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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Terminator

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

jumps into lava for freedom and sinks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Who you calling buoyant?