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[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

jumps into lava for freedom and sinks

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] Geobloke@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Who you calling buoyant?

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] melooone@feddit.org 1 points 1 year ago