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I think you are right, otherwise the gene pool is gonna stagnate with idiot genes lmao

Underrated hahahaha!

Notwithstanding everything you wrote, the tubes that aren’t filled with molten lava are often large cavities under a thin crust, rimmed with razor sharp glass shards, like falling through a dozen skylights.

Exactly! I lived on the Big Island for about a year in 2002, and went to Volcano a few times, and it never failed that some idiot tourist would walk away from the marked trail, to look down into the cracks and see the liquid lava flowing just beneath it. While I lived there, at least three people fell through the thin crust of the off path areas, and died. They don't exactly advertise it, as it would definitely affect tourist numbers, but it happens fairly regularly. The paths over the newly solidified lave were marked by the park employees, who scan the ground with high tech instruments to avoid thin spots, but idiots gotta be idiotic, and some of them pay the price. I remember one time while I was there, these parents took their kids off path, and had them all crouched down, to look into a vent crack, (which can sometimes spurt out lava), and waved me and a couple of other locals off, after we yelled at them to return to the path. Stupid is as stupid does.

Well at least at that temperature it would be over quickly.

@@barrykaine6526 "They don't exactly advertise it, as it would definitely affect tourist numbers". Sounds like they got their priorities in the right order.... I guess...

I visited Hawaii in 1999ish. They had parts of the lava fields roped off, and i saw a young man go under the rope onto the crust, and he made it only a short distance before he broke through. His right leg went in up to his hip. He started screaming. I confess I ran away. There was nothing i could do, and I couldn't handle his screaming. I don't know how they got him out. There was a brief article in the newspaper the next day. He was in the hospital in critical condition. His leg had been literally roasted.

Certainly puts it into perspective!

And the amount of lava flow

The volcano is way bigger, you're just looking at a vent.

@@R1cardoo It looks just like a bit of lava spilling over on the stream. Compared to human, well, shitload of lava.

Probably lost a bet, or accepted a dare.

If they had any common sense, they wouldn't have stepped out on the lava in the first place..

Not to mention that fumes may blow in their direction and overcome them, even if no lava hit them. I wouldn't bother trying to rescue someone that stupid. Just leave a flag with "Cautionary Tale" written on it...

I just hope they don't take out any rescuers in their striving for a Darwin Award

The most idiotic person of the year is too much honor for this .......

It can always be a posthumous award : (

Lmfao

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 I would watch it over and over.

Facts

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Lol

Can't win the award until your Darwin stunt kills you. ;-)

They should at least get a mention on DumbAss Daily.

@@Appalling68 we don't actually know if this wanker survived or not. He may have fallen in a hole in the cooled larva & broke his neck.

@@5Heth Fair enough. But if this guy did fall through a hole (better described as void), a broken neck would have been the least of his worries.

Do they get an honorable mention?

Oh that is too funny... Eeeeexcellent... 🇿🇦

Or the trade winds and gases to make othere understand what they can also do.😒

Admittedly, i was. 😏. In the interest of "science".

PERSPECTIVE not prospective! 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

I do not understand, really not, such commentaries. Aren't you able to imagine 160m ??? = ~90 times the size of the body of a human, and 1 mio times the size of a brain that can't calculate

@@monnoo8221 Imagining and seeing are different experiences.

@@lovecats2668 You know, just yesterday I was going to make a post asking someone to draw a stickman on Ragnar so i could see the size of it all! Huh.

@@lauraandrews8072 someone knew you were going to ask and just showed it how big this is

Correct! And the heat!!!

HAHAH

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RUN (Forrest) RUN

Paraphrasing another movie: even the potential splatters should matter more to these dolts. Try melting rock -- good luck. Just Do The Right Thing & stay back.

Unfortunately there is no medication for STUPID.

@@ThysLouwrens Uh....how about some edgycation? Or the real thing rooted in the word educe, rather than the prevailing inculcation that all too commonly passes for "education"?

“Anakin, I have the high ground... don’t do it!!!”

you can, with lava

That was Ron White in one of his older standup routines when talking about some of the women he's met. If I recall correctly: "you can fix ugly, but you can't fix stupid"

However it has a tendency to "fix" itself given enough opportunities.

You can mute it with duct tape?

Definitely a qualified contender.

You are absolutely on the mark! 99.75% of world population is somnambulist, or, to be understood, zombies. Most don´t have a clue as to where they stand, let alone think they may know. In this case the zombie is suicidal.

