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[-] demesisx@infosec.pub 76 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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.

[-] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 46 points 10 months ago

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

[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago
[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 74 points 10 months ago

To ruin the joke i learned recently that oil comes exclusively from dead marine life ๐Ÿค“

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago

but that T-Rex served as a marine

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 21 points 10 months ago

That t-rex was a swimmer ๐ŸŠ

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago

Fun fact: we now know for a fact that many dinosaurs could swim, including T Rex! How do we know? There are footprints that get smaller and shallower as the dinos got deeped into the water, eventually reduced to just small scratches by the tips of their claws and eventually disappearing altogether. It looks something like this:

[-] Courantdair@jlai.lu 20 points 10 months ago

How do they know they weren't taking off? Maybe they were able to fly without wings!

Awesome fact btw

[-] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago

Then there'd be one really deep print as they kicked off.

[-] yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

But what if they had a organelle which generated helium and made them slowly float

[-] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago

Hydrogen.

You can't generate helium unless you have a fusion reactor.

Actually, nuclear powered flying T. rex sounds cool, so let's go with it.

[-] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

That's super cool I had no idea!! Does anyone have fun sources to start with?

[-] Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

TIL, thanks.

[-] Blackout@fedia.io 26 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 24 points 10 months ago

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

[-] callyral@pawb.social 9 points 10 months ago

what are your component materials?

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Carbon and Vodka.

[-] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[-] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

Literally dirt and water. A muddy puddle. XD

[-] merari42@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

He was under a lot of pressure

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 13 points 10 months ago

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

[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 13 points 10 months ago

A Shell of their former selves.

[-] 4oreman@lemy.lol 1 points 10 months ago
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