if you fell into a pool of lava...

[imported_Reck]

how long do you think it'd take to die? i've always wondered...

 

[Modeps]

I think it would happen rather quickly, but it'd still hurt.

 

[z0mb13]

instantly?

 

[dug777]

can we stop these threads already?

quick but bloody painful i suspect to answer you tho...

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Given a rough estimate of, say, 1000 degrees, I'd say you'd pass out from shock within a couple seconds and be medically dead in under twenty.

Bear it mind it would take someone about 30 seconds to "medically die" if their heart was ripped out of their chest.

- M4H

 

[Zysoclaplem]

I doubt you would feel much after a few seconds of being in there. You would probably go into a type of shock. Don't get me wrong, it would hurt. But I don't think it would take the liquid hot magma very long before it burned your nerves to a cinder. I may be wrong.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

an instance of intense pain, then you are liquefied

 

[Otaking]

Would it depend on whether you fell in head-first or feet-first?

 

[Jadow]

if you do fall in, try to remember it's a great time to pay homage to Terminator 2, and go down with your arm raised high and thumbs up!

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Otaking
Would it depend on whether you fell in head-first or feet-first?

Yes......

It would also depend on how deep and how liquid the "pool" is.

If you jumped into the boiling center of a volcano, you would sink all the way into the lava and be killed virtually instantly.

However, if you stepped into a pool of semi-thick magma, and sunk just to the point of it grabbing your shoes(like mud)......

Well, let's just say that would be one hell of an excruciating way to die....

:Q

Actually, you would likely be saved unless you were alone... perhaps minus some toes.....

 

[Squisher]

We need an ATOT investigative reporter.

 

[Iron Woode]

Noooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[apoppin]

are you sure would even SINK in liquid rock?

i think not . . . you'd grill pretty quick laying on a 2,000 degree F bed.

 

[vi edit]

Depending on the size/volume of the pool, you'd maybe pass out from pain/shock before you even hit it. The abient temperature around it depending on the size would probably be enough to make you combust before you even hit the <Dr Evil> Liquid hot mag ma </Dr Evil>.

 

[geno]

You'd probably burst into flames and melt pretty quickly

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: apoppin
are you sure would even SINK in liquid rock?

i think not . . . you'd grill pretty quick laying on a 2,000 degree F bed.

Someone is finally thinking.

The specific gravity of lava is >2 Since our bodies are mostly water, our specfic gravity is ~1. Thus we would not sink in the lava.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
Depending on the size/volume of the pool, you'd maybe pass out from pain/shock before you even hit it. The abient temperature around it depending on the size would probably be enough to make you combust before you even hit the <Dr Evil> Liquid hot mag ma </Dr Evil>.

you can walk right up to the edge of a pool of molten lava on Hawaii . . . it's hot, but not that hot [just really stupid to be so close as the sides can cave in . . . in fact some tourists HAVE fallen into lava pools when the ground crumbles over a molten pool] . . . it's just hard to breathe because of the sulphur, steam, hydrochloric acid and other toxic gases in the air.

but you wouldn't "sink".

oh yeah, i got closer then wisdom would dictate.
:Q

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: z0mb13
instantly?

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
Depending on the size/volume of the pool, you'd maybe pass out from pain/shock before you even hit it. The abient temperature around it depending on the size would probably be enough to make you combust before you even hit the <Dr Evil> Liquid hot mag ma </Dr Evil>.

Good point.

The problem is that we're all imagining different scenarios. There are many, many different types.. or stages rather, of magma/lava.

If the pool was big, deep and hot(liquid) enough, and you "fell in".. yes, you would go..... *bloop*.

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: apoppin
are you sure would even SINK in liquid rock?

i think not . . . you'd grill pretty quick laying on a 2,000 degree F bed.

Someone is finally thinking.

The specific gravity of lava is >2 Since our bodies are mostly water, our specfic gravity is ~1. Thus we would not sink in the lava.

