The circle of life

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• Slovene@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ackchually, oil is mostly from plant matter.

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  • dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    TIL

    Does Oil Come From Dinosaur Fossils?

    It’s a commonly spread fiction that oil comes from dinosaurs because when people hear fossils, their brains immediately jump to dinosaurs. However, that’s not the case.

    The truth may be less exciting to some, but oil and other fossil fuels are not actually formed from the remains of dinosaurs. The oil we’re drilling and pumping to the surface as fuel is formed from diatoms, small organisms such as algae and bacteria that lived long before dinosaurs even existed.

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    • tobogganablaze@lemmus.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A more entertaining source:

      what-if.xkcd.com/101/

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  • essell@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I am under the impression that’s coal.

    Oil is from sea life. Though I did read that in the 80s so entirely possible its nonsense.

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    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes and no. They’re both hydrocarbons.

      Coal is organic matter from dry land, so typically plants.

      Oil is from organic matter that fell to the ocean floor, so microbial life, algae and the like.

      But both are from and end up as the same types of organic molecules. Carbon and hydrogen.

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    • grandkaiser@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nah, coal is plant matter too.

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    • Piemanding@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I guess algae and bacteria are close to plants.

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  • Akareth@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And non-plants like algae and bacteria.

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• TheSlad@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Dinosaurs -> chickens

  Chickens -> pulverized chicken paste

  Pulverized chicken paste -> dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets

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  • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dinosaurs = Chickens

    Therefore dinosaur shaped dinosaur nuggets

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  • OfficerBribe@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t think we have the technology yey to create dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets. The ones I have seen usually are shaped like nondescript blobs.

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    • Aux@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It is possible, but it’s wasteful and expensive.

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• MonkderDritte@feddit.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Actually, it’s mostly plancton. And trees.

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  • Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Let’s make microplancton plastic toys.

    Wait. What about microplastics in the oceans ?

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    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They will become new oil in a million years.

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• _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Since we are all full of microplastics, does that mean we are part dinosaur?

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  • ODuffer@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We are full of stars

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  • nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Plastic is almost entirely made from plants much older then dinosaurs, but if you ate a chicken on the other hand…

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    • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Does mechanically separated chicken count?

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  • ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d say no, because the microplastics aren’t really a part of it DNA. But that’s just my definition.

    I think we could say that we all have dinosaurs inside us, just like our pesky skeletons.

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    • SirSmokeAlot@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But aren’t like 50% of cells in your body bacteria? I’d say those are considered part of you. But I get what you are saying.

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Does it need to be part of your DNA?

      If I weigh 99 Kg, and I eat 1 Kg of ravioli, I am 1% ravioli.

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• HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The circle of life is really about the CO~2~ e make along the way

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• kozy138@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I thought this was a guide to the game “Workers and Resources: Society Republic”

  I must be playing it too much…

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  • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I just picked that up in the summer sale! Looking forward to playing it.

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    • kozy138@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s way too addicting… But oh so good

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• DavidGarcia@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  dinosaur necromancy

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• GarlicToast@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Following the flow chart I came to the conclusion that plastic dinosaurs are real dinosaurs.

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• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This meme never gets old

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• BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ah yes, triceratops and T-Rex.

  Why not the iPad? It’s as far time wise to the Rex as the Rex is to the tops.

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  • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Are you confusing Triceratops with Stegosaurus? Triceratops and T. Rex both lived in the late Cretaceous.

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    • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Totally. I’m no Expertosaurus on this, I’d consider myself more a… Nooboraptor.

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• themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And yet, a sense of the true self exists in the false self.

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• henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Life is short, but an idea is forever.

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• yuri@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Image restoration

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• matthewmercury@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Stage Three: The sign marks the absence of basic reality. The image calls into question what the reality is and if it even exists.

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  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And thus Philosoraptor is born

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• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Where’s my steggo?

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• essell@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I am under the impression that’s coal.

  Oil is from sea life. Though I did read that in the 80s so entirely possible its nonsense.

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