Do a search on Spontaneous Human Combustion. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Nave" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 12:41 PM Subject: CS>Understanding Electronic Devices
> It's obvious that electronic devices work by some sort of > magic. I mean, ask your mother, ask your neighbor, ask > Mike Tyson how an electronic device works. No doubt > you will realize after talking to them that they operate by magic. > > Now I, and many others, have discerned by dint of observation > that the magical quality by which they operate is "smoke". > Nine times out of ten, if you damage an electronic circuit, you > will let the smoke out. If enough smoke is let out, it will not work > again. If you look closely at the component, it will usually be > cracked and there will be a residue of soot in the vicinity of the > crack. It is usually not possible to put the smoke back in. > There is some interaction of this quality with the > electrical energy that is used to initiate it's activity. One may > damage an electronic circuit mechanically and no smoke will > come out until the electro motive force is applied, but when > it is, you will usually be able to see the smoke escaping. > > You should be able to demonstrate this to yourself. Open up your > computer console, turn on the power switch and poke around > inside it with a large screwdriver. You will soon notice a > cloud of smoke (usually accompanied by a snapping > sound) rising up from your computer. I doubt that it will work > at all after that. > > As to how an electro magnetic pulse would cause the smoke to > be released from an electronic circuit is not clear. It probably causes > severe stresses in the case or shell of an electronic component, > cracking them open and thereby releasing the smoke. > > Now, as far as people go... yes, if you apply a torch or a fire to them > it is possible to get them to burn and possibly even to cause smoke > to rise from them. However, this is due to the external application of > fire and not from any internal operating quality of the organisms. It is > difficult to imaging that something made up of mostly water will work > by smoke. No doubt humans etc. work by something even more subtle > and refined than smoke. > > Biological entities are fueled for the most part on food, water, and air. > If you apply food, water, and air to them and then cause them > to expire, nine times out of ten you will not see smoke escaping from them > unless an external heat is applied, so I would conclude that no, humans > and animals in general do not work by smoke. I mean, you can cut them, > stab them, choke them, squash them, shoot them, grate them. They will > stop working, but they will not release smoke. Even adding food, water, > or air to them will not cause them to release smoke so I have to conclude > that they don't run on smoke. > > Dan > > > > > -- > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> >
