The viscosity of most lava is about that of ketchup, roughly 10,000 to 100,000 times that of water
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 imagine it tastes like sand but spicy
Gotta taste pretty sulfurous right?
You absolutely can eat lava… Once
I’d imagine something like this
'a’ā or pāhoehoe?
'a’ā looks like it would fizz like pop rocks.
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.