Talk:Human Shadow Etched in Stone

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Not vaporized, etc.

This is a topic that has been the subject of persistent myths for many decades now, and many sources that discuss it are just repeating the same myths as other sources. The vaporization temperature of a human being is much higher than the amount of energy exposed to during a flash burn. The shadow is not the person — it is a sign that a person (if it was a person) was there, and intercepted a large amount of thermal energy that otherwise would have lightened the steps. The person would have had their skin burned horribly. Their corpse would have been later disposed of. This is bad enough, without exaggerating the effects. Please take care when adding information that it cites reasonably good sources and faithfully reproduces what they say. NuclearSecrets (talk) 18:47, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]