Travis wrote:
> TimC wrote:
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>>It typically takes 25-30 gallons of petrol/diesel to fully-consume an
>>average-sized body under ideal conditions. That I am conversant with
>>this level of detail should serve as an indication of why the wise man
>>does not ask me questions about MS-Windows. --Tanuki on ASR
Weird, I don't see this in TimC's message, but anyway, you can actually
do it for far less. You just need either an overcoat or roll of carpet
to roll up the body. Cut off legs at knee and shove up inside roll,
cover with petrol and ignite.
The trick is in controlling the oxygen supply so that the heat is
actually rendering the fat in the body which comes out and burns
creating further heat. It can take a few days, but eventually everything
is ash, even the bones.
And how do I know? Late night TV doco on spontaneous combustion of
humans. At the end, they demo'ed it with pigs.
I've also seen big snags cook themselves on a plough dish hot plate from
their own fat before hand.
> Perhaps I should have left it unexplained.
Yerr, chemist are almost all like that. Continually trying to
demonstrate how "useful" <blink> their knowledge is. {
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What I really need to know is can a sparkler really set off nitropil &
diesel, or do I need something with its own bang?