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Old 12-05-2009, 09:32 PM   #18
Grouchy Chris
 
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Default Re: That wonderful stuff: Lava

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Originally Posted by Rev. Pee Kitty View Post
The short answer is that it would be entirely reasonable to say that anyone close to molten lava/magma should take about half the damage that they'd take from actually falling in.
Lava isn't that dangerous to approach. You can light a cigarette off of it. Here's a couple videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf9T5ZdAQX0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDpf_FVo0MM

On the other hand, you might burn your beard. As this link, a tourist describes that happening to him while he was scooping lava rocks out of a flow with a stick:http://thegramercypark.blogspot.com/...p-volcano.html

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