Researchers at Syracuse university, NY, pouring man made lava over a block of ice.they describe this attempt as their most successful to date in terms of material consistency, volume, duration of pour, viscosity, duration of flow, structure of flow, etc.While i'm not entirely clear about the scientific importance of creating your own basaltic lava flow, i do bealive it would be sweet having one of these machines in my back yard.I could invite everyone to a Luau theme party with an actual hawaiian volcano, or replace my pussy ass burglar alarm with a badass lava filled moat!Also, nothing beats staring at a lava flow up close when you're baked.http://lava-dev.syr.edu/