Yeah, rather surprised it took this long for someone to get caught on video walking on the lava flows.

Yup, I have recently watched some idiot car driver episodes and "Canada's worst driver" and I am amazed how these people can not forget to breathe.

There's millions of Biden voters....

@TCC X ... or even an empty lava tube that you will not be able to get out of. Lava flows... a thin crust forms... it flows out... and you have a tunnel with a thin cover and walls covered in shards of glass... not to mention the temperature inside even if there is no molten lava.

This is not plain stupid. This is a special kind of stupid.

So you think you are so smart. But you didn’t have the balls to do it. I could easily outrun the lava.

@@commenter7893 Man against nature... Nature will always win. Only fools think they can win against nature.

@@commenter7893 "I could easily outrun the lava." so, that was you in vid, moron?

These jackwagons seem to reproduce faster than they weed themselves out.

@@footballdrills3434 Lower intelligent lifeforms reproduce more so as to ensure safety in numbers. More intelligent specimens reproduce less because they are smarter and don't die as easy.

Long live stupid people!

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Someone could have just as easily tossed a banana onto the cone.

When it comes to stupidity, The Human race will never, ever let you down! With what this world's people are doing to each other and themselves and in addition of what these past four years have produced, it's a wonder we're still around to talk about it. But even that won't last forever.

@@livehabesha4642 and if they perish...it's natural selection...

That's the real danger. It's easy to outrun even low viscosity lava that moves faster, but you step on a thin layer over a tube, and that's it, you're done. 99.9% chance you won't break through anywhere, but that 0.1% chance is deadly.

You only have to see some of the other videos that show the edge of the lava field maybe a kilometer or more away, and the lava is still white hot after all that time and distance.

Pumice must be a very good insulator of heat.

It can turn from solid to oops I fell in real quick!!

@@georgerichwine1864 It's not pumice, it's lava. Ok pumice and lava are kinda both volcanic rock, but pimice is lava that is so full of gas bubbles it floats. What we see here are lava flows.

@@sigisoltau6073 This lave is full of gas, and is full of small bubbles and holes, like a sponge.. Seen that on one of Gutntog's video's

@@MarcoNierop Yeah, but not enough to make it pumice. Magma that forms pumice is far more viscous than the lava we see here. The lava here in this eruption is so fluid that most of the gas escapes.

that happens every year there, actually. also? people getting out of their cars to try and pet the bears. really really. makes me think the person in this video is likely to be an american tourist.

@@thomasneal9291 - If I were a gambler, I'd put money on that. Either American or German.

Or leaving the prepared path, and falling into boiling water to be dissolved. There are some astonishingly stupid people walking among us.

Or using 'Old Faithful' as a bidet

@@kevinireland8020 😶 😅😅😅

What about the impact of the innocents viewing, who have to watch this fool being burnt alive? They dont deserve this image.

@@krisushi1 Turn away! Turn away!

LOL, great minds think alike.

@@krisushi1 I really don't think that person out there was thinking about or even cared what the "innocents" might see. They were more interested in getting that selfie. Scold them. If your bemoaning the video content, Don't watch.

why didn't that guy invest in a drone instead ??? atleast this should be the last time he will ever do simething so dangerous

On St. Lucia there was a big hole in a hot lava crust from some tourist...

Right? Especially seeing the flow go under the lava field before spilling over the top!

Lava hardens at 1000*C, (1800*F), so it could still be hot enough to set fire to your feet, legs, well you know.....

This people don't know more than this...

@@RobsHandMonkey Right. Everyone assumes it's just another arrogant American.

Just FYI even molten lava is still very dense, basically just as dense as rock, so you wouldn’t sink into lava, but it would flow around you. Though you may be asphyxiated by gases while you feel your feet melt out from under you. It would also knock you over probably.

@@AvanaVana You are correct!! However, there is still a chance that there is thin cooled lava in spots where you could fall through. There is NO way to know. ANYTHING is possible, and it's all just totally unimaginably stupid to chance!

@@AvanaVana depending on the amount of silica in the lava, it can be more or less liquid. What I see coming out of that crater at the top doesn't seem that dense yet; it flows like water.

@@quietone748 Yeah, but either way, any lava, regardless of its silica content, is going to have a density in the range from between 2.7 and 3.1 grams per cubic cm.

@@AvanaVana ah, but it being liquid allows it to deform around the pressure put on it by your bodyweight. so YES, you will sink into it. I mean, it's not hard to look up recorded incidents of geologists sinking into lava flows even they did not expect to crumble.

