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"Spontaneous" doesn't mean what you think it means.
It doesn't take a lack of understanding of the word to arrive at the guy's conclusion. It just takes an autistic reading of the word "water". Water WILL boil in those conditions. Just like we don't say water "spontaneously" boils when heated up in a kettle even though it's the exact same thing happening.
So in the abstract, the guy is correct. Though, there is also a bottle of water in the picture, and when discussing which specific water will boil, it's a guessing game, hence "spontaneous". "Spontaneous" totally works for discussing the water in the picture.
One of the things that "spontaneous" doesn't mean is "without cause". Also, the astronaut doesn't mention the water in the picture. She mentions water generally.
Like I said, it takes an autistic reading of the text.
"Autistic" doesn't mean what you think it means. I'd characterize your use of the word as discriminatory and offensive.
No, you just don't understand it yourself. Many social quirks and awkwardness is because of these sorts of abnormal thought patterns that make people arrive at weird conclusions. They are in fact, an important part of diagnosing autism vs scizophrenia and many other mental disorders, as in some situations, these weird conclusions can make someone seem pretty loony, or make them shut down socially when they realize they've misunderstood. So you being offended by this explanation just means you do not understand nor empathise with autistic people.
I'm not saying these are the only things that make someone autistic, or that all autistic people will have such peculiar trains of thought. Just that it is common in the realm of such disorders. Autism is a MASSIVE spectrum, because it describes symptoms, not causes.
So while this type of behavior might eventually get fully separated from autism in to things like social communication disorder, that's more of a consequence of psychiatrists/etc slowly picking appart that massive umbrella of "autism", not that it wasn't or isn't currently part of it.
This guy seems to think it's equivalent to "by magic".