what goes around
Submitted 2 years ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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gramgan@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
Eheran@lemmy.world 2 years ago
This is pure gold
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 years ago
unexpectedly… profound?
Soup@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I think I heard that most of it is algae and plankton and stuff.
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 2 years ago
That and trees from a time when there wero no organisms yet that could decompose cellulose.
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
that’s where coal comes from I thought
Eheran@lemmy.world 2 years ago
*Lignin, not cellulose.
Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz 2 years ago
Petrolium is made from ancient algae and plants, not dinosaurs.
newerAccountWhoDis@hexbear.net 2 years ago
UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Ancient algae that fed on dinosaurs
xor@infosec.pub 2 years ago
mostly…
Tyfud@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Except most fossil fuels come from decayed plant matter.
doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
Chicken nuggets shaped like dinos are a better example
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 years ago
Only if you fry them in motor oil.
OpenStars@discuss.online 2 years 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 2 years ago
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Yes, we are all stardust.
Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Im vegan because i subsist off of grass-fed beef.
OpenStars@discuss.online 2 years ago
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
See, I knew the world revolves around me.
OpenStars@discuss.online 2 years ago
Or, in this formulation, the world is you? :-O
Flyberius@hexbear.net 2 years 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 2 years ago
Nah, oil’s algae. Trees turned to coal.
Flyberius@hexbear.net 2 years ago
Ah cool. But it’s not dinosaurs that’s for sure.
azi@mander.xyz 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago
im 14 and this is deep
jlow@beehaw.org 2 years ago
So we’re eating credit cards-amounts of dinosaurs, got it (I think this has been debunked, recently?)
Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 years ago
OIL DOES NOT COME FROM DINOSAURS
Malgas@beehaw.org 2 years ago
Plastic algae is real algae?