"Logically, convection should make the air in this chamber hotter than an oven, and we'd all roast alive. But for some reason, that doesn't happen!"
— Foreman Jaak, RuneScape
"Voyager decides to base everything they know about lava from playing Super Mario Bros.: As long as you don't touch it, it can't hurt you! ...Chakotay should be deader than disco."
"This is just barely hair-singing me, because you know, lava, normally, like, at this proximity, Demo would be something like evaporated by now, but I mean we're talking about reverse-gravity lava, which has completely different physical implications."
— raocow, playing A Super Mario Thing
"Eggman, another thing I wanna talk about is lava: it's cool to look at and and cool to see in videos, but not cool to be within, like, 500 feet of."
— Kung-Fu Jesus on Eggmanland
"Meanwhile, everyone’s favourite bit of movie science, *Lava isn’t hot unless you touch it*, puts in an appearance, with Kirk, Elaine and Janice unhurt and unbothered despite standing only feet from the white-hot material."
— Liz from "And You Call Yourself a Scientist?" on Two Lost Worlds
Ax: <You do not have to worry about the lava, Cassie.>
Cassie: "Thanks, Ax."
Ax: <If you fell, I believe you would be incinerated before you hit the actual magma.>
— Animorphs #34
The lava only hurts if it touches you.
—Janet the Chicken on using an active volcano to bake a Black Forest cake, Slack Wyrm
, Slack WyrmAnakin: "Don't you find it a little weird that we can stand this close to the lava river unharmed?"
Obi Wan: "Oh, yes, you're right. You'd think the overwhelming heat would be dangerous for us, but it seems to just be a minor annoyance."
Anakin: Well, as they say, the force works in mysterious ways.
Obi Wan: "Oh, yes, you're right. You'd think the overwhelming heat would be dangerous for us, but it seems to just be a minor annoyance."
Anakin: Well, as they say, the force works in mysterious ways.
"Have you ever actually considered how much lava is in the Nether? There's literal oceans of molten rock, lining the floor! Lava burns between 800 and 1200 degrees Celsius!note And as heat transfers thermal radiation being absorbed by your body, it means the more surface area, the more radiative emission. So in reality, seeing a lava ocean like this would feel like walking into a jet engine, and as thermal radiation is a type of EM radiation and thus effected [sic] by the Inverse Square Law, meaning the closer Steve gets, he will exponentially get hotter! Really, just standing this close would literally melt the skin off your body! And not to mention that lava would be emitting so many photons, it would make you BLIND by being so bright! But the truth is, none of this matters, because whenever you see pictures of lava, it has a black outer crust, from being cooled by the surrounding air! This is not the case in the Nether: the lava is all fresh and orange, meaning the surrounding air's already WELL above twelve hundred degrees Celsius! The moment Steve steps into the Nether, he should be dissolved into a gooey pile of MUSH!"
— gerg, "The Nether is WEIRD"
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