On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:18:15 +0100, Adrian C wrote:

T i m wrote:
I'm meltinggggggggg!!


Soak yer T shirt in cold water, wring it out, put it back on *then*
sit in front of the fan! ;-)

Don't do this too often.

This is England Adrian .. get past the next couple of days and it will
be snowing again! ;-)

You may learn what human spontaneous combustion
is all about when your brain decides it's had enough trying to restore
overcooled areas back to normal. Or at the very least other nasty problems.

(disclaimer: or so I'm told....)

Hey, the guy was melting already how much worse can it get! Out of
interest, would these 'nasty problems' be any worse than being
overheated in the first place? I wouldn't have thought (but will
quickly stand corrected) that there would be that much cooling in the
above (say compared with a sauna then a plunge pool). The cooling
effect uses the 'latent heat of vapourisation' (isn't it) from the
surface and the 'cold' would then have to conduct through the (wet)
fabric to the skin (not sure how efficient that would be). At the same
time the body would be heating the wet shirt up?

Isn't instant human combustion to do with high levels of phosphor or
summmat?

All the best ..

T i m