 | jimp@specsol-spam-sux.com wrote:
> In sci.physics Edward Green wrote:
> > Do oil soaked rags spontaneously combust at 45C? Sure they do...
that
> > is, if we're talking about ambient temperture: they combust at a
lot
> > lower ambient temperatures than that, given proper local
conditions.
> > Since nobody has implied that the 45C is other than ambient
> > temperature, we are justified in taking it as such.
> While there are a lot of things that will spontaneously combust at
45C,
> trees aren't one of them.
Most likely you are right -- I have no information to the contrary.
But remember we are talking not solely about living trees, nor well
cured lumber, but about a forest, with lots of mixed detritus cooking
in the sun. And also there are some species designed to burn off
occasionally, surviving in roots or seeds, to clear the land of the
competition. Is it that far fetched to suppose some such species has
also evolved the possibility of cooking off in the hot sun? Stranger
things have happened.
Just defending the possibility as not out of the ballpark.
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