To ruin the joke i learned recently that oil comes exclusively from dead marine life 🤓
I'm not sorry.
Submitted 2 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
pyre@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
but that T-Rex served as a marine
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
That t-rex was a swimmer 🏊
Klear@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 weeks ago
That’s super cool I had no idea!! Does anyone have fun sources to start with?
Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
TIL, thanks.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 2 weeks 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 weeks ago
what are your component materials?
jaybone@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Carbon and Vodka.
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The rocks, in time, compress Your blood to oil, Your flesh to coal, Enrich the soil, Not everybody’s goal.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Literally dirt and water. A muddy puddle. XD
merari42@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
He was under a lot of pressure
lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
That’s what happens when you donate your body for science
lobut@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
A Shell of their former selves.
4oreman@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
brutal.
demesisx@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
I read that algae actually makes up more of what we know as oil than decomposed dinosaurs.
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Algae and plankton. It also obviously takes longer than a few minutes, like at least an hour.
idunnololz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
At least