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The circle of life

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Submitted ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • Slovene@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ackchually, oil is mostly from plant matter.

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    • dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        A more entertaining source:

        what-if.xkcd.com/101/

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    • essell@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Nah, coal is plant matter too.

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      • Piemanding@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I guess algae and bacteria are close to plants.

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    • Akareth@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And non-plants like algae and bacteria.

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  • TheSlad@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dinosaurs -> chickens

    Chickens -> pulverized chicken paste

    Pulverized chicken paste -> dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets

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    • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Dinosaurs = Chickens

      Therefore dinosaur shaped dinosaur nuggets

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    • OfficerBribe@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • MonkderDritte@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Actually, it’s mostly plancton. And trees.

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    • Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Let’s make microplancton plastic toys.

      Wait. What about microplastics in the oceans ?

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      • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They will become new oil in a million years.

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  • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • ODuffer@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We are full of stars

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    • nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Does mechanically separated chicken count?

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    • ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • kozy138@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • kozy138@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s way too addicting… But oh so good

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  • DavidGarcia@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    dinosaur necromancy

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  • GarlicToast@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This meme never gets old

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  • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Life is short, but an idea is forever.

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  • yuri@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image restoration

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  • matthewmercury@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And thus Philosoraptor is born

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Where’s my steggo?

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  • essell@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨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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