138/Dragonkirby/Non-Kirby/image119.jpg

Ha.

This is exactly what happens, there is no such thing as spontaneous combustion. Most cases have been of smokers who fall asleep or die in their sleep with a lit cig and slowly burn up.

I saw that CSI, too!

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y138/Dragonkirby/Non-Kirby/image119.jpg

Ha.

I find myself sporting a half-chub over this picture. A spontaneous one. I am also human.

Wow.

I personally think it's real... How else do you explain people being turned into heaps of ash while their clothes and the surrounding area remaining largly undamaged?

Switch-blade wielding socieopathic bunnies are, as ever, to blame!

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y138/Dragonkirby/Non-Kirby/image119.jpg

Ha.
What the zombie jesus is happening in that picture?

I saw it in an episode of South Park so it has to be real...

This explains eevrything.

What the zombie jesus is happening in that picture?

I don't know, but it's kinda a turn on...

I personally think it's real... How else do you explain people being turned into heaps of ash while their clothes and the surrounding area remaining largly undamaged?
Alien desintegrator beam.

Alien desintegrator beam.

http://unn13.com/sophia/images/marvin_martian2_thiscartoon.jpghttp://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y138/Dragonkirby/Non-Kirby/image119.jpg

P.S. It's true!

Definitely real.:D

It's possible I guess, there could be a situation that it happens. I remember a history channel special on it, but I didn't see what they concluded.

Stop taking this seriously, you're ruining it for the rest of us.

Why don't you go spontaneously combust yourself? ;)

It's real! I have the ability to spontaneously combust at will. I just haven't wanted to.

Thats not spontaneous cumbustion, thats combustion by choice.

Now if every so often your finger or foot or nostril or what-have-you just burst into flames without warning, THAT my friend would be true spontaneous human combustion. Youd want to have a fire extinguisher with you at all times if you were afflicted.

I personally think it's real... How else do you explain people being turned into heaps of ash while their clothes and the surrounding area remaining largly undamaged?

Alien plasma lasers set on minimal collateral damage. And nomex clothing lines.

You got ashes on my sofa!

LOLWTFBBQ

spontaneous combution? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH...(breathe deeply) AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH....

spontaneous combution? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH...(breathe deeply) AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH....
Careful there...

i voted other cuz i dunno. there's documented instances of people burning up inexplicably but whether it was spontaneous or not i'm not certain. for me absence of an obvious answer doesn't mean the crazy must be true but then no-one's proved otherwise so it could be i suppose.

What the zombie jesus is happening in that picture?

She appears to have her belt buckle caught on the top bunk.

It's true, spontaneous human combustion DOES happen. If a person is having gas problems, and happens to grit their teeth very hard, the grinding teeth generates a spark that will ignite the gas and FWOOOOSHH!, spontaneous combustion. It can also happen if you grit your teeth very close to someone's ass when they fart, but your teeth need to be VERY close to the ass in question.

Thats not spontaneous cumbustion, thats combustion by choice.
What if I spontaneously choose to combust?

its not a myth, its unexplained but entirely possible

What if I spontaneously choose to combust?

Then its spontaneous choice.

*Sigh* When there's finally a poll which can support the Myrth-option without seeming... Well, completely off, it isn't there.

In Soviet Russia, combustion spontaneous YOU!

(sorry if anyone has said that, it's just that I've never done one of those before... Not as fullfilling as I thought it would be.)

In theory, anything can combust...why not a fat guy??

In Soviet Russia, combustion spontaneous YOU!

I don't know if you win the internet but you certainly deserve at least a node.

*Sigh* When there's finally a poll which can support the Myrth-option without seeming... Well, completely off, it isn't there.

In Soviet Russia, combustion spontaneous YOU!

(sorry if anyone has said that, it's just that I've never done one of those before... Not as fullfilling as I thought it would be.)
If it helps, I read Myth as Myrth.