What does it take to vaporize a human body? I've heard if you're in the epic center of a thermal nuclear detonation, you'll be vaporized instantly; is there any other way to get vaporized? If you think about it, if you were vaporized leaving no trace behind, it would be like you were never here!
Vaporizing Human Bodies
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Nordic countries have been developing "freeze drying" as a cremation method.
The body is dipped in liquid nitrogen or something, and the water vapours driven off...literally vaporised. Leaving a pile of ash that can be buried.
Saves the 50 litres of kerosene (or equivalent) at the crematorium.
The body is dipped in liquid nitrogen or something, and the water vapours driven off...literally vaporised. Leaving a pile of ash that can be buried.
Saves the 50 litres of kerosene (or equivalent) at the crematorium.
Originally Posted By: Shannow
Leaving a pile of ash that can be buried.
I don't want to leave a pile of ash behind; I want to be vaporized into thin air.
Leaving a pile of ash that can be buried.
I don't want to leave a pile of ash behind; I want to be vaporized into thin air.
Not quite that easy, as there's things that don't normally exist as a gas.
Jump out of a space shuttle prior to re-entry, and there's probably enough potential energy, and contact time with oxygen that non of you will get to the ground (except your RFID)
Jump out of a space shuttle prior to re-entry, and there's probably enough potential energy, and contact time with oxygen that non of you will get to the ground (except your RFID)
So clouds could actually be people? At least until they condense in someone's A/C and are unceremoniously eliminated onto the driveway.
tropic, whenever you drink a glass of water, there's bound to be someone else's urine in it...even in a tiny amount, it's still there.
As to your post, we recently bought a water from air unit (town doing nasty stuff to our water supplies, and bottled going up)...it condenses the water in the house...we are literally drinking our own sweat at present.
As to your post, we recently bought a water from air unit (town doing nasty stuff to our water supplies, and bottled going up)...it condenses the water in the house...we are literally drinking our own sweat at present.
Merkava, I've heard (not researched) that if you are inturd in a septic tank, there will quickly be nothing recognisable.
edit...http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/tsunamis/pdf/tsunami-autopsyliquidwaste.pdf
if you have a tsunami, then septics are acceptable.
edit...http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/tsunamis/pdf/tsunami-autopsyliquidwaste.pdf
if you have a tsunami, then septics are acceptable.
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Originally Posted By: Shannow
Merkava, I've heard (not researched) that if you are inturd in a septic tank, there will quickly be nothing recognisable.
Merkava, I've heard (not researched) that if you are inturd in a septic tank, there will quickly be nothing recognisable.
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There should be an award given for that one!
Originally Posted By: Shannow
Merkava, I've heard (not researched) that if you are inturd in a septic tank, there will quickly be nothing recognisable.
Watch out for the whitefish.....oh gawd what is that? I guess it's better to be inturd than exturd?
Merkava, I've heard (not researched) that if you are inturd in a septic tank, there will quickly be nothing recognisable.
Watch out for the whitefish.....oh gawd what is that? I guess it's better to be inturd than exturd?
Shannow, that's a riot!
Regarding the question at hand, I'd expect that enough electricity would do the trick.
Chemically speaking, you have to create high enough temperatures and pressures to force all the compounds in your body to turn into vapor (gas). That's going to take a LOT of energy, especially for something like bone, but it's certainly possible.
How many glasses of scotch have you had. 
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Or Oz'ch?
Phaser on level 6 should do it...
Originally Posted By: Shannow
tropic, whenever you drink a glass of water, there's bound to be someone else's urine in it...even in a tiny amount, it's still there.
Thanks, man. I'm not sure how long it's going to take me to forget about that!
tropic, whenever you drink a glass of water, there's bound to be someone else's urine in it...even in a tiny amount, it's still there.
Thanks, man. I'm not sure how long it's going to take me to forget about that!
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So clouds could actually be people? At least until they condense in someone's A/C and are unceremoniously eliminated onto the driveway.
That's why some clouds look like people or animals.
So clouds could actually be people? At least until they condense in someone's A/C and are unceremoniously eliminated onto the driveway.
That's why some clouds look like people or animals.
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Originally Posted By: Shannow
tropic, whenever you drink a glass of water, there's bound to be someone else's urine in it...even in a tiny amount, it's still there.
Well a portion that was water in someone else's urine to be sure but not necessarily someone's excretory compounds as they left their sweaty aids and other disease riddled body.
tropic, whenever you drink a glass of water, there's bound to be someone else's urine in it...even in a tiny amount, it's still there.
Well a portion that was water in someone else's urine to be sure but not necessarily someone's excretory compounds as they left their sweaty aids and other disease riddled body.
Who are you calling a septic, mate?
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