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[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Yeah. You know all those is movies and stuff where people sink in lava?

Nope. It's too dense. You'd be so buoyant you'd just stay on top.

[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I always thought that it just looks like they sink because their bodies are instantly vaporized at the point where they meet the lava.

[-] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Hey, asshole, don't you tell me how dense I am, I'm an AMERICAN

jumps into lava for freedom and sinks

[-] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I must not watch the right things, I don't recall ever seeing media of a person sinking in lava. The closest was the Terminator being immersed in molten metal, but he was probably more dense than the molten metal being made of room temperature metal

[-] faercol@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago

Gollum at the end of Lord of the Rings. Apart from that I'm not sure

[-] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

I wonder what the surface tension of magma is, anyway thanks, I had forgotten that one

[-] melooone@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago
[-] Geobloke@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

Who you calling buoyant?

this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2024
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