Yes, if somehow you were set gently into a pool of lava, you would not sink.

That's not generally how someone would enter a pool of lava, though.

 

[apoppin]

Volcano Safety Rules {from a Volcanologist}

Cooled
lava flows may look stable to walk on, but the crust may be thin, which
would expose the hiker to a falling into a lava tube. There may even be
flowing lava under a thin crust of aa lava. Falling into an active lava
tube will be instant death.

instant death unless you are Anakin :Q
:roll:

View Lava Safely

Bench collapses are frequent and continuous. In April 1993, one person entered a closed bench area and died when the half-acre he was standing on collapsed. More than twelve others, who were standing nearby, required medical attention. In December 1996, a huge 27 acre bench collapsed into the sea without warning. In May 1998, one person went beyond warning signs, entered a closed bench, and disappeared in the fume cloud. He is still missing and is presumed dead.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: vi_edit
Depending on the size/volume of the pool, you'd maybe pass out from pain/shock before you even hit it. The abient temperature around it depending on the size would probably be enough to make you combust before you even hit the <Dr Evil> Liquid hot mag ma </Dr Evil>.

Good point.

The problem is that we're all imagining different scenarios. There are many, many different types.. or stages rather, of magma/lava.

If the pool was big, deep and hot(liquid) enough, and you "fell in".. yes, you would go..... *bloop*.

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: apoppin
are you sure would even SINK in liquid rock?

i think not . . . you'd grill pretty quick laying on a 2,000 degree F bed.

Someone is finally thinking.

The specific gravity of lava is >2 Since our bodies are mostly water, our specfic gravity is ~1. Thus we would not sink in the lava.

Yes, if somehow you were set gently into a pool of lava, you would not sink.

That's not generally how someone would enter a pool of lava, though.

if you fell from 50 feet you still would not "sink" . . . not very far and it wouldn't make any difference.
:roll:

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: apoppin

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: vi_edit
Depending on the size/volume of the pool, you'd maybe pass out from pain/shock before you even hit it. The abient temperature around it depending on the size would probably be enough to make you combust before you even hit the <Dr Evil> Liquid hot mag ma </Dr Evil>.

Good point.

The problem is that we're all imagining different scenarios. There are many, many different types.. or stages rather, of magma/lava.

If the pool was big, deep and hot(liquid) enough, and you "fell in".. yes, you would go..... *bloop*.

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: apoppin
are you sure would even SINK in liquid rock?

i think not . . . you'd grill pretty quick laying on a 2,000 degree F bed.

Someone is finally thinking.

The specific gravity of lava is >2 Since our bodies are mostly water, our specfic gravity is ~1. Thus we would not sink in the lava.

Yes, if somehow you were set gently into a pool of lava, you would not sink.

That's not generally how someone would enter a pool of lava, though.

if you fell from 50 feet you still would not "sink" . . . not very far and it wouldn't make any difference.
:roll:

I'm listening, but I'm failing to understand how ~150lbs wouldn't make a splash, even in lava? Given a far enough fall, that is...

I'm thinking of the ultra-liquid, activly boiling kind. Not anything that is any distance away from the source and has therefor cooled.

 

[LtPage1]

Originally posted by: apoppin
instant death unless you are Anakin :Q
:roll:

actually, anakin didnt fall in. he was just really close to it/barely touching it, so he ignited from the intense heat. lets get our star wars fact correct around here, shall we?

 

[Mucho]

Not as long as if you fell into a woodchipper.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: apoppin
are you sure would even SINK in liquid rock?

i think not . . . you'd grill pretty quick laying on a 2,000 degree F bed.

Someone is finally thinking.

The specific gravity of lava is >2 Since our bodies are mostly water, our specfic gravity is ~1. Thus we would not sink in the lava.

Hey, good point. Think of how hard belly-flopping off the high dive would hurt - now double the impact.

- M4H