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