The authorities are actually leaving it to people to use their intelligence on this one. They had some trouble a couple of weeks ago trying to prevent people getting too close and let's just say it wasn't worth the effort.

Iceland is a "free" country. Authorities are not responsible for any John Doe if he wants to put his own life at risk voluntarily.

Exactly what I was thinking. It takes ONE MORON to ruin it for everyone else.

sometimes . "man for scale" . is a realy bad idea

Arrested for what?

In a free country authorities don't arrest people for being daredevils. After all this daredevil does not pose a threat to anyone but himself. And that's not a crime. So why even bother come to his rescue.

@@shiraz1736 If the authorities have issued a "do not go" release, they may be breaking the law. Risking the lives of volunteer rescuers because of stupidity should be very costly in jail time and fines to cover costs.

@@andersladsholm81 You can only be truly free by using your brain. This dumb stunt has nothing to do with being free.

@@andersladsholm81 And yeah, he poses extreme threats to any rescuer who would have to go save his dumb ass.

Iceland is now open for international tourists ;-)

@@sgjoni I was thinking that myself. Surely people who live there have better sense than that. A tourist - well, who knows?!

@@WhiteTiger333 The guys posing on this picture on "spectator hill" don't look Icelandic, judging from their clothing... and I'm sure they would have been outed already if they were. www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2021/06/11/thad_er_natturan_sem_raedur/

Lets hope they haven't passed on their genes yet.

best comment by far xD

"My _precious!"_ :-D

Nicely stated :-) If it's dumb enough to try, someone will.

Well said. I would like to think that you're talking about those in the tails of the distribution beyond ±x sigma, where x=3 for example, but since the advent of the Internet I fear that x is much less than 3.

Another way to get a scale is to watch the lava bombs. You can time the free fall from the crest to where they land. About 60 feet per second. Google Omni Free Fall Calculator.

They never learn.

@@Iconoclasher Will do! thank you!

@@Iconoclasher There's a derivative for that.

Yes, they would. Well, at least this one did something similar in Nyiragongo. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m811esRzva2Xe5s.html

@@nebtheweb8885 Indeed, that's true. And then the lava also unexpectedly came over the edge, just at the point where the man stood a few seconds before. His team mates declared him mad. Though that is a different sort of volcano from this one.

Saw them ruining the view from the cam earlier. Would not surprise me if this person was from that same group. 🤦‍♂️

I hear a lava-bath might be a suitable cure.

Seemingly solid lava can be only a thin solid crust on top of molten rock. You can easily fall through.

Or Gollum!

He will be hence known as "Burntnapkin Lavawalker" ...

Their parents will know: the shoes will tell. Walking on new, "warm" lava should leave some sort of mark. 😸

A button to gather Darwin points would be awesome too. Then YT can select a winner of the year.

Maybe potential mates will be impressed with this activity.

How do we know this person made it back to safety? Sadly I’m guessing once they’ve uploaded to ... [insert social media platform here] Social media inspires this I’m sure

@@davmole l think if they didn't it would be international news.

They're only eligible for the Darwin Award if they haven't already reproduced.

My thoughts, too. Any thoughts of the consequences of this stunt are unthinkable. What are the odds that alcohol was somehow involved with this mountain climbing demonstration?

Iceland will let you walk up to the edge of a large waterfalls. I like how they kind of leave it up to Natural Selection to be the cop. I respect that and find it better than some rule that says "You must stay 500 meters away because one careless person died years ago".

@Glen Young I never said or sugestd helicopters were flying over the vulcano cone directly. But there are helicopters landing on top of those hills all the time! No more then 200-300 meters away from he cone. Where the guy walked is unreachable without crossing at least 100 meters of lava field first. (at the saddle where trail path A was leading upto the spectator hill)

@Glen Young Another reason to love Iceland! FWIW - I toured there for 8 days in June of 2017 and have been wanting to go back ever since!

@Glen Young They are doing helicopter tours that land on one of the hills near to the volcano & let people stay there while the helicopter flies back & picks up the next load of tourists.

@Glen Young Well said. It's amazing how many people in the US engage in "Sew-erage" (litigation) against someone else because they chose to be careless and/or do something stupid. It's like they're saying "It's my right to be dumb and I'm gonna make y'all pay me for it!" Having said that, I support people who seek recompense for wilful negligence, e.g. fire risk during Ford Pinto rear-end crashes, but why should others pay when someone is injured due to their own risky or careless behaviour?

