The next time you find yourself walking on a lava lake (a thin crust of dried lava covering a pool of molten goo), be careful. Scientists wondered what would happen if a human fell through the crust and into the really hot stuff. At Ethiopia’s Erta Ale volcano, they dropped a garbage bag filled with food waste (a facscimile of a human body) to see the result. It’s not pleasant:
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