what goes around
Submitted 1 week ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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gramgan@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Eheran@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This is pure gold
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 week ago
unexpectedly… profound?
Soup@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I think I heard that most of it is algae and plankton and stuff.
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That and trees from a time when there wero no organisms yet that could decompose cellulose.
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
that’s where coal comes from I thought
Eheran@lemmy.world 1 week ago
*Lignin, not cellulose.
Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz 1 week ago
Petrolium is made from ancient algae and plants, not dinosaurs.
newerAccountWhoDis@hexbear.net 1 week ago
UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Ancient algae that fed on dinosaurs
xor@infosec.pub 5 days ago
mostly…
Tyfud@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Except most fossil fuels come from decayed plant matter.
doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Chicken nuggets shaped like dinos are a better example
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 week ago
Only if you fry them in motor oil.
OpenStars@discuss.online 1 week 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 1 week ago
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Yes, we are all stardust.
Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Im vegan because i subsist off of grass-fed beef.
OpenStars@discuss.online 1 week ago
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
See, I knew the world revolves around me.
OpenStars@discuss.online 1 week ago
Or, in this formulation, the world is you? :-O
Flyberius@hexbear.net 1 week 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 1 week ago
Nah, oil’s algae. Trees turned to coal.
Flyberius@hexbear.net 1 week ago
Ah cool. But it’s not dinosaurs that’s for sure.
azi@mander.xyz 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago
im 14 and this is deep
jlow@beehaw.org 1 week ago
So we’re eating credit cards-amounts of dinosaurs, got it (I think this has been debunked, recently?)
Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
OIL DOES NOT COME FROM DINOSAURS
Malgas@beehaw.org 1 week ago
Plastic algae is real algae?