Talk:2980: Lava Lakes

yoo wait this is cool first yay TheTrainsKid (talk) 01:05, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

yoo 172.70.230.159 01:24, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Bro Why'd you delete my comment TheTrainsKid (talk) 01:29, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

the wiki is a strange place where sometimes two people edit at the same time and it causes funny things Me^{[citation needed]} 01:34, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Third post! RadiantRainwing (talk) 01:29, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

we're so back Me^{[citation needed]} 01:52, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

I do not think this current discussion is actually about XKCD at all, much less this comic. Perhaps the internet itself is that sixth lava lake, with all the hot mess it contains. 172.68.22.253 02:54, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

In fact, the Volcano Golf Course [1] is built on an active volcano, Kilauea.

Also on Hawaii Island is the Hualalai Golf Course, which is one of several that have been built on the Hualalai volcano, which erupts less frequently than Kilauea, but is nonetheless considered active (the Kona airport is built on an 1801 lava flow). 172.71.147.86 05:04, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Immediately I start wondering why there might not have been a perfectly workable airport beneath the 1801 lava flow. (Ok, so it might not have had a Starbucks, as Moby-Dick was only written in 1851, so clearly you couldn't have had that chain of coffee-shops yet.) 172.70.162.208 08:59, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Right, I should've been more clear on what I meant, which was that "no sane person would build a golf courses directly over the crater of active volcanoes" TheTrainsKid (talk) 03:41, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Check out the Volcano Golf Course on Google Earth. It's pretty damn close to the caldera. 172.71.147.191 05:12, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

FWIW, there hasn't been a lava lake in Kilauea's crater for a couple of years now. 172.71.147.191 05:12, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Is the female character Megan, or Danish? Hair length and association with Black Hat suggest the latter. 172.71.147.191 05:12, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

In my headcanon, I think Danish (btw, [[Danish]] is the simpler link form, here) would not normally be asking what Black Hat did, but instead (maybe) how he did it or probably just "Did you..?", already having this in mind. She would be traditionally be devious/sociopathic enough to have made the comment just now in order that Black Hat would do (something like) this.

Image-wise, the figure sits somewhere between the 'reference images' of Megan's hair (right thickness, grown a bit longer here) and that of Danish (finer and more casually-longer), and there are a number of ambiguous appearances that are just a subtle change in hair away from either, so I couldn't say for sure without taking into account the dialogue/activities involved. 172.70.163.49 09:18, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

There ia not need to say "right now", this is superfluous language & a verbal tic. 172.70.162.163 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

It adds context that this is not a fixed situation - that other volcanoes have contained and will contain lava lakes, while it's only a contingent state of the current five.172.70.90.34 08:15, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Fifteenth comment!141.101.98.174 08:10, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Last comment. And there's absolutely no way that I can be proven wrong, in this whole silly game of oneupmanship! 172.70.162.208 08:59, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

If you fund my Kickstarter, I will add a 7th. Do not ask where, but rather take a guess :)

141.101.99.190 09:38, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

I removed the Incomplete Transcription warning. - clevor 172.71.166.218 13:04, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

I assumed the lava lake would be used like a sand trap, so the golfer would want to hit the ball, rather than collect it. As such, the ball would likely be coated with a material of sufficiently high combustion temperature to be able to survive (at least for a while) on the surface of the lava. The golfer would then require shoes that allow for walking on the lake, but I believe such exist. My question is, how difficult would it be to hit the golf ball off of the surface of the "lake"? There would be the added challenge of a "divot" composed of some of the lava following the ball, but at least you shouldn't need to worry about "repairing" the damage? Galeindfal (talk) 15:55, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

This one contains a cool photos of golfers with a huge ash cloud erupting behind them: [2] It's probably a safe distance, really, but the photo makes it look as if it was right behind them. Scary! The article doesn't feature any lava lake, though. PaulEberhardt (talk) 17:47, 3 September 2024 (UTC)