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[-] [email protected] 63 points 3 weeks ago

I mean, it's not just dino corpses. We also use an incredible amount of dead forests as fuel. We really showed nature who's the boss, huh?

[-] [email protected] 57 points 3 weeks ago

Fun fact: Oil mostly comes from the a mass extinction event involving cyanobacteria, not dinosaurs. We just can't stop calling them fossil fuels.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago

… are they not fossils of the cyanobacteria

[-] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago

Not by the usual definition. The carbon, etc that used to form the cyanobacteria is completely broken down and formed into miscellaneous hydrocarbons. There's no petrified remains, nor rock impressions of the bacteria.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

FWIW that was always my concept of fossil fuels to begin with.

Like whatever you just said, but for dinosaurs and all the life from before.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

dinosaurs are a basically insignificant % of the biomass by my understanding

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

But aren't their atoms perfectly preserved? (gasping at straws)

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Not all of them. Some of the carbon atoms will have decayed into (I think) nitrogen.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

I mean, it’s not our fault nature is so flammable

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

In think nature is warming up a big dish of karma.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

It was way, way, way before dinosaurs. Actually dinosaur remains are a poor combustible (whereas mummies, on the other hand...).

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Additionally, the batter is made up of their eggs.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago
[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

So vegetarians who use solar power are really helping human-dino relations

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I dont know, hopefully
i eat veggy dino nuggies
so i still might scare them

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

This is our vengeance for them causing global warming.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

You cook dino nuggies in a pan?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Does the Dino ask "What's a Human?"

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Not after that anymore.

this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2025
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