There is not a bank account big enough to pay me well enough to take on a job like this. These scientists are monitoring the current flow as it happens on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Kris said,
Heh. I’ve heard stories of people walking out over the lava on a hot day and burning the soles of their shoes. Cannot even imagine the heat that is generated this close to the flow.
kelly said,
oh my. That looks beyond hot. I’ve had the soles of my shoes melt on NYC blacktop. I’ve lost a shoe in a puddle of gooey melted blacktop in summer on someone’s roof. But a live lava flow? Why the need to monitor it so closely? That seems a might crazy.
paradisefound said,
Kelly, they get that close because they drop coffee cans into the red hot lava and pull samples out. They are apparently testing the chemical makeup of the lava: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/hawaiiactivity/lava3.html
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July 25, 2007 @ 9:55 am
Do they have a/c in their shoes?
I think I’d choose the bright orange suit if that were my job. But like you, that would NEVER be my job.