Could a fish swim in lava just like it does in water? Are there

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>>2316861
>Could a fish swim in lava just like it does in water?

The fish would have to be extremely dense so they don't just float on the surface of the lava. They would have to be able to convert the heat into energy because I don't see them eating anything in the lava. I'm sure it's somehow possible but I don't know how they'd live.

>>2316872
Well, I think it works just like how other fish do, if they're in there. There's probably large and small ones and the large ones consume the smaller fish. I think that the smaller fish just eat the minerals.

>>2316861

Could you swim in cement like you do in water?

>>2316888
If it was wet like water, yeah. Not when it turns into hard though.

>>2316891
water is a liquid, lava and cement aren't really, and they solidify

>>2316896
Water isn't always a liquid either, it turns into ice sometimes and the fish still live in it and swim in it.

I just think that if it can survive extreme cold and it just needs to swim, that there's probably at least some species that are in lava as well.

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>>2316861
So anon this might get lengthy but bare with me. All life on earth is comprised of proteins. From the tiniest virus to your mom's ass every living thing is made of complex molecules of proteins, carbon, and oxygen along with other elements I'm too drunk to google. While there are life forms that can withstand immense heat and pressure (extremophiles) none can withstand the extremes of the earth's mantal. You would need a completely novel form of life bereft of the average building blocks we know and love. At that levels of heat no known protein or organic material as far as I know can survive. Silicon based life has been theorized but that's as far as my imagination goes. I can't begin to comprehend how a life form of such dense material would function on a micro level.

>>2316910
I'm not talking about the earth's mantal, sorry. I just meant regular volcano lava.

>>2316916
No, that shit is way too hot for any life even remotely similar to anything on earth to survive in no matter what adaptations it had.

>>2316919
Could a fish swim in it though

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>>2316916
The mantal is where the lava lives. It does under go significant cooling as it reaches the surface but still not close to what we'd need for life to thrive. According to the Googles life can't handle heat as well as it can cold. Organic carbon based life can not exist in temps exceeding 130 C. You'll notice that's just 30 degrees above the boiling temp of water at STP. Meanwhile tardigrades can chill in space for a few days and be relatively ok. Throw one in lava and it's fucked. For an organism to live in that environment i think it would have to have come from a separate lineage than all known life, be comprised of heavy metals, and function without oxygen.

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>>2316921
No, lava isn't actually a liquid like water is. It's more like a sludge with bits of denser rock mixed in.

>>2316925
Thank you. What about a turtle

>>2316927
Absolutely.

>>2316927
Turtles can only survive in lava as long as they are retracted into their shell.

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>>2316897
>fish swim in ice

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>>2316927

>>2316872
The fish would have to be nearly as dense as OP

>>2319324
Fully sikk burn

RIP OP

>>2316861
According to people in https://desuarchive.org/an/thread/2306075/#2306075 the thickness of the medium is irrelevant, so yes.
>life in lava
No.