I don't know... it seemed to work, what's the problem?

It made it angry. Throw in a virgin.

I wonder how many people have accidentally dropped their keys into that?

I have some advice for them.

it's still bugged.

when i was a lad of ten or so, my father, myself and my granddad(the estonian one) went on a short vacation. said vacation included a hike into an active volcano (kilauea if you're curious).

the caldera was awesome(honestly so was hiking across the lava fields. like being on the moon). this HUGE pit with lava(ACTUAL LAVA- most awesome thing to ten year old me, and pretty awesome thing to 32 year old me).

when he figured nobody was looking grandad pulled a water balloon out of his backpack and whipped it into the caldera. grandad had a hell of a throw too because he got that sucker damn near into the middle of the pit.

no huge churning lava blast but there was this echoey/rumbling BOOOOOOM that went on for almost a minute and a fair bit of approximately gravel-sized stuff came back up out of the caldera.

my dad was kinda tweaked 'holy crap dad what the hell were you thinking?!?!' 'vell, joo would haff not trow'n it, ahnd Jaan might not haff gotten it to the lava'


my Estonian grandpa was farking awesome.

That was pretty cool...

...Can we do it again with a large brick of dry ice? For...uh...science, or something.

What if the floor was lava?

cgraves67: It made it angry. Throw in a virgin.

Finally someone filmed it. Human nature, our very instinct, seems to make us need to fling things, or spit, off of high places or into deep holes. For far too many years vulcanologists and other assorted stingy scientists have certainly been throwing shiat into these without sharing. Now we have our own chance to see it. I think pushing a complete auto into one would have to be near the peak of the human experience of throwing things into holes. (twss)

NkThrasher: That was pretty cool...

...Can we do it again with a large brick of dry ice? For...uh...science, or something.



Mythbusters kind of did it

Oh, come on. This was staged. I've seen that Tommy Lee Jones movie. shiat just melts in lava.

You people are idiots to be fooled by this shiat.

As the flames increased in size, I bet the cameraman started to think that they'd triggered a full-scale eruption.

Lando Lincoln: rudemix: Finally someone filmed it. Human nature, our very instinct, seems to make us need to fling things, or spit, off of high places or into deep holes. For far too many years vulcanologists and other assorted stingy scientists have certainly been throwing shiat into these without sharing. Now we have our own chance to see it. I think pushing a complete auto into one would have to be near the peak of the human experience of throwing things into holes. (twss)

It's too bad David Letterman's show was not based out of Hawaii instead of NYC. We would have had a lot of really awesome footage by now.

30 watermelons dropped into lava would be really neat.

Yes it would be!

rudemix: Lando Lincoln: rudemix: Finally someone filmed it. Human nature, our very instinct, seems to make us need to fling things, or spit, off of high places or into deep holes. For far too many years vulcanologists and other assorted stingy scientists have certainly been throwing shiat into these without sharing. Now we have our own chance to see it. I think pushing a complete auto into one would have to be near the peak of the human experience of throwing things into holes. (twss)

It's too bad David Letterman's show was not based out of Hawaii instead of NYC. We would have had a lot of really awesome footage by now.

30 watermelons dropped into lava would be really neat.

Yes it would be!

mythbusters should toss a hot water heater in...you know for SCIENCE

in retrospect i'd have hucked a bottle of propane in.

/cause nothing says SCIENCE like massive explosions...

Pele doesn't appreciate garbage being thrown at her.

Honest Bender:
*what the... uh-oh...*
*uh-oh...*
*UH-OH! WE HAVE UH-OH!*

Copy that, Chopper Dave.

So, pretty much the same thing that would have happened if one of those boulders on the edge came tumbling down.

Someone could dedicate a show to throwing things into lava and I'd watch it.

"Up Next Week: We drive a full gas tanker right into a volcano!!!"

tweek46420: Mythbusters kind of did it

That's exactly what I was thinking of, actually.

Except like, the size of a truck... Into lava.

Honestly, it seems like disposal via lava makes the most sense, I can't imagine anything that could pollute molten rock.

If anything it might help with non biodegradable trash. It burns so fast it might even negate some of the chemical burnoff gasses.

cgraves67: It made it angry. Throw in a virgin.

No, that's only if you need it to rain.

Got my name from the lava in Quake 1. When learning to play it was always ""User Name" does a backflip into the lava." Saw that tag so much had to adopt the name...

What about keys?

Have they studied at all if doing shiat like that on a bigger level helps induce an eruption, stave off an eruption, yadda yadda?

Which volcano is this? How wide is that caldera? Could a stuntman jump it with a motorcycle? Could a 747 fit in it?
What would happen if you were to throw a full size 4th of July aerial shell into it?

