03-09-2014, 03:41 PM
Super8,
One would be hard pressed to get any sizable block from lava. Lava is very inconsistent and filled with fractures. The only way to pull off anything like that in lava would be along the lines of strip mining with blasting and extreme heavy equipment and you'd have piles of rubble along the sides, not blocks. In theory yes it's possible but not practical for here. If the flow were headed towards downtown LA, New York or Seattle etc... it would probably be practical. We simply don't have that sort of value in infrastructure to make it practical. I was thinking it would be cool to use water for cooling and spell out aloha and make a giant smiley face with the lava flow so it could be seen from space
One would be hard pressed to get any sizable block from lava. Lava is very inconsistent and filled with fractures. The only way to pull off anything like that in lava would be along the lines of strip mining with blasting and extreme heavy equipment and you'd have piles of rubble along the sides, not blocks. In theory yes it's possible but not practical for here. If the flow were headed towards downtown LA, New York or Seattle etc... it would probably be practical. We simply don't have that sort of value in infrastructure to make it practical. I was thinking it would be cool to use water for cooling and spell out aloha and make a giant smiley face with the lava flow so it could be seen from space