"David Ball" wrote in message
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On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 21:45:14 -0500, "Ian St. John"
wrote:


"David Ball" wrote in message
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On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 21:11:09 -0500, "Ian St. John"
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I have a pretty accurate version of causality. Kindly show me,
Larry, how to start a fire just by putting wood into a pile?

uh, oh.... David. Not to burst your bubble but you *can* do that.
In
my
hometown the used to be a large 'pit' that contained rather
extensive
piles of 'sawdust'. It would catch fire at regular intervals from
'spontaneous combustion'. Just wood in a pile... ;-)

I didn't ask you about spontaneous combustion, Larry. I asked
you to start a forest fire by piling up wood, the implication being
along the lines of the fuel loading you describe in your original
post. It would be like saying that a person dies because they fall
off
a building. As the adage goes, it isn't the fall that kills, but
the
sudden stop at the bottom. If falling killed, the mortality rate
for
sky-divers would be rather high...like 100%. As I said in my
original
reply, fuel loading will certainly exacerbate a fire, but then so
will
exceptionally dry conditions. It's just that neither causes the
fire.


David. Lighten up a little and check the header.. You must be
overworking a bit... ;-)

I did. Once again, people can't seem to understand cause and
effect.

You replied to my message calling me Larry. Clear now?

And the 'cause' of the spontaneous combustion is 'putting wood into a
pile' as specified..

I understand cause and effect just fine.

The cause seems to be overwork. The effect is your previous post..