I read that algae actually makes up more of what we know as oil than decomposed dinosaurs.
I'm not sorry.
Submitted 10 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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demesisx@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Algae and plankton. It also obviously takes longer than a few minutes, like at least an hour.
idunnololz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
At least
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 10 months 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 10 months ago
what are your component materials?
jaybone@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Carbon and Vodka.
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The rocks, in time, compress Your blood to oil, Your flesh to coal, Enrich the soil, Not everybody’s goal.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Literally dirt and water. A muddy puddle. XD
merari42@lemmy.world 10 months ago
He was under a lot of pressure
lugal@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
That’s what happens when you donate your body for science
lobut@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
A Shell of their former selves.
4oreman@lemy.lol 10 months ago
brutal.
the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
To ruin the joke i learned recently that oil comes exclusively from dead marine life 🤓
pyre@lemmy.world 10 months ago
but that T-Rex served as a marine
ICastFist@programming.dev 10 months ago
That t-rex was a swimmer 🏊
Klear@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months ago
That’s super cool I had no idea!! Does anyone have fun sources to start with?
Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
TIL, thanks.