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Lava is rocks. Liquid rocks is still rocks.
Yeah but salt is rocks and that stuff is delicious
Yeah, but since it’s a liquid it doesn’t have the texture of solid rock.
And it’s quite heavy, being rock and all. So imagine very weighty honey.
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.
I always thought that it just looks like they sink because their bodies are instantly vaporized at the point where they meet the lava.
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
Gollum at the end of Lord of the Rings. Apart from that I’m not sure
I wonder what the surface tension of magma is, anyway thanks, I had forgotten that one
Terminator
Hey, asshole, don’t you tell me how dense I am, I’m an AMERICAN
jumps into lava for freedom and sinks
Who you calling buoyant?
Depends on the exact composition but most lavas are going to be way more viscous than honey.
Does “very thick” mean nothing to you?
So… Treacle?
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The viscosity of most lava is about that of ketchup, roughly 10,000 to 100,000 times that of water
'a’ā or pāhoehoe?
Imagine the terminology if instead of it coming from the study of the Hawaiian volcano system, it came from the Icelandic one.
Then we’d be memorizing words like herliaphongoffjlyur.'a’ā looks like it would fizz like pop rocks.
It’s gotta be pahoehoe (the one that looks like honey being stirred)
You can eat anything once. If your brave enough.
When does something count as being eaten - once you swallow it? I don’t think you’d succeed at that with lava.
You’d be able to taste it which I think would fulfill the requirements of knowing its texture.
pretty sure the taste buds die before they can send their report to the brain.
People who eat the Carolina reaper prove that this is both not a deterrent, and may in fact be the point. On the other hand I’ve never heard any of them talk about the texture afterward. So maybe the burning is too distracting.
As someone who’s eaten many sauces and spice blends that incorporate Carolina reaper peppers, spiciness isn’t the same as temperature with regard to heat. Lava’s heat is physically destructive and one’s tongue would likely be immediately burned beyond recognition. One wouldn’t have time to assess the “taste” or texture at all before writhing in agony from severe burns.
In contrast, I can eat a hot sauce made from super hot peppers and, while I’m in agony from the extremely potent capsaicin in the peppers, I haven’t damaged my tongue in the process so I can actually taste the flavor and detect the texture of the food.
Just shove an insulated hose through your esophagus and out your bunhole and pass lava through it
Holy mackerel
Silicon coated fiberglass should work. Just make sure the cuts are clean or you’re gonna get itchy.
In fact, lava is so nutritious it will fill you up for the rest of your life!
I’ve had it in cake form. Pretty good.
I choose to believe you’re taking about having pica, not eating a molten chocolate cake.
you’re missing out
I imagine it tastes like sand but spicy
Gotta taste pretty sulfurous right?
Ice is a mineral. Thus, water is lava. Hence, you eat lava every day, and it is not the texture of thick honey. QED.
Gate to be the party pooper but lava is specifically molten rock, and rock is a mixture of multiple minerals. As single mineral is not rock. (As far as a quick Google is verifying, open to correction by an expert)
Saltwater it is!
Does Hank Green count?
Furthermore, by your definition of rock, basically all crystals are not rocks. Quartz is a single mineral. It is also considered a rock. As are all other gemstones which are a single mineral. If you think impurities count then again water counts because it has minerals like fluoride and carbonate and halite (salt) in it.
Now one could make the argument that lava is specifically molten rock extruded from beneath the surface of a terrestrial planetary body to its surface. In which case, water on earth doesn’t typically fit that description unless it’s like melted permafrost that melted before getting drawn to the surface or something.
However, on a very cold terrestrial planetary body which was comprised partly of ice, thermal vents / volcanoes would produce water and it would fit the definition of lava. Water is certainly lava in that context.
Considering that physics is assumed consistent across the universe, water viscosity would have the same range regardless of where in the universe it was. Ergo, the water you drink may not be earth lava but it is the exact same viscosity as the water that is lava.
So you still know what the mouthfeel of lava is even if you’ve never ingested any “real” lava.
Sidenote, if you really do want to figure out how silicate lava feels, you could probably find the dynamic viscosity of a certain lava flow and then create caramel under the right conditions to get approximately the same viscosity. Eating butter and sugar might not be healthy but it definitely is less immediately damaging than pouring 700°C fluids into your mouth.
Conclusion: mineral water is lava
I’d imagine something like this
mmm forbidden spicy honey
You absolutely can eat lava… Once
I dunno, eating implies swallowing, I’m not convinced you could definitely get there.
Some kinds would be foamy, so like very thick cake batter.
