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[-] [email protected] 76 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I read that algae actually makes up more of what we know as oil than decomposed dinosaurs.

Edit: the source of that tidbit. He does a cool demo at the beginning.

[-] [email protected] 46 points 8 months ago

Algae and plankton. It also obviously takes longer than a few minutes, like at least an hour.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago
[-] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago

You see, if aborted babies were a viable fuel source abortions would be government funded by now.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago

Imagine if when you died you just turned back into a pile of your component materials. Leaving behind a muddy puddle.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

what are your component materials?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Carbon and Vodka.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The rocks, in time, compress
Your blood to oil,
Your flesh to coal,
Enrich the soil,
Not everybody's goal.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Literally dirt and water. A muddy puddle. XD

[-] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

He was under a lot of pressure

[-] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

A Shell of their former selves.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

That's what happens when you donate your body for science

[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago
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