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OIL DOES NOT COME FROM DINOSAURS
Plastic algae is real algae?
This is pure gold
unexpectedly.... profound?
I think I heard that most of it is algae and plankton and stuff.
That and trees from a time when there wero no organisms yet that could decompose cellulose.
that's where coal comes from I thought
*Lignin, not cellulose.
Petrolium is made from ancient algae and plants, not dinosaurs.
Ancient algae that fed on dinosaurs
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mostly...
Except most fossil fuels come from decayed plant matter.
Chicken nuggets shaped like dinos are a better example
But if carnivorous dinosaurs eat herbivorous dinosaurs, and herbivorous dinosaurs eat plants, then all dinosaurs are plants.
And plants eat sunlight, so all life on earth is the sun.
Yes, we are all stardust.
Im vegan because i subsist off of grass-fed beef.
See, I knew the world revolves around me.
Or, in this formulation, the world is you? :-O
Sort of, like Pringles aren’t really potato chips, but they are made of the same stuff and have the same shape.
im 14 and this is deep
So we're eating credit cards-amounts of dinosaurs, got it (I think this has been debunked, recently?)
this post was submitted on 09 May 2024
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