Ever wonder what would happen if you jumped into a lake of lava?

Violently gushing lava bubbles , that ’s what . watchword around the cyberspace is thatunless you ’re sporting a hyperalloy endoskeleton , take a chance areyou’re not dense enough to actually sinkinto a pool of roiling magma .

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This has to do with the fact that lava is more than three times as thick as water , and well over 100,000 times as viscid . Wired ’s Eric Klemetti compare a homo seek to dunk him- or herself in lava to a piece of styrofoam be adrift on a pool of motor vegetable oil . sinking feeling obviously becomes even less practicable , when the lava start to cool and form a Earth’s crust . immersion just is n’t going to happen .

But just for fun , let ’s take a flavour at what would happen if you decided to intrust lava - cide by doing something outrageous — like , oh , I do n’t know , doing a round shot from a tiptop of 80 meters . That ’s how high the people in the television up top were when they lobbed a 30 kg cup of tea of organic wastefulness into the lava lake at Ethiopia ’s Erta Ale volcano , and it looks like it wangle to penetrate the lava ’s crust just fine , thank you very much .

Still , one ca n’t avail wonder if this cup of tea managed to penetrate the lava precisely because there was a thin crust over the lava ’s aerofoil . How might this scenario have played out had that travelling bag landed in a stone pit of blistering , impudent lava ? After all , coming into contact with pee is tell to be corresponding to landing on concrete at high enough velocity . give that that bag was drop from a height of 80 metre , it was traveling close to 90 miles per hour by the time it reached the lava . gain water at 90 statute mile per minute is a frightening enough persuasion as it is . Hitting something three times as dense , and up to a million metre as viscous as water at 90 mile per hour ? It makes me a little fed up just think about it . [ Photovolcanica ]

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