Throw in a 50 gal vat of water, but freeze it first. Kinda like throwing an ice cube in a deep fryer. pop!

Whatthefark: Which volcano is this? How wide is that caldera? Could a stuntman jump it with a motorcycle? Could a 747 fit in it?
What would happen if you were to throw a full size 4th of July aerial shell into it?


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Kraftwerk Orange: Tillmaster: As the flames increased in size, I bet the cameraman started to think that they'd triggered a full-scale eruption.

I was thinking they're lucky they didn't trigger a strombolian reaction be allowing pressure to be released too quickly.

I was pretty sure you were making that term up, and ready to respond with a something relating to pepperonic pressures causing a mozzarellan shift in the magma. I'm no geologist, but I'll be damned, that's actually a thing.

Mt. Stromboli is actually fairly near to my grandparents hometown, and now I'm somehow just a bit more ashamed by how easy my heritage makes it for people and Italian jokes.

all that gas that came from the trash being burnt just magically disappears into the air and nothing bad happens at all

Golem?

Tillmaster: As the flames increased in size, I bet the cameraman started to think that they'd triggered a full-scale eruption.

I'm actually guessing the cameraman probably knows more about volcanoes than is taught in cartoons or speculated by average teenagers.

I wonder if someone peed in it first

Lonestar: There is a definite lack of flame in this lava thread. So ill fix it by calling you all idiots and nazi collaborators.

Unpossible. I'm too young to have collaborated with any actual Nazis, and I'm smart enough to know that. Gotcha!

whither_apophis: Treize26: Kraftwerk Orange: Tillmaster: As the flames increased in size, I bet the cameraman started to think that they'd triggered a full-scale eruption.

I was thinking they're lucky they didn't trigger a strombolian reaction be allowing pressure to be released too quickly.

I was pretty sure you were making that term up, and ready to respond with a something relating to pepperonic pressures causing a mozzarellan shift in the magma. I'm no geologist, but I'll be damned, that's actually a thing.

Mt. Stromboli is actually fairly near to my grandparents hometown, and now I'm somehow just a bit more ashamed by how easy my heritage makes it for people and Italian jokes.

The Japanese want to bore a hole through the crust into the mantle, I'm sure it's perfectly safe

The Japanese are pretty smart. They'll probably choose one of the cold parts.

If not, we'll get to watch some of those mid-century movies in HD.

falcon176: all that gas that came from the trash being burnt just magically disappears into the air and nothing bad happens at all

It was largely organic matter (food waste). The vast majority of the volume of gas emitted was steam. The rest was the same that would be emitted from any food waste no matter what you did with it, short of launching it into space (which options has its own environmental considerations). A small proportion was plastic (trash bag), but trash bags are pretty low in mass, so it would be a small proportion. Were it not burned, it would have ended up in a landfill.

There are no perfect answers here. But it's good to keep things in perspective. The environmental impact of all of us watching this video and talking about it probably exceeds whatever the original event created.

pudding7: falcon176: all that gas that came from the trash being burnt just magically disappears into the air and nothing bad happens at all

It was little buckets of lava that brought down the towers on 9/11.

/I have you favorited as a Truther.

I haven't trolled a 9/11 thread in years, you libs just don't get it cuz that lava in this video wouldn't have melted the steel supports enough for building 7 to collapse it had to be a controlled demolition

whither_apophis: The Japanese want to bore a hole through the crust into the mantle, I'm sure it's perfectly safe

At least as safe as their nuclear reactors...or Toyotas.
/IE: not at all.

This is what happens whenever you eat taco bell.

That was a pretty good reaction for a box of trash.

So I'm guessing the first Hawaiian king that discovered this effect had a long and uncontested rule.

Throws an enemy in every now and then just to do it. Nobody effs with the king.

What a satisfying sound as it hit. Assuming it was the actual sound. What a great smack/crack/thwap. Pretty cool.

Grrr, "video no longer available due to copyright claim..."

Sylvia_Bandersnatch: falcon176: all that gas that came from the trash being burnt just magically disappears into the air and nothing bad happens at all

It was largely organic matter (food waste). The vast majority of the volume of gas emitted was steam. The rest was the same that would be emitted from any food waste no matter what you did with it, short of launching it into space (which options has its own environmental considerations). A small proportion was plastic (trash bag), but trash bags are pretty low in mass, so it would be a small proportion. Were it not burned, it would have ended up in a landfill.

There are no perfect answers here. But it's good to keep things in perspective. The environmental impact of all of us watching this video and talking about it probably exceeds whatever the original event created.

given that water vapor is the most potent(but thankfully shortest-lived) greenhouse gas, it's still a concern when you think about scaling it up to large-scale dumping.