What happens when a can of coke meets molten lava?
Some kids love to sit in front of the fire, watching the flames dance and the embers… um, ember.
Still more kids love to put things in the fire, fascinated to see how they will curl and burn in the heat.
Some of those kids will inevitably turn out to be arsonists and that's not good, but one - photographer Bryan Lowry - grew up and made a career out of it.
Based in Hawaii, Lowry runs the website Lavapix.com - which does exactly what is says on the tin, documenting in still image and video footage the many active lava flows in that volcanic part of the world.
In the below clip, Bryan shows what happens when a moving lava flow meets your common-or-garden can of Coke, as part of an occasional series of GoPro videos in which he introduces household groceries to molten rock oozing from beneath the earth's crust.
Born in Michighan and of Native American heritage, Lowry is a self-taught photographer with a particular fascination for lava.
"The first can had a tiny hole punched in the top to prevent it from randomly exploding," he said.
"I wanted to see if it would fountain as it heated up but, the can just sort of squirted coke."
"This series of videos is scientific in nature seeing how differing sealed objects react to the 2000 degree lava hitting it.
"If anyone's worried this is littering, relax. These items all melted. "
- Visit Bryan's blog or Facebook page for more incredible pictures and footage.
