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    Oh man, he’s going to be so disspaointed when he gets home and it’s all just rocks. It’s like the time I bottled a piece of a cloud in Costa Rica and opened it up to just find a slightly damp bottle.

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      That’s why you’re supposed to get your hair braided into corn rows and a Puka shell necklace to remember your trip. Those last forever.

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    Is that an OSHA approved hand over the face to keep from breathing the poisonous gas?

    I’m kind of surprised it’s not hot enough to boil off all the water in that little bucket pretty quickly, bit obviously it isn’t.

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      I’m no lavatorial expert, but I’d guess the thermal conductivity of lava is relatively low. The high temp and high mass will keep it warm for a while, but water has a pretty high conductivity and capacity on its own. The agitation is distributing the heat too, well beyond the regular convection rate.

      I would guess.

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        I’m not thinking that “lavatorial” is the correct word.

        That conjures “lavatory”, which is something different.

        For the science, yeah, more than enough water to cool the lava.

        That’s just my experience. If someone does the math, I’ll love them.

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      Was gunna say, looks like he’s looting the lava more than doing a carefully controlled scientific procedure.

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        That was from the last guy who did this job and died under mysterious circumstances. Nothing to worry about.

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      With enough time, it will definitely boil off. You can see as the lava is cooling it’s transferring the heat to the water. The water is then converting to a gas (steam).

      I wonder how hot the metal bucket is though. Can probably get 4-5 pick axes worth of lava before it melts the bucket

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      What surprises me is no way to carry the bucket away afterward; You would have to put your hand over the bucket, in the steam. Gloved or not, it does not seem very safe.

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        If it really is just getting the lava down to boiling water temperature, or even a bit higher, that thin metal handle will dissipate that heat pretty quickly. A glove should be fine.

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    That’s so weird. Why doesn’t he just fill the bucket with lava? That way he can place a lava source block wherever he wants! Maybe set fire to his friends creations in the process.

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        The hottest lava gets about 200C lower than the melting point of what looks like stainless steel. And the water inside will actually wick that temperature from the outside into the water pretty effectively.

        That’s also why you can boil water in a paper cup by placing it over a flame. The water eats the eat like a hungry jiraffe.

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          A vital detail you forgot to mention is that water can store an absurd amount of heat even before it boils, and when it starts boiling it stops getting warmer and instead simply takes boils faster and faster the more heat is applied.

          It’s honestly basically magic.

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            and when it starts boiling it stops getting warmer and instead simply takes boils faster and faster the more heat is applied

            Isn’t that how most matter behaves? An example of a process that seemingly relies on that, is distillation, which I imagine would be impossible to do, if once the boiling point is reached, the heat didn’t [stop going towards raising the temperature and instead going towards the vaporization enthalpy]

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                Ah, sorry. I had the impression you were saying that water was unusual in that regard («It’s honestly basically magic» misled me).

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    Personally I would scoop the lava away from myself but I’m no volcanologist.

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    I would pay to be allowed to scoop some lava into a bucket. It looks so weird and I really want to poke it. How many people get to say they willingly got to handle lava!

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      I hiked out to the lava flows in Hawaii when you were still allowed to. It’s pretty cool, but also super scary.

      You have to hike for miles over fresh lava flow which creates one of the most difficult terrains imaginable. Imagine rippling hills made of cheese graters and razorblades. And the lava heats the air, so it’s like 130°f. And you have to touch the ground constantly, if it’s too hot to touch or your shoes are melting, or if you hear any cracking, it means you’re likely in top of a lava tube that can crumble away from your weight dropping you into lava.

      You have to sit through a 45 minute long safety video before they let you out there, which also explains that due to the heat and the drafts, helicopters can’t get out there, so if you get into trouble, even just succumbing to heat stroke it twist an ankle bad enough that you can’t walk, no one can help you. You need to bring a lot of water.

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      Developers want us to think these are the kinds of dangers they go through writing a program.

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      Which would still be accurate as Java is widely used in Geospatial software. That in itself can also be considered “playing with fire”.