“when read by a competent observer;”
I don’t doubt this to be true, was the training done after a full day of riding horses and trying to find food and water to eat?
He only got it up to 1000 degrees, half of what was expected.
Of course, I'm giving the benefit of the doubt to the volcanologist reading the pyrometer a few feet away.
Granted, Rowe was told not to hold it in one spot so it wouldn't pull an excalibur, but he was pretty wimpily incompetent about trying to get a good reading.
Hey, the lava's only 2000 degrees, only a tad more compared to the thermometers next to heat exhausts, burn barrels, jet wash, etc.