Re: Fire (pine knots)

Michael Hearne:
His theory has to do with a lens effect from the water droplets and the
sun. I wonder if it was ever done with say, a quartz crystal or some
other naturally occurring mineral?

I have tried it with my glasses, but it did not work. Of course, my
glasses are concave lenses, while a magnifying glass is convex. A water
droplet, being spherical, might not have the same focal properties, but
I haven't studied it.

It does seem rather complex for a monkey, so it would have to be
accidental, and probably not a repeatable experiment.

I just watch a documentary series about living in wilderness. People
are doing in wilderness exactly those things. They use pine knots as
thorches. For the very reason of resin in pine knots. They start fire by
making sparks, rubbing some metal on some stone. No problemo.
At mediterranean rocky coast you have all this. Combustable resin,
rocks, and that spark producing stones. And we do have strong hands. But not
the ape-like hands, which are actually hooks, and are of no use to play with
rocks. Our hands grip rocks excelently? Why? Well because we climbed sea
cliffs, and not trees. We were cliff hangers, and not a tree climbers. So,
really everything that is around us is at place. No need for somebody to
"invent it". Is this occam rasor?
Of course, our dear scientiests say that it is more natural that we
invented all this. No, it isn't at all. -- Mario


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