what goes around
Submitted 11 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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gramgan@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Eheran@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is pure gold
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
unexpectedly… profound?
Soup@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think I heard that most of it is algae and plankton and stuff.
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That and trees from a time when there wero no organisms yet that could decompose cellulose.
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
that’s where coal comes from I thought
Eheran@lemmy.world 11 months ago
*Lignin, not cellulose.
Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Petrolium is made from ancient algae and plants, not dinosaurs.
newerAccountWhoDis@hexbear.net 11 months ago
UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Ancient algae that fed on dinosaurs
xor@infosec.pub 11 months ago
mostly…
Tyfud@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Except most fossil fuels come from decayed plant matter.
doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Chicken nuggets shaped like dinos are a better example
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
Only if you fry them in motor oil.
OpenStars@discuss.online 11 months ago
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.
The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 11 months ago
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yes, we are all stardust.
Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Im vegan because i subsist off of grass-fed beef.
OpenStars@discuss.online 11 months ago
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
See, I knew the world revolves around me.
OpenStars@discuss.online 11 months ago
Or, in this formulation, the world is you? :-O
Flyberius@hexbear.net 11 months ago
Not to be that guy, but isn’t oil actually from all the trees that lived, died and got subducted, before there were any bacteria around capable of biodegrading them? So basically as soon as those bacteria arrived, no more oil was getting produced.
newerAccountWhoDis@hexbear.net 11 months ago
Nah, oil’s algae. Trees turned to coal.
Flyberius@hexbear.net 11 months ago
Ah cool. But it’s not dinosaurs that’s for sure.
azi@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Trees turn into peat which lithifies into coal. The anoxic and acidic conditions of peat bogs can slow decomposition enough to allow peat and coal to form so not all coal is from the Carboniferous, just most of it.
Also the evolutionary lag hypothesis that attributes that extra Carboniferous coal to a lack of lignin decomposers has been thrown into doubt.
vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Sort of, like Pringles aren’t really potato chips, but they are made of the same stuff and have the same shape.
AncientFutureNow@lemmy.world 11 months ago
im 14 and this is deep
jlow@beehaw.org 11 months ago
So we’re eating credit cards-amounts of dinosaurs, got it (I think this has been debunked, recently?)
Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
OIL DOES NOT COME FROM DINOSAURS
Malgas@beehaw.org 11 months ago
Plastic algae is real algae?