Re: Extremely stupid question!

From: Christof Kuhn (Christof.Kuhn_at_boku.ac.at)
Date: 07/19/04 

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 20:05:38 +0200

Waterstone wrote:
>
> Depending upon the circumstances, you might all die of toxic gasses before
> you threw her in, or exposure to something nasty, like heat or flying rocks
> or bites and scratches. Why don't you and your friend conduct an experiment
> with a quarter of beef or half a pig? Post your results.
>
We are at the edge of empiric science here.
How can a dying person tell you what it's like?
How can you assess what's happening to half a pig floating on lava
several hundreds of meters away?

As usual if people warn from stupidity, this question is not that stupid.
In fact, many people have been killed by lava and nobody knows what they
felt before they passed away.

Regards, Christof 

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DI Christof Kuhn
Inst. f. Angewandte Geologie,
Univ. f. BoKu Wien, Austria
Christof.Kuhn@boku.ac.at
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