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[–] [email protected] 60 points 6 months ago (1 children)

OIL DOES NOT COME FROM DINOSAURS

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Plastic algae is real algae?

[–] [email protected] 51 points 6 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is pure gold

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

unexpectedly.... profound?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think I heard that most of it is algae and plankton and stuff.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (2 children)

That and trees from a time when there wero no organisms yet that could decompose cellulose.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

that's where coal comes from I thought

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

*Lignin, not cellulose.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Petrolium is made from ancient algae and plants, not dinosaurs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Ancient algae that fed on dinosaurs

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

mostly...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago

Except most fossil fuels come from decayed plant matter.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Chicken nuggets shaped like dinos are a better example

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (4 children)

But if carnivorous dinosaurs eat herbivorous dinosaurs, and herbivorous dinosaurs eat plants, then all dinosaurs are plants.

And plants eat sunlight, so all life on earth is the sun.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Yes, we are all stardust.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Im vegan because i subsist off of grass-fed beef.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

See, I knew the world revolves around me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Or, in this formulation, the world is you? :-O

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not to be that guy, but isn't oil actually from all the trees that lived, died and got subducted, before there were any bacteria around capable of biodegrading them? So basically as soon as those bacteria arrived, no more oil was getting produced.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Nah, oil's algae. Trees turned to coal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Ah cool. But it's not dinosaurs that's for sure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Trees turn into peat which lithifies into coal. The anoxic and acidic conditions of peat bogs can slow decomposition enough to allow peat and coal to form so not all coal is from the Carboniferous, just most of it.

Also the evolutionary lag hypothesis that attributes that extra Carboniferous coal to a lack of lignin decomposers has been thrown into doubt.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Sort of, like Pringles aren’t really potato chips, but they are made of the same stuff and have the same shape.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

im 14 and this is deep

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

So we're eating credit cards-amounts of dinosaurs, got it (I think this has been debunked, recently?)