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"Smugly" (startrek.website)
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[-] pc_admin@aussie.zone 77 points 11 months ago

I'm guessing thick and burny...

[-] qooqie@lemmy.world 72 points 11 months ago

Maybe more like extremely painful into no pain. The pain would be overwhelming any sensation and you’d quickly destroy any receptors in the area plunged, is what I’m saying.

[-] NightLily@lemmy.basedcount.com 47 points 11 months ago

My man you aren't supposed to release need to know information like this on the internet smh. Going to get lemmy shutdown.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

Yeah the only thing I'm wondering about is whether you'd actively feel the pain before the receptors are destroyed. Not sure the brain would start interpreting the catastrophic receptor firing as pain in time for it to matter before the signals just shut down.

[-] Oszilloraptor@feddit.de 17 points 11 months ago

I would be more concerned about phantom pain.

Sure, your fried receptors are not firing anymore; but your head may interpret the absence of any sensory input as pain.

[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 7 points 11 months ago

Only one way to know for sure...

[-] SeabassDan@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

From an evolutionary standpoint I can see how that would be beneficial, which is why those people that don't feel pain at all hurt themselves badly as kids, but it would be nice to lose an arm and orgasm every time my brain decided to do inventory.

[-] Rootiest@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

My friend burned through his finger with a welding torch. He said he didn't feel anything until he took the glove off and saw the carnage.

[-] kepr@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

One time I accidentally touched my hand against an active coil at the top of a 450° oven. I heard the noise, felt the contact, and smelled the hair on my hand, but there was absolutely no pain or burning sensation. The burn was pretty bad and the mark is still visible. Never hurt at all though.

[-] Confused_Emus@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

I'd think being close enough to any amount of lava large enough to plunge your arm into would be putting off a considerable amount of heat. Even if you damage your arm enough to not feel it, the rest of you is gonna be pretty uncomfortable from the radiant heat.

[-] casmael@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

Yeah you know, lava-y

[-] saltesc@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

So, gonorrhea. But a lot and suddenly and for the forearm.

[-] Gleddified@lemmy.ca 69 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 56 points 11 months ago

Your mom's too thick to plunge

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 16 points 11 months ago
[-] Roundcat@lemmy.ca 11 points 11 months ago

But what if that anaconda don't want none?

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago

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

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Boom roasted.

[-] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Roundcat@lemmy.ca 22 points 11 months ago
[-] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago
[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 7 points 11 months ago
[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago
[-] pillars_in_the_trees@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Gerbler@lemmy.ml 11 points 11 months ago

Imagine slipping

[-] curiousaur@reddthat.com 17 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

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

[-] uid0gid0@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months 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.

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ml 15 points 11 months ago

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

[-] bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

Thank you and your apprentices for quantifying this threshold.

[-] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 months ago

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

[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[-] GenderNeutralBro 10 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Sup3rlativ3@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

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

[-] RQG@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago
[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago
[-] cmhickman358@thelemmy.club 7 points 11 months ago

Professor! Lava! Hot!

[-] 99nights@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

Ahh "burny" "melty"

[-] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 18 points 11 months ago
[-] MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[-] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 12 points 11 months ago

“My leg was in half, my bone was sticking out,” he told KHON. “There was blood squirting out.”

Doctors at the Hilo Medical Center were able to save Clinton’s leg, and he’s been ordered to stay off of it for six weeks, the outlet reported.

Jesus christ.

[-] Stern@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

Man who still has both arms gives two thumbs up to lava guy.

Smugly.

[-] gothicdecadence@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago

Damn, I hope he finds it again!

[-] Hardeehar@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I guess, after an instant, all nerves responsible for pain are just vaporized by the lava so it would feel numb or like nothing at all.

I'm guessing he still feels quite dumb, though. Nothing will help that pain go away.

[-] Fixbeat@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago
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