what goes around
Submitted 1 year ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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gramgan@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Eheran@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is pure gold
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
unexpectedly… profound?
Soup@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think I heard that most of it is algae and plankton and stuff.
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That and trees from a time when there wero no organisms yet that could decompose cellulose.
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
that’s where coal comes from I thought
Eheran@lemmy.world 1 year ago
*Lignin, not cellulose.
Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz 1 year ago
Petrolium is made from ancient algae and plants, not dinosaurs.
newerAccountWhoDis@hexbear.net 1 year ago
UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Ancient algae that fed on dinosaurs
xor@infosec.pub 11 months ago
mostly…
Tyfud@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Except most fossil fuels come from decayed plant matter.
doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Chicken nuggets shaped like dinos are a better example
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
Only if you fry them in motor oil.
OpenStars@discuss.online 1 year 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 year ago
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Yes, we are all stardust.
Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Im vegan because i subsist off of grass-fed beef.
OpenStars@discuss.online 1 year ago
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
See, I knew the world revolves around me.
OpenStars@discuss.online 1 year ago
Or, in this formulation, the world is you? :-O
Flyberius@hexbear.net 1 year 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 year ago
Nah, oil’s algae. Trees turned to coal.
Flyberius@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Ah cool. But it’s not dinosaurs that’s for sure.
azi@mander.xyz 1 year 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 year 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 year ago
im 14 and this is deep
jlow@beehaw.org 1 year ago
So we’re eating credit cards-amounts of dinosaurs, got it (I think this has been debunked, recently?)
Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
OIL DOES NOT COME FROM DINOSAURS
Malgas@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Plastic algae is real algae?