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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"Plunging"? I call BS, isn't lava way too thick for that?

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Your mom's too thick to plunge

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But what if that anaconda don't want none?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I keep coming back and laughing at your comment. I literally only had a drain snake on my mind.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I’m pretty sure you’d lose more than just your arm if you were close enough to lava to “plunge” any sort of member into it.

Lava is typically 1300 F/700 C. Just exposure to the heated air around it would instantly burn you all over

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can actually walk on some lava (with boots.)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Imagine slipping

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah I've been a few feet from flowing lava. It's really really hot, but not like, instant death hot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A few feet, eh? Move one big step closer and tell me how it feels

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

You can do this for yourself at Volcano national Park in Hawai'i. If they still let people into the lava field. We got close enough to poke the new lava with sticks. It's tolerable unless you make the mistake of standing directly over it. Also if you go take flashlights, it's no fun trying to navigate a lava field by moonlight.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I work at a blast furnace, you can get alarmingly close to liquid iron before you are permanently injured.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you and your apprentices for quantifying this threshold.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

It's fine as long as you have the high ground.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. It's molten rock. You can't sink or plunge into it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Just like you can't plunge your arm into melted ice... xD