I read that algae actually makes up more of what we know as oil than decomposed dinosaurs.
I'm not sorry.
Submitted 1 month ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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demesisx@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Algae and plankton. It also obviously takes longer than a few minutes, like at least an hour.
idunnololz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
At least
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 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 1 month ago
what are your component materials?
jaybone@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Carbon and Vodka.
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 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 1 month ago
Literally dirt and water. A muddy puddle. XD
merari42@lemmy.world 1 month ago
He was under a lot of pressure
lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
That’s what happens when you donate your body for science
lobut@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
A Shell of their former selves.
4oreman@lemy.lol 1 month ago
brutal.
the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
To ruin the joke i learned recently that oil comes exclusively from dead marine life 🤓
pyre@lemmy.world 1 month ago
but that T-Rex served as a marine
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 month ago
That t-rex was a swimmer 🏊
Klear@lemmy.world 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:
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asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s super cool I had no idea!! Does anyone have fun sources to start with?
Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
TIL, thanks.