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  • so you're frying some bacon with a drop of hot oil pops and lands right on your hand out.

  • Now imagine the same thing happening, but it's lava.

  • Your bacon will definitely be burned.

  • But what about your hand?

  • You'd probably be saying other words besides ouch, which we can't repeat lava.

  • It's the stuff that flows from volcanoes and starts out as something called magma, also known as hot liquid rock.

  • Magma earns its lava status one to gather some courage and comes out of its shell.

  • I mean, when it surfaces.

  • It's not just a terminology thing that magma also loses some gases and assets when it gets its new name tag.

  • So exactly how hot is the stuff?

  • Well, that depends on how fresh it ISS lover.

  • Here, Get your fresh hot lava right here takes a lot of its hottest when it first erupts from underground and cools down as it flows.

  • You could make an educated guess of his temperature based on the color love a temp 101 But brighter, the hotter.

  • It starts out bright orange and burning at about 2000 degrees Fahrenheit.

  • Then it cools down to bright red about 1600 degrees.

  • Dark red, 1300 degrees, brownish red, 1000 degrees and finally, black.

  • When it's hard 2000 degrees Think of the hottest day you could ever bear.

  • What was it?

  • 100?

  • Something outside.

  • Multiply that by 20 and now a mansion, a drop of it falling on your hand.

  • Who put it this way?

  • Let's see your cat like reflexes pulls your arm away before the lava can make contact.

  • Well, it just continue its gravity driven journey and burn through your floor and maybe drip dropping through the neighbor's ceiling and floor below.

  • Though remember, this stuff is liquid rock, and it cools down.

  • When it's not 100 miles below the surface of the earth.

  • It's still have a fire to deal with, So grab the extinguisher fast.

  • Wait, Where'd you get this love, anyway?

  • In some kind of indestructible dropper that keeps it hot enough to remain liquefied?

  • Do they sell those online?

  • Fine, we'll go with it.

  • So if the floor couldn't stop it, you can go ahead and call that soft, fleshy arm of yours.

  • Lava lunch.

  • You ever see those videos of people melting metal and pouring it on stuff I imagine you'd have yourself and in one side out the other situation on your hand literally.

  • But if it's a tiny drop, it be more like a new lava real estate.

  • The gooey, fiery stuff would eventually cool.

  • Harden and stick to your skin.

  • Your new mole would still burn like the chickens.

  • Don't you doubt it?

  • But here's the good news.

  • You wouldn't feel the scorching pain, at least not right away.

  • Your nerves would be burned before you have that time to react, to take away.

  • Never, ever touch lava.

  • But you know that.

  • So let's stir things up.

  • Let's try a little hypothetical thought experiment.

  • Imagine you can withstand the temperatures, your superhuman like those people who can swallow hot lead.

  • But you're even more epic with an insatiable hunger to test your powers.

  • Even when you were little, you always like food with a kick.

  • You could eat the hottest buffalo wings in the city while grown adults were reaching for that glass of milk.

  • After a couple bites, you were asking for more hot sauce.

  • As a team, you could drink the hottest hot sauce like water as her actual water.

  • You could chug it from a boiling pot.

  • Doctors couldn't explain your abilities.

  • Your ah phenomenon.

  • You make headlines.

  • Your journey continued.

  • After college, you decide to find the hottest pepper on the planet, that Carolina Reaper.

  • This pepper has been known to send people to the hospital.

  • It can literally burn your tongue.

  • Thes horror stories on Lee attract you so you book a ticket to South Carolina immediately.

  • You arrive at a local plantation, and the farmer gives you the right pissed, reddest, hottest peppers guy.

  • You take a deep breath, bite off half and nothing you don't feel the spice on Lee.

  • A sweet taste, confused and upset.

  • You eat a few more of the red grin Clea peppers, but still feel nothing.

  • All the shock farmer can say is the only thing hotter than this.

  • Pepper is lava itself.

  • Well, he might have been joking, but even weeks later, you can't get those words out of your head.

  • What if you try Just a drop?

  • Would love a beer.

  • Perfect hot sauce.

  • One you've searched for your whole life.

  • Your curiosity brings you to Hawaii, home of the most active volcano in the world.

  • Kill away a red hot love flows from it all the time, like tentacles of fiery rivers reaching out in all directions.

  • The idea of tasting the deepest, oldest part of his planet it consumes you.

  • Sounds poetic, but it's true.

  • You see, it's hot enough to melt rock underground, and the deeper you go, the higher the temperatures get.

  • Eventually, you reach the core.

  • The heart of our planet has been burning since the beginning.

  • Veins of magma flow up from the outer core through the mantle and towards the surface, sometimes especially thick.

  • Magma builds up so much pressure that it gets blown out in an explosive eruption.

  • That's the more theatrical type of display.

  • There are also effusive eruptions where thin, runny lava just slowly and quietly oozes out.

  • Yeah, not is exciting.

  • Anyway.

  • It's time to taste, kill away.

  • You start your scent, ignoring the crusty dark specimens.

  • Not hot enough, remember, you climb higher where the lava will be brighter, fresher and hotter.

  • You take out a cast iron spoon.

  • Here it is the moment of truth.

  • You scoop up a small amount of lava, feel its heat and let a couple drops fall in your mouth.

  • Oh, yeah, it's really hot.

  • You finally feel it.

  • But what a disgusting taste.

  • Like eating rights?

  • Yuck!

  • No doubt about it.

  • You haven't found the perfect ultimate hot sauce, but you can't enjoy the enchanting and terrifying view of the volcano.

  • The lava lake below boils like a rich soup.

  • Thick, hot fumes rise into the air because of them, you would have passed out long before you even made it to the rim to enjoy the few.

  • But we'll ignore that part, standing there feeling a little disappointed but still in awe.

  • You can't help but wonder what if someone fell in?

  • You might have a stomach of steel, but you decide not to try your luck.

  • Plus, you vaguely recall that a certain light bulb inspired YouTube channel made a really fun and informative video about falling into a volcano.

  • May have to re watch that you say to yourself as you descend the mountain and head back home.

  • Wow, what a trip!

  • I think I want some buffalo wings now.

  • Anyway.

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