Reckoning

Please. That's an insult to plants. Even they have more brain cells than this person.

@@sigisoltau6073 a most excellent return.. 😁 😂

No one has been injured or died... That we know of. I doubt they will advertise it.

That's what I was thinking, he's lucky he made it that far and back without falling through the crust!

Yeah I have no idea how this person even made it to that point. There seems to be molten lava flows all around.

@@johnnamkeh1290 I hear that god spares drunks and fools and Iceland doesn’t really have much hard liquor….

You might be surprised at how quickly a liquid flow will form a solid crust at its surface. And a shell of rock a couple of inches thick can support a lot of weight. I would not go as close as this guy did, but I would be quite comfortable venturing onto places like the saddle to “Spectator Hill”.

@@aldobassi6880 Well, we can all make mistakes, but some make bigger mistakes than others!

Yes, we greatly enjoyed this video so glad you shared it with us. Even you couldn't stop laughing!!!

If the person had died s/he would indeed have been a very *hot* candidate for Darwin Awards -- literally.

this guy is why we have labels on stuff like don't put forks into electrical outlets...sheesh

Even lava thousand years old can be dangerous to walk on. It can break down, collaps, cut your skin, break your bones or make you lost forever because if you fall in a crevasse, there is no mobile network to use so whos gonna save you? I see idiots here walking over the lava fields almost on a daily base for a perfect photo. A lava field full of razor sharp lava rocks, caves and cracks. Covered by moss in many places.

i have been saying this for a while. how long till someone kills themselves at the volcano, because they are disturbed. I almost garantee this person is doing that, but is too scared to do it for themselves, so was hoping maybe the eruption might do it for them. But seeing burning hot magma coming straight at you scares you straight quick.

Arrest him for what? Being an idiot? That's not illegal, if it was half the earth's population would be locked up. Just let natural selection do its thing and it'll take care of morons like this in due time.

I am thinking of rescue personnel told to recover the body. "No."

if the crust would break and that would fall into it, then it is really thinfloating and 1100-1300 celc, i guess it would not hurt so much as that would be dead in 2-4 seconds, i say that as i do not consider stupidy of this sort to be a human.

Right? lol

My thoughts exactly. 😊

They realized at last second how immense and fast the lava was and ran for their life 🌋💥😱💀

Don't give them ideas!

You know, tons more ppl die now at the grand canyon than before. All because of selfies. Thinking some idiot wouldnt do this is crazier than thinking someone would now LOL

@@krisushi1 🤣🤣🤣

@@dralord1307 don't even remind me, I saw the videos 😱😱

@@dralord1307 yeah, but all the idiots can simply drive to the Grand Canyon, you have to try real hard to get to Iceland just to be a fool when you get there.

i beg your pardon! Pacaya would be my volcano of choice to visit.

@@a-fl-man640 :)

Why would Charles Darwin enjoy this?

@@georgerichwine1864 Cos this person certainly qualifies for a Darwin Award! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Awards

@@daveseddon5227 Does Charles (or you) enjoy the death of people to prove a theory.

@@georgerichwine1864 lol No But As with Darwin comes the Reality that Stupid members of an intelligent species, are detrimental to the species and the faster we can weed out the ignorant ones, the better off the Species will be. I can laugh at stupidity and still love my fellow Humans. The Theory needs no Proof today as History has Clear examples that provide it. Observing the Phenomenon in action, Is just entertaining.

@@redneckhippiefreak True. In Darwin"s time it waa believed that evolution was survival of the fittest. This is a clear example of that. I'm glad the person is ok, but that was an incredibly stupid thing to do. I'd like to see an eruption like this as well, but I'm not dumb enough to get that close.

Terminator style with a thumbs up in the end. :b

Japan's Mount Mihara for many years was famous as a suicide spot. Hundreds of people climbed the mountain and jumped into the lava to end it all.

Several more decades at least.

@@DALKINION Yes, I suspect that too is possible.

Well, technically a nomination, had he perished then he'd be a winner... Of the award, but not much else!

I am curious as to the reason why he climbed up there. He MUST have been wearing a heat resistant suit with oxygen supply, so it's not an impulsive thing. He was walking on lava crust that was still at least 200-300 C, is my estimate.

Lmfao! 🤣

The Prime Directive.