Lightning can start fires in loft spaces and within walls of homes. These fires inside enclosed spaces may not be visible in their beginning stages. Lightning’s main objective is to find the path of least resistance from the cloud to deep into the ground.

If lightning strikes your house, it might not catch fire, but it can damage the electrical components of your house which can start a fire. It can also damage roof shingles, chimneys, and more.

A lightning bolt is disastrous enough on its own – it can punch a hole through a roof, damage the structures underneath or just dislodge tiles, leaving your roof and the space below exposed to the elements. Just one dislodged tile is bad news, though, as water can get in. A lightning strike can start a fire.

If you fall into a deep volcano you will survive with only psychological trauma 23.7 seconds followed by sudden loss of consciousness.

Despite their ubiquity all over Hawaii’s Big Island, it’s rare for someone to actually fall into a lava tube, experts have said. But it can happen. Rescue personnel discovered him resting at the bottom of the two-foot-wide lava tube, 22 feet below ground.

A: No. Any attempt to drive across an active lava flow, even one that has partly solidified to form a thin crust, is likely to lead to disaster. With a temperature of 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit or higher, fresh lava will quickly melt rubber tires and ignite gas tanks.

Universal Pictures claimed scientific validity for its volcano movie, “Dante’s Peak,” opening itself to endless expert criticism. Twentieth Century Fox is not quite making the same mistake with its “Volcano,” opening Friday.

Tungsten(Wolfram) is a great example since it has a melting point above 3000 °C, chromium, niobium molybdenum, rhenium, titanium and tantalum are all good examples that don’t melt below titanium’s minimal temp of 1668 °C…