what goes around
Submitted 10 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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gramgan@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Eheran@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This is pure gold
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
unexpectedly… profound?
Soup@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think I heard that most of it is algae and plankton and stuff.
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That and trees from a time when there wero no organisms yet that could decompose cellulose.
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
that’s where coal comes from I thought
Eheran@lemmy.world 10 months ago
*Lignin, not cellulose.
Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz 10 months ago
Petrolium is made from ancient algae and plants, not dinosaurs.
newerAccountWhoDis@hexbear.net 10 months ago
UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Ancient algae that fed on dinosaurs
xor@infosec.pub 10 months ago
mostly…
Tyfud@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Except most fossil fuels come from decayed plant matter.
doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Chicken nuggets shaped like dinos are a better example
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 months ago
Only if you fry them in motor oil.
OpenStars@discuss.online 10 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 10 months ago
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Yes, we are all stardust.
Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Im vegan because i subsist off of grass-fed beef.
OpenStars@discuss.online 10 months ago
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
See, I knew the world revolves around me.
OpenStars@discuss.online 10 months ago
Or, in this formulation, the world is you? :-O
Flyberius@hexbear.net 10 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 10 months ago
Nah, oil’s algae. Trees turned to coal.
Flyberius@hexbear.net 10 months ago
Ah cool. But it’s not dinosaurs that’s for sure.
azi@mander.xyz 10 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 10 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 10 months ago
im 14 and this is deep
jlow@beehaw.org 10 months ago
So we’re eating credit cards-amounts of dinosaurs, got it (I think this has been debunked, recently?)
Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
OIL DOES NOT COME FROM DINOSAURS
Malgas@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Plastic algae is real algae?