Sorry to hijack, but that sentence caught my attention. What’s the wick effect?
Oooh, great Doper/band name!
Azure Eternity wick as in candle wick (I may have spelled it incorrectly). The gyst of the effect is that clothing can create a wick that uses the human fat as if it were wax to burn a small concentrated flame in a small area that non the less burns up the entire person or part of a person to charcole, without setting the area near the person allight. There was a U.K. tv program (Horizon IO think) about this, the clincher for me was when they burn’t a pig carcase wrapped in clothing in the same way as was expected for the human spontaneous combustion cases.
BBC Link
I couldn’t however find a good link in any .ac.uk or .edu domain, take that as you will.
Cheers, Bippy
Wow. This brings the dangers of ear candles up to a whole new level. Forget that! These suckers are dangerous!
Only if you’re a real fathead.
I’m telepathetic. Does that help?
Tripler
No, really. Think of a number between 4 and 6.
Sorry, I can’t predict the future on command. I’d have claimed that million bucks if I could.
Cecil wrote a column about spontaneous human combustion. If you scroll down the page, you’ll find a section labeled Update, in which Cecil quotes the findings of The Skeptical Inquirer.
Warning: The descriptions are rather graphic. Although considering some of the stuff that’s shown up on this board, they’re probably pretty mild.