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[-] demesisx@infosec.pub 76 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

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

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago

but that T-Rex served as a marine

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 21 points 1 month ago

That t-rex was a swimmer ๐ŸŠ

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

[-] yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[-] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

[-] Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

TIL, thanks.

[-] Blackout@fedia.io 26 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

what are your component materials?

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Carbon and Vodka.

[-] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month ago

Literally dirt and water. A muddy puddle. XD

[-] merari42@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

He was under a lot of pressure

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 month ago

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

[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago

A Shell of their former selves.

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