Didn't we train for this our entire childhood?
@kin "Don't Step in the Lava!" By Scratch Garden https://youtu.be/7m_MBy0baq0
Don't Step in the Lava! | Volcano Song | Scratch Garden

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@kin Feels like missed chance, that the sign is not reading: The Floor is Lava
@fkrauthan @kin
😂bwaaaahaaaahaaa my whole childhood right there.
@kin I can see my toddler climbing from chair to chair now shouting "THE FLOOR IS LAVA!"
@kin No, all I got was "hey if a nuke happens just duck under the desk or something you'll be fine… I dunno."
@kin I love that a sign is actually required. You know someone’s going to think they can drive over it to get a selfie or just because they don’t want to go the long way around
@kin @KatMA That some people want to take a selfie on the lava, I (unfortunately) don't think is that unlikely.
@kin hup, because that first time we were told "don't touch that" and we did, we got the unfortunate nickname of Stumpy.
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😂
What's not obvious is *for how long* you have to stay off it. At least a year would be a good starting point - personally if the signs were still telling me to keep off after a year I'd keep off.

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Really? They have to put up SIGNS for that? OMG.

@kin it’s probably more of a “suggestion”
@kin you must not be GenX. Our parents told us it was the neighborhood pool and dropped us off every Saturday morning so we could “swim” in it. 🤪

@kin

Have your seen this Netflix show? Cheesy but perhaps more entertaining than you'd think.

@kin I.. wow.. this.. is needed?!?
@kin FOOLS! You think I’m not worthy? Heh, little did you know I have been training for this moment for my entire life! 😎
@kin Girlfriend (now wife) ruined a perfectly good pair of flip flips that way.
@kin minecraft has prepared me well!
@kin This and 🟨 QUICKSAND AHEAD 🟨
@kin but sitting scrunched up in the hallway, shoulder to shoulder, waiting for cold war bombs in the 60s....
@kin I actually just laughed out loud at this
@kin 100,000 years ago we had these signs all over the place.
@kin I’ve been practicing for this my whole life.
@kin Gen X kids were trained to avoid quicksand. Hot quicksand? Duh!
@kin people don’t recognize real danger any more. They live in a fantasy life.
@kin no because it's not the floor
@kin 😂😂😂 and that there people who simple didn’t learn.
@kin How did we survive before lawyers took over the world?!
@dooordah @kin , more people with stumps and no settlements? 😏
Why It Is Possible to Walk on a Lava Flow (But You Still Shouldn't)

There's been some buzz about a video of a fellow "running up a lava flow." Normally, Wired Science blogger Erik Klemetti would ignore videos of people doing dumb things, but he realized that although this guy did run up the lava flow, it actually wasn't as crazy as it seems. DISCLAIMER: This isn't to say you should ever do what this guy did.

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@kin Is lava really all that dangerous? I mean, they put it in lamps.
@kin "i don't know why my shoes are melting..." someone out there, probably.
@kin I did, and apparently there's a widespread fear of lava among children.

@kin :: cracks knuckles and pops neck back and forth ::

It's time. All those times falling off of tables, couches, chairs were not in vain! LoL 😂

@kin I can give it up whenever I want...
@kin Why not a sign saying "Lava Ahead" and let the people decide?

@kin

Ummm have you met humans?

Do not iron clothes while wearing.
Do not drive q-tip into your brain.
Remove plastic before heating.

@kin Things are different on the big island. People check their common sense in at the Hilo airport reception counter.
@kin somehow I think the stuff we were doing in our childhood was slightly lower consequence if we got it wrong 😉
@kin People fall into Yellowstone pools of boiling water all the time and get dissolved. So the warning about walking on hardened lava (with possibly liquid near underneath) is probably a good idea.

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At some level, this should not have to be said.

But here we are.

(and i wish we had a Quote Toot).

@kin I am sure there are footsteps behind the sign...
(Saw footsteps in boiling water in NZ once.)
@Patricia inspiration?
For anyone except @Patricia who are confused:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ9R0e9btH0
The floor is lava, trying to teach C++ - Patricia Aas - Meeting C++ 2022

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@kin
Kinda like 'don't drink bleach'...
@kin LOL.
this game is called "The lava is lava"
@kin 🤣 I guess it's similar to the warning on bleach bottles that says 'do not drink'
@kin will the lava obey the instruction to "stay off"??
@kin I thought that was quicksand we were training for...
@kin so you're saying the lava is lava?