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[dragdeler]

Is it fire tho? Is it using oxygen? I don't think it's strictly correct to call fusion fire.

[King Zultan]

it seems likely that everything on earth will become fuel for that cosmic fire, and everything will burn.  Even things not usually considered flammable.

Just goes to show that if you try hard enough that anything can burn if you try hard enough.

[Kagus]

In the immortal words of the fire giant champion from Lords of Magic; "Everything burns"

[McTraveller]

But... can you burn fire?

[Frumple]

I... think so? Sorta'? At the absolute least it's possible to add more fire to fire to make it go out faster, iirc, which is, like. Close enough.

[scriver]

I... think so? Sorta'? At the absolute least it's possible to add more fire to fire to make it go out faster, iirc, which is, like. Close enough.

Indeed. You can test this by using two matches. Light both, hold one under the other. The length of the flame grows longer. That's because the lower match is setting the flame itself on fire

[dragdeler]

Nothing will ever convince me that every installer replacing the shortcuts they create on desktop with symbolic links / hardlinks isn't just another blatant attempt to decrease computer literacy.

[Rolan7]

Researching ancient Greek/Mycean gods and suddenly imagining myself back in a city of the time, during a thunderstorm at night, observing the lightning strikes which inspired the bundle Zeus carries.

Times like that are when I am most... observant, in my beliefs.  Is that timeless?

[Magmacube_tr]

Times like that are when I am most... observant, in my beliefs.  Is that timeless?

I would say that it is. I also get spiritual when overt natural events happen. Though mine are less religious and more philosophical.

[TD1]

Researching ancient Greek/Mycean gods and suddenly imagining myself back in a city of the time, during a thunderstorm at night, observing the lightning strikes which inspired the bundle Zeus carries.

Times like that are when I am most... observant, in my beliefs.  Is that timeless?

Or when sickness plagued those self-same cities until one man said 'this is not the gods, go thee religious hence from my cave of healing' and accidentally founded modern medicine, giving us his Hippocratic oath to mutter against fools and charlatans.

Edit: Unless the tone wasn't clear, I'm deliberately pontificating.

[Maximum Spin]

The Hippocratic oath was literally sworn in the names of the gods and goddesses of medicine.

[TD1]

I mean, if we're being serious, then yes. Though I'd also add that Hippocrates likely didn't write it, and that an evocation of the gods was pretty common in... pretty much everything, but especially oaths.

My understanding is that Ancient Greece evoked gods in active healing processes. Entering a dream of healing, for instance, to determine what Asclepius desired your healing journey to be.

Hippocrates focused on empirical evidence to arrive at a treatment methodology. Granted, his methodology was flawed and overly-fixated on diet as causing disease. But nevertheless, it removed interpretative dream-visions and divine intervention from the equation.

[MaxTheFox]

Spoiler: A teaser! (click to show/hide)

[Rolan7]

With candles, the wick isn't what's burning.
I was taught that it was, but that the candle-wax was "slowing the burn" somehow.  The kind of nonsense answer a child gets.  In this case I never reexamined it, because who cares about candles?

Fallen London cares about candles.

Flaky, creamy, combustible

"There is a lack", I once set as a status, and my friends grew concerned for me.  I thought it was a level of Unaccountably Peckish, but it wasn't.  Technically.  It was my interpretation of it.
I'm glad they were concerned for me.  Well, she, but she went by they at the time.  My other "friends" let me cook.  Melt.
Sublimate?

[Egan_BW]

I'd rather change phase than combust. Solid or fluid, either works in the proper context.