rbarber17
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A couple of recent posts started me thinking. One mentioned Fahrenheit 451, the 1950's science fiction book by Ray Bradbury in which firemen of the future drove around on firetrucks, locating and burning any and all books, which had been totally banned by the government. The cryptic title refers to the ignition temperature of paper. The second post was the one with a link to an article in which LD stated that Jessica would have kept anything of a personal nature locked safely away in her car trunk, since she knew Mom would be snooping around her room, trying to figure out what was frightening her so badly.
My thoughts are this:
Do you think LE has some valuable evidence they salvaged from the trunk? They were certainly very focused on gaining access early on, at least judging from the prying of the trunk lid evident in the photos taken in the impound lot.
JMO
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My thoughts are this:
(1) If there was a diary, or maybe the beginnings of a book, kept in the trunk and it was there the evening of December 6th, could it have survived the fire, or at least significant portions of it?
(2) The temperature inside the trunk would have had to reach 451°F about the temperature of a pretty hot oven before the pages would have spontaneously ignited.
(3) But even then, the amount of oxygen for that burning to continue would have been limited to the oxygen contained inside the airspace of the sealed trunk cavity, so would have eventually burned itself out. Or at least, up until the rubber seals melted and allowed a limited amount of fresh air to be sucked in around the edges of the trunk lid.
(4) Furthermore, a compact object like a book or diary might be very hard to burn completely. Probably at most a few of the pages nearest the front and back covers, and of course the edges of all of the pages, would have been lost to ash. Forgive my saying this, but a significant portion of Jessica survived the fire, and she was out in the open with tons of oxygen. Three things required for combustion: fuel, heat, and oxygen. Remove any one of the three, no combustion.
(2) The temperature inside the trunk would have had to reach 451°F about the temperature of a pretty hot oven before the pages would have spontaneously ignited.
(3) But even then, the amount of oxygen for that burning to continue would have been limited to the oxygen contained inside the airspace of the sealed trunk cavity, so would have eventually burned itself out. Or at least, up until the rubber seals melted and allowed a limited amount of fresh air to be sucked in around the edges of the trunk lid.
(4) Furthermore, a compact object like a book or diary might be very hard to burn completely. Probably at most a few of the pages nearest the front and back covers, and of course the edges of all of the pages, would have been lost to ash. Forgive my saying this, but a significant portion of Jessica survived the fire, and she was out in the open with tons of oxygen. Three things required for combustion: fuel, heat, and oxygen. Remove any one of the three, no combustion.
Do you think LE has some valuable evidence they salvaged from the trunk? They were certainly very focused on gaining access early on, at least judging from the prying of the trunk lid evident in the photos taken in the impound lot.
JMO
:lookingitup: