The shot zooms out from the sputtering can as we see NICK OFFERMAN approach, wordlessly adjudge the meal “done,” extend a grocery grabber, and fish out the can from the lava. After dipping the can in a water basin to remove any offending lava, he nonchalantly grabs the can with a gloved hand and makes to taste his handiwork. He blows on the spoonful of ravioli and pauses to address the audience:
“When camping out on the Big Island, I like to take advantage of the local terrain features.”
There’s something in it causing a ton of steam at the beginning - either it’s partly full of water, or someone got halfway through eating the ravioli and realized that it was better to kill it with lava.
Since this lava travels at around the speed of a not particularly energetic tortoise, not dangerous at all, unless you decide to lie down and have a nap next to it. I’ve been close enough to this sort of lava on the Big Island to poke it with a stick. It tends to be slow and predictable once it gets to this stage. Closer to the vent, not so much.
Please give props to the original person who filmed it - he runs a blog called Lavapix. I know that the net has become an echo chamber of sites that survive by endlessly forwarding links without attribution, but Boing is no Buzzfeed and should do better
