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[-] demesisx@infosec.pub 76 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

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

[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 33 points 3 weeks ago

but that T-Rex served as a marine

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 21 points 3 weeks ago

That t-rex was a swimmer ๐ŸŠ

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

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

[-] yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[-] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

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

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

TIL, thanks.

[-] Blackout@fedia.io 26 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 24 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

what are your component materials?

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Carbon and Vodka.

[-] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

Literally dirt and water. A muddy puddle. XD

[-] merari42@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

He was under a lot of pressure

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 13 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 weeks ago

A Shell of their former selves.

[-] 4oreman@lemy.lol 1 points 3 weeks ago
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