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[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm guessing thick and burny...

[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Maybe more like extremely painful into no pain. The pain would be overwhelming any sensation and you’d quickly destroy any receptors in the area plunged, is what I’m saying.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 years ago

My man you aren't supposed to release need to know information like this on the internet smh. Going to get lemmy shutdown.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Yeah the only thing I'm wondering about is whether you'd actively feel the pain before the receptors are destroyed. Not sure the brain would start interpreting the catastrophic receptor firing as pain in time for it to matter before the signals just shut down.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I would be more concerned about phantom pain.

Sure, your fried receptors are not firing anymore; but your head may interpret the absence of any sensory input as pain.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Only one way to know for sure...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

From an evolutionary standpoint I can see how that would be beneficial, which is why those people that don't feel pain at all hurt themselves badly as kids, but it would be nice to lose an arm and orgasm every time my brain decided to do inventory.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

My friend burned through his finger with a welding torch. He said he didn't feel anything until he took the glove off and saw the carnage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

One time I accidentally touched my hand against an active coil at the top of a 450° oven. I heard the noise, felt the contact, and smelled the hair on my hand, but there was absolutely no pain or burning sensation. The burn was pretty bad and the mark is still visible. Never hurt at all though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I'd think being close enough to any amount of lava large enough to plunge your arm into would be putting off a considerable amount of heat. Even if you damage your arm enough to not feel it, the rest of you is gonna be pretty uncomfortable from the radiant heat.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Yeah you know, lava-y

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

So, gonorrhea. But a lot and suddenly and for the forearm.

[–] Gleddified 70 points 2 years ago (4 children)

"Plunging"? I call BS, isn't lava way too thick for that?

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Your mom's too thick to plunge

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Roundcat 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But what if that anaconda don't want none?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I keep coming back and laughing at your comment. I literally only had a drain snake on my mind.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Boom roasted.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I’m pretty sure you’d lose more than just your arm if you were close enough to lava to “plunge” any sort of member into it.

Lava is typically 1300 F/700 C. Just exposure to the heated air around it would instantly burn you all over

[–] Roundcat 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can actually walk on some lava (with boots.)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Imagine slipping

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nah I've been a few feet from flowing lava. It's really really hot, but not like, instant death hot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A few feet, eh? Move one big step closer and tell me how it feels

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

You can do this for yourself at Volcano national Park in Hawai'i. If they still let people into the lava field. We got close enough to poke the new lava with sticks. It's tolerable unless you make the mistake of standing directly over it. Also if you go take flashlights, it's no fun trying to navigate a lava field by moonlight.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I work at a blast furnace, you can get alarmingly close to liquid iron before you are permanently injured.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Thank you and your apprentices for quantifying this threshold.

[–] i_stole_ur_taco 10 points 2 years ago

It's fine as long as you have the high ground.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah. It's molten rock. You can't sink or plunge into it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Just like you can't plunge your arm into melted ice... xD

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Some lava is, other lava not so much.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Professor! Lava! Hot!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

Ahh "burny" "melty"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

“My leg was in half, my bone was sticking out,” he told KHON. “There was blood squirting out.”

Doctors at the Hilo Medical Center were able to save Clinton’s leg, and he’s been ordered to stay off of it for six weeks, the outlet reported.

Jesus christ.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Man who still has both arms gives two thumbs up to lava guy.

Smugly.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Damn, I hope he finds it again!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I guess, after an instant, all nerves responsible for pain are just vaporized by the lava so it would feel numb or like nothing at all.

I'm guessing he still feels quite dumb, though. Nothing will help that pain go away.