That was 7ft flames in a sandstone cave. Yes it can happen. No it wouldn’t happen often enough to have killed every single human living in a cave system.
Comment on How did living in caves not backfire on cavemen?
shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 8 months agoIt isn’t just the smoke though, it’s the heat, as I was explaining here when I got this reply. As an on-site out-observer, that much from all of this I do understand (which formed the basis for what I don’t).
TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
PhinaryDivision@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s a matter of statistics. We know that it can cause a collapse, but depending on the cave it’s not often. We don’t want people to get hurt, so we’re going to warn people against generating heat like that. But with a ton of caves, it would have happened irregularly enough for people to be mostly fine.