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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.

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Who you calling buoyant?

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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

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

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

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Terminator

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I always thought that it just looks like they sink because their bodies are instantly vaporized at the point where they meet the lava.

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