That accurately represents how my moods work. Totally calm until presented with a minor annoyance…
Nah, the trick is that Mount doom wasn’t a normal volcano and that wasn’t actually lava. It was some hot magic liquid.
Even at 20 feet from red-hot lava I was afraid my eyebrows would singe off. And standing on hard, cooled lava, I could still feel the the soles of my shoes getting tacky in places, as they started to melt. And hanging in a helicopter, several feet over a lava pool, it was like being in a blast furnace. That shit is HOT!
The reason Gollum reacted that way instead of realistically wasn’t because of magic, it was because of CGI. “A computer did it!” is just as good a way to explain something as “A wizard did it!”
Sure, you can fanwank magical reasons why Gollum might have reacted differently to lava. (Just as you can suppose that Obi-Wan and Anakin were somehow using The Force to shield themselves from the heat - although that doesn’t explain why Anakin went up like a Tiki Torch at the end even when he wasn’t much closer to the lava than before.)
But the real reason is the opposite of magical: He behaved that way because that’s what an ordinary person, with no actual experience with lava, would expect to happen. Because it flows so fast, we expect lava to behave like water or maybe hot oatmeal, since we have no idea of its actual density. And since we’ve never encountered it, we have no idea how frikken hot it actually is. We don’t think about him being protected by magic because we see the scene as realistic instead of impossible.
Now I want to know why panache45 was hanging over hot lava in a helicopter.
Panache double-O 45 perhaps?
I’ve always thought that ”artist” story was just cover. 
You’ve just described the premise behind magical realism!
Otherwise known as, A Bad Day.
The explanation for that (canon, I believe) is that since Anakin had lost both legs and one arm, he now had fewer midichlorians available to him, so no longer had enough Force strength to shield himself.
No, that’s wrong. Google says magma has a density 2.80 g/cm3. At room temperature, mercury is 13.6 g/cm3. Things dropped into mercury will submerge briefly and then emerge to the top.
Naturally I’m talking about dropping things from low height. If you drop things into any liquid from a great height, then you get a sudden traumatic stop depending on density and viscosity.
If they emerge again to the top, then they don’t sink.:dubious:
So…McDonald’s coffee?
I am trying to be clear that submergence definitely will happen, possibly complete submergence, although temporarily.
If you want to press a semantic quibble that this is different from sinking, you win, the victory is yours.
That’s literally what happened to Anakin. He never touched the lava. He was several meters away.
The fight scene can attributed to the Force or some kind of shielding technology. But when that was lost, he ended up extra crispy.
Dude, did you piss off a mob boss?
Volcanoes being what they are, there’s a good chance you’d be inhaling toxic fumes even before you jumped/were pushed off the cliff edge. If not, you’d be inhaling greater and greater concentrations on the way down, but these things take time to have their effect on your physiology. ISTM that for any reasonable cliff height (and therefore descent time), you’d probably still be conscious at impact.
Assuming the height of your fall was inadequate to cause death or unconsciousness due to impact, I’m pretty sure this is the thing that would end your consciousness. a few deep breaths would end oxygen transfer to your bloodstream, and your heart would soon be pumping oxygen-free blood to your brain; I expect you’d be unconscious within 20 seconds or so.
Magma is liquid, but it’s high-density liquid. Water is 1 gram per cc, and as noted upthread, magma is about 2.8 times that. People who jump from the Golden Gate Bridge suffer massive blunt-trauma injuries when they hit the water 200 feet below. Since magma is about 2.8 times the density, you’d expect similar injuries with an impact velocity only 1/2.8 as high as what GGB jumpers experience; that translates to a cliff-fall height of just 120 feet. If you’re falling into magma from that kind of height, yes, you’ll submerge, and yes, you’ll float back up to the top, but you’ll have a lot of broken bones and various other severe damage.
To what level of completion? Cremations take a long time to reduce a body to ash, on the order of a couple of hours. I would expect something similar for direct exposure to magma, since the temperatures are in the same ballpark.
Since every magma composition is unique there might be some mitigating factors as noted above. One thing that hasn’t specifically been mentioned is H2S. If you’re breathing before you hit the magma, and there is more than 500 ppm H2S it’ will pretty much instantly render you unconscious (which is probably your best outcome if you’re rocketing in a swan dive at 9.8 m/sec sq) toward immanent death. So, there’s that.
More fun reading here: Hydrogen Sulphide (H2S) | IVHHN
Pele would only be annoyed with you if you couldnt put a ball on target from inside the box. And today I found out that Pele was a she. Those Brazilians!!
Molten rock is much more dense than water.
A very sudden stop.