To ruin the joke i learned recently that oil comes exclusively from dead marine life 🤓
I'm not sorry.
Submitted 7 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
pyre@lemmy.world 7 months ago
but that T-Rex served as a marine
ICastFist@programming.dev 7 months ago
That t-rex was a swimmer 🏊
Klear@lemmy.world 7 months 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 7 months ago
That’s super cool I had no idea!! Does anyone have fun sources to start with?
Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
TIL, thanks.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 7 months 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 7 months ago
what are your component materials?
jaybone@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Carbon and Vodka.
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The rocks, in time, compress Your blood to oil, Your flesh to coal, Enrich the soil, Not everybody’s goal.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Literally dirt and water. A muddy puddle. XD
merari42@lemmy.world 7 months ago
He was under a lot of pressure
lugal@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
That’s what happens when you donate your body for science
lobut@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
A Shell of their former selves.
4oreman@lemy.lol 7 months ago
brutal.
demesisx@infosec.pub 7 months ago
I read that algae actually makes up more of what we know as oil than decomposed dinosaurs.
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Algae and plankton. It also obviously takes longer than a few minutes, like at least an hour.
idunnololz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
At least