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Demovictory9

(32,468 posts)
Tue May 8, 2018, 12:56 PM May 2018

Lava vs car (mustang)

https://nypost.com/2018/05/08/creeping-lava-looks-straight-out-of-the-blob-as-it-devours-car/

Mesmerizing — and terrifying — timelapse video shows a wall of lava crawling across a Hawaii road and swallowing up a parked car.

The 30-second footage, taken by Brandon Clement, 38, captures the creeping mound of molten rock from the Kilauea volcano, advancing toward a white Ford Mustang in the Leilani Estates neighborhood Sunday.

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Lava vs car (mustang) (Original Post) Demovictory9 May 2018 OP
No contest. MineralMan May 2018 #1
None. Here lava is about to devour gate Demovictory9 May 2018 #2
It's hard to imagine how much power molten rock has. MineralMan May 2018 #4
How much land is being reclaimed by the lava? Blue_true May 2018 #10
I imagine in lava vs. anything, lava wins. N/t Dave Starsky May 2018 #3
Pretty much. MineralMan May 2018 #5
I would have bet on the Mustang flotsam May 2018 #6
good point Demovictory9 May 2018 #9
Remember the Corvette museum sinkhole collapse? ProudLib72 May 2018 #7
Comeon...left there for insurance? Bengus81 May 2018 #8

MineralMan

(146,323 posts)
4. It's hard to imagine how much power molten rock has.
Tue May 8, 2018, 01:46 PM
May 2018

Tons of pressure and really, really high temperatures. I know they've tried a few times to divert lava flows, but without much success. It just plows through and over everything.

I'm glad I'm not looking at that in person anywhere near my property. I'd like to be able to see it in person, though, but probably never will. No volcanoes in Minnesota.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
10. How much land is being reclaimed by the lava?
Tue May 8, 2018, 07:28 PM
May 2018

Must be difficult for the property owners, there is nothing powerful enough to stop the lava from taking over their property.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
7. Remember the Corvette museum sinkhole collapse?
Tue May 8, 2018, 06:50 PM
May 2018


Ford just had to try and out do Chevy with the lava thing. It's always a battle with these two! SMH
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