Mushrooms are the great undertaker, the great decomposer. The Langoliers. They are just waiting to eat you, and they’re happy to share their fruits in the meantime. They’re fattening you up. They can wait.
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ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Also cool that for a period of like 60 million years, nothing decomposed dead trees. As they would die or fall over, they’d just stay there, piling up. This is where most oil came from. The massive amounts of trees stacking up before bacteria and fungus evolved to decomposed them. Imagine 60 million years worth of trees just lying around.
turtlesareneat@discuss.online 2 months ago
voracread@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That Langoliers reference spotted in the wild!
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Now we do the dance of joy!
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I remember a flimsy tv film with even flimsier CGI spherical creatures eating the planet
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
I was struggling to explain the plot of this one to my gf just the other day. Had to pull out screenshots of the TV movie to make it make sense.
stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
I imagine dead trees were flammable, even back then. And oxygen levels were 15% higher. Can you imagine the forest fires?
Crassus@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Fire wasn’t invented back then
smeenz@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
And after it was invented, it was only in black and white until the 1950s
Ileftreddit@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I thought that was coal
ravenaspiring@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I love this fact, and am curious where you learned it?
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
I learned it nearly 30 years ago in school. I just did a search and found a link about it, though.
Also, seems that either I remembered wrongly, or my teacher made a mistake, but it seems it was most of the worlds coal; not oil, that came from all the piles of trees from that period.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Correct. In theory, we could make more oil in the lab. We cannot make more coal, because the wood will get broken down by bacteria far before it turns to peat, much less lignite, sub-bituminous, or bituminous coal.
Dogyote@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Didn’t those trees become coal, not oil?
DancingBear@midwest.social 2 months ago
I think near water they became oil and fat from water they became coal
RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No, most coal comes from plants in swamps, because the water helped preserve the organic matter.
Plants in swamps die -> organic matter on the bottom of the swamp -> peat -> brown coal -> black coal.
Oil apparently comes mostly from plankton.
On the different origins: carboeurope.org/how-are-fossil-fuels-formed-the-s…
DancingBear@midwest.social 2 months ago
Cool
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oil was effectively plankton and other sea stuff.
Coal was forests.
Child_of_the_bukkake@lemmy.cafe 2 months ago
Brother I finally found you.
We come from the same place you and me. Remember that barn?
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Yes. I made mention of this in a reply to someone else as well. I’m not sure if my teacher (like 30 years ago) told us wrong or if I simply remembered it wrong.