. . . . their camera's infrared capabilities did not pick up evidence of a body at the base of the tree where Bomjon sat during their non-stop recording.
Duh? DUH??? The film provides solid evidence that the kid was not actually there full-time! How much more evidence do you need to dismiss this as bullshit?
According to scientists on the documentary, an average person would be expected to die from kidney failure after four days without drinking any fluids (although cases of inedia lasting for a whole week have been observed and the recorded Guinness World Record of inedia is eighteen days).
Once again, we have solid evidence, this time evidence that the observation wasn't long enough. The meaning of "average," for those of you who slept through your statistics class, is that some people will be above average and some will be below. Rather a lot, actually, because few people are precisely average. So perhaps this kid is above average. That's no miracle. Keep the camera on him for four weeks--several days beyond the world record--and see if he's still alive then!
The boy showed no signs of classical physical deterioration caused by dehydration. A close inspection by the film crew of the area around the tree where Ram was sitting revealed no hidden food supply or water pipes.
"Where he was sitting" during the daylight hours only!
It was already checked that there was no hidden nutrient supplies. I was thinking he probably can absorb water from his surrounding air, absorb minerals from the soils, and vitamins (at least D) from the sun.
Under these conditions, a person would indeed absorb some water from the atmosphere, but it would be a trivial quantity, not enough to sustain life. We're not plants, we can't absorb minerals from the soil. We don't
absorb vitamin D from the sun; we absorb the ultraviolet component of the solar radiation, and that triggers a photochemical process in which our own body synthesizes the vitamin D out of chemicals that are already there.
In any case, even if a person had a way to acquire an adequate supply of water, vitamins and minerals, he would still die of sheer starvation once his body metabolized all of its fat reserves. A pound of fat (454gm) would provide enough calories to keep a young boy (I have no idea how big he is) alive for a few days if he is completely inactive. So he would need to be roughly 50 pounds overweight (22kg) in order to survive for eight months by burning his body fat.
If he had a source of water, vitamins and minerals!
In my country (and I guess in many other places in the world), people who do meditation AND martial arts can break woods, bricks, steel plates, etc with empty hands. They can absorb energy from surrounding and turning it into powerful inner energy.
That is not how it works. They are not "absorbing energy" from their surroundings. They are using the laws of physics (often knowingly) and taking advantage of the structural properties of the materials by focusing the power of their strike appropriately.
You know, like in kung-fu, those people are strong. I've seen in live and colour how people break ice blocks with empty hands. Don't you think such stuffs are possible?
We've all seen that. But there's nothing supernatural about it. It's just physics.
. . . . you can put it in the same category as swimming underwater like a fish, flying in the air like a bird, detecting things at night like a bat . . . .
We can swim underwater, but
not like a fish. Its more like a dolphin: we don't have gills like fish so we have to come to the surface to breathe. And we don't fly in the air like birds. We build machines that glide like birds, but that's not flying. And we build machines that fly, but they don't fly anything at all like the way birds fly. Some of them use rotating airfoils for propulsion, others use jet engines. We don't detect things at night like a bat. Bats use sonar; we generally use infrared photography.
. . . . if this was a discussion about how it could be made possible by the strength of scientific endeavor as opposed to something traditionally associated with religion, you would have hordes of chaps coming in and citing their favorite sci-fi plot . . . .
Some science fiction is written by scientists and is plausible, merely awaiting the future progress of technology to catch up with our imagination. But much (perhaps most) of it is just as much bullshit as religion. The difference is that we don't expect people to believe it and we certainly don't go around killing them and overthrowing their sovereign governments for that skepticism.
as he sits