To ruin the joke i learned recently that oil comes exclusively from dead marine life 🤓
I'm not sorry.
Submitted 2 years ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
pyre@lemmy.world 2 years ago
but that T-Rex served as a marine
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 years ago
That t-rex was a swimmer 🏊
Klear@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Fun fact: we now know for a fact that many dinosaurs could swim, including T Rex! How do we know? There are footprints that get smaller and shallower as the dinos got deeped into the water, eventually reduced to just small scratches by the tips of their claws and eventually disappearing altogether. It looks something like this:
asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 2 years ago
That’s super cool I had no idea!! Does anyone have fun sources to start with?
Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
TIL, thanks.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
Imagine if when you died you just turned back into a pile of your component materials. Leaving behind a muddy puddle.
callyral@pawb.social 2 years ago
what are your component materials?
jaybone@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Carbon and Vodka.
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 2 years ago
The rocks, in time, compress Your blood to oil, Your flesh to coal, Enrich the soil, Not everybody’s goal.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
Literally dirt and water. A muddy puddle. XD
merari42@lemmy.world 2 years ago
He was under a lot of pressure
lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 years ago
That’s what happens when you donate your body for science
lobut@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
A Shell of their former selves.
4oreman@lemy.lol 2 years ago
brutal.
demesisx@infosec.pub 2 years ago
I read that algae actually makes up more of what we know as oil than decomposed dinosaurs.
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
Algae and plankton. It also obviously takes longer than a few minutes, like at least an hour.
idunnololz@lemmy.world 2 years ago
At least