Scientist almost killed by lava lake (with Richard Hammond!) - General

Why can't a huge lava creature emerge from the pit, growling in a very deep demonic voice to the scientists, while lava and smoke drools out of its mouth and cracks?

[QUOTE=Thechuz1337;34807340]Oh god the way it splashes, getting one drop to land onto you would make me crazy.[/QUOTE] It wouldn't make you crazy, it would make you dead. If a drop of the stuff lands on your chest it's not going to cause a burn, it's going to make its way through your body, and it's going to ignite your cloths if you're not wearing protective gear. [editline]22nd February 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Bat-shit;34815931]Why can't a huge lava creature emerge from the pit, growling in a very deep demonic voice to the scientists, while lava and smoke drools out of its mouth and cracks?[/QUOTE] Because lava creatures don't exist

[QUOTE=Glorbo;34817359]Because lava creatures don't exist[/QUOTE] :(

The scientist reminds me of a bear trying to get honey. [QUOTE=Dysgalt;34811777]Fun fact about this lava lake, you often have to take armed guides into there due to typical African politics. Heard this from a documentary I watched about the volcano, I forget the title though think it was Netgeo or Discovery.[/QUOTE] Now I'm imagining several people with rifles telling the scientist to come with them. And the scientist going "Fuck it" and throwing lava samples at them. Or armed guards taking out a lava creature.

How exactly do you collect a lava sample? you know, without melting the container?

That is one bad-ass scientist. Also What is that sample jar made from? It didn't melt?

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAymSMrOlOQ[/media] I want to play with lava now.

He should have brought a bucket of water.

[QUOTE=GreenLeaf;34817623]How exactly do you collect a lava sample? you know, without melting the container?[/QUOTE] Easy- You don't use a plastic bottle for your lava samples

[QUOTE=Glorbo;34818060]Easy- You don't use a plastic bottle for your lava samples[/QUOTE] so what the fuck DOESN'T melt when it comes into contact with lava? and on top of that is light enough for one man to carry!

And I still think of it as liquid fire

[QUOTE=GreenLeaf;34818316]so what the fuck DOESN'T melt when it comes into contact with lava? and on top of that is light enough for one man to carry![/QUOTE] Lots of things? Ceramics would be a big one. [editline]22nd February 2012[/editline] Or a container filled with water

It wasn't really an escape, they just edited it to seem like it was. Still, that's very brave of him to stay that close to it.

[QUOTE=GreenLeaf;34818316]so what the fuck DOESN'T melt when it comes into contact with lava? and on top of that is light enough for one man to carry![/QUOTE] Tungsten melts at around 3000C or a high temperature ceramic, lava is usually around 700-1000c so I think the container would fair well if properly insulated/cooled.

[QUOTE=GreenLeaf;34818316]so what the fuck DOESN'T melt when it comes into contact with lava? and on top of that is light enough for one man to carry![/QUOTE] A steel or ceramic bucket will do the trick. Lava isn't [i]that[/i] hot, and it will cool quite quickly when taken away from the main flow. Hell, you can pick the stuff up with a shovel and you won't hurt the blade, even if you leave it there until it solidifies.

[QUOTE=Glorbo;34817359]It wouldn't make you crazy, it would make you dead. If a drop of the stuff lands on your chest it's not going to cause a burn, it's going to make its way through your body, and it's going to ignite your cloths if you're not wearing protective gear.[/QUOTE] Oh come on, lava is freakin' hot, sure, but it's not going to go through human flesh like its ice. Lava, being liquid rock, is pretty thick stuff. A little glob from a splash will probably put a hole in your clothes and give you a nasty damn burn where it hits the skin, but it'll only be for a moment before it just rolls off you. It's not likely to be hot and runny enough to adhere to your skin or anything; it doesn't have the surface tension properties or the lacking viscosity of water. Like I said, a dude got his ass thighs-deep or so in some of that shit and made a full recovery once. It's badass stuff, but unless you got caught at a vent where the stuff is at the hottest humans will ever typically experience, it's not all the movies and your imagination might tell you.

[QUOTE=danelo;34820515]It wasn't really an escape, they just edited it to seem like it was. Still, that's very brave of him to stay that close to it.[/QUOTE] Yeah, I was hoping the whole time that it would actually show him running away from an oncoming flow Hollywood-style, but then they cut to close-ups of just the lava... [editline]23rd February 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=J-Dude;34829957]Oh come on, lava is freakin' hot, sure, but it's not going to go through human flesh like its ice. Lava, being liquid rock, is pretty thick stuff. A little glob from a splash will probably put a hole in your clothes and give you a nasty damn burn where it hits the skin, but it'll only be for a moment before it just rolls off you. It's not likely to be hot and runny enough to adhere to your skin or anything; it doesn't have the surface tension properties or the lacking viscosity of water. Like I said, a dude got his ass thighs-deep or so in some of that shit and made a full recovery once. It's badass stuff, but unless you got caught at a vent where the stuff is at the hottest humans will ever typically experience, it's not all the movies and your imagination might tell you.[/QUOTE] Yeah, movies and video games generally have lava [i]completely[/i] wrong and it's warped a lot of people's perception of how it works as a substance. It isn't some all-powerful substance that instantly melts anything it comes into contact with. Wired had a very interesting article on how lava works if you were to fall into it: [url]http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/12/the-right-and-wrong-way-to-die-when-you-fall-into-lava/[/url] tl;dr: It won't insta-melt you and you won't sink into it. You'll float and get fucking horrible burns, but your legs won't suddenly liquefy the moment they pierce the surface. You also won't die instantly like one person mentioned earlier in this thread; you'll suffer horrible pain as you burn to death.

[QUOTE=CP-26;34806614]Professor! Lava! Hot![/QUOTE] You need a real life medal for that, I cant breathe I'm laughing so much.

[QUOTE=Timebomb575;34820402]Lots of things? Ceramics would be a big one. [editline]22nd February 2012[/editline] Or a container filled with water[/QUOTE] [img]http://www.caboodle.co.uk/images/product/extraLarge/2/I32481_L.jpg[/img] One of these bastards. They hold shit like McDonald's coffee, one of the hottest substances known to mankind with ease :v:

[QUOTE=MILKE;34812345]I cant think of any worse death than fall in lava. It frightens me[/QUOTE] drowning in water

[QUOTE=-TRASE-;34845371]drowning in water[/QUOTE] drowning in lava