... Was the 2nd photographer also on fire?
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We need someone to take the picture of the second photographer to be sure.
Okay and then the 1st photographer takes a photo of the 3rd photographer...
This reminded me of that famous reddit post of the guy who used ingenious mirrors and extra devices to keep taking the same picture from different perspectives
An ancient reddit thread, but I witnessed this one in real time it was cool: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cmwov/hey_reddit_what_tattoos_do_you_have/c0tpyls/
I remember that one. That was peak Reddit content.
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I'll do it, but only if someone sets me on fire
The headline is unfair; the photo is staged, not fake.
I would say fake is accurate, as the intent is to look like the lava made it combust, which it didn't. The flames are real, but the combustion from the lava is fake.
I think the distinction is that in a fake photo, something you can see in the photo wasn't really there. In a staged photo, the story the photo tells isn't true to life.
Also, the intent was never to deceive, but to take a cool picture
I don't think intent matters here really. People making marvel movies aren't intending to deceive that it's real. That doesn't make it not fake though.
I think if the photographer did intend to deceive then it'd clearly be fake, but saying he didn't doesn't give us insight into if it's fake or not. It isn't part of the definition.
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When I was a kid there was a volcanologist couple that used to do stuff like this with volcanos. I remember thinking how cool they were and how I wanted to do that someday. They ended up getting vaporized in a pyroclastic blast
On 3 June 1991 at 4pm local time, Mount Unzen erupted, forming pyroclastic flows that rushed down its slopes, killing 43 people including the Kraffts, as well as their fellow volcanologist Harry Glicken, who had accompanied them to observe the eruption.
Well.
They have a cool documentary called 'The fire within'
They died doing what they love, which is cool as hell.
Yes that’s a great point
This is why you can't walk on lava, even when you've poured water over it to cool it down and turn it into stone, because it's still hella hot and you'd burn your feet, unlike in computer games like minecraft.
Shout out to Noita for having the same mechanic. In the default mode, you start with a flask of water, and if you get to the bottom of the first biome and go to the right, there's a lake of lava. A full flask is just enough to make a bridge of lava.
Worse, IRL molten lava is mostly solid like you see in the photo, not red water. If it's as viscous as water (or close to that), it's MUCH hotter and the air nearby would kill you. But that's how it's portrayed in the game. In a lot of games. Like Mario 1.
Getting back to Noita, to be fair to it, it is a pixel physics simulator. Every pixel's physics are simulated in real time. So it's not a pure bridge. Some pixels stay lava, and if you touch them, you take a slight amount of damage. Mostly if you're conservative with your water. Me, I like burrowing through the ceiling and dumping the lake above on it. Then again, if you can get under the lava, there's a nice little present waiting for you... best to get to the third biome and come up from under, though.
You also don't know how strong the shell is and you could break it and fall into lava.
This picture is staged
Yep I remember this picture and reading about how they put lighter fluid or something like that on the tripod legs and his shoes.
Praise the cameraman
It would have been funny if the person taking picture of that person was surrounded in flames
Not sure I understand why they’re being called a bot, that explanation makes perfect sense.
Guess he never played the floor is lava as a kid.
On the contrary, he spent the last few years building up an immunity to lava.
I'm over here 10 feet behind this guy like "I'm going to grab the 200mm, this 100mm zoom isn't cutting it.
You're defence is terrified
But....but...who took THAT picture!?
When I'm filming or taking a photograph of something I swear my brain simply shuts down.
He's just a dude and he's on fire
It’s only a bit of fire nothing to worry about
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