Ray is basic.

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• Wilco@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Can blow some MFers mind when you tell them trees took Earth by surprise and were so new that they didn’t rot. Trees just fell over and stayed there forever, well … until they got turned into oil.

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  • Gumus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    ☝️🤓 Trees turned to coal. Oil came from plankton and marine life.

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• immutable@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s such a shame that all of human knowledge isnt readily available to this person. Oh it is, on the very device he’s using to post this, how embarrassing

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  • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    To be fair, the entire thing could be made up. This post is likely to get far more likes and comments than just stating sharks are older than trees.

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• bryophile@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Maybe it feels counter-intuitive to some that sharks were there before trees…

  But I hope it is intuitive that there was water long before there was soil? Then it’s just a small step to realize life in water has had a much longer time to develop.

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  • rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m pretty sure they’ve never thought about what soil actually is and think it’s just been around forever since it’s just dirt.

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    • bryophile@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Who are these people?

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  • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Or at least lichens.

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    • bryophile@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Link

      That’s debatable, most sources estimate mosses to have been there before lichens. It’s all estimations spanning millions of years of course.

      Mosses have leaves with chlorophyll though! Way more interesting in the context of there being trees or not. Lichens are just scabs on a rock.

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I knew someone who utterly refused to believe that dinosaurs weren’t the first organisms in existence. He literally thought it was dinosaurs, then there was an asteroid impact and then basically humans arrived about 10 minutes later.

  People have absolutely no understanding of the immense amount of time that has existed before we came along.

  Mind he also gave me that whole if earth was 1 cm closer to the sun, we would all burn up malarkey, so maybe he’s just an idiot.

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• mech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Sharks are older than the rings of Saturn.

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  • xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sharks are ^possibly^ older than the north star

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    • mech@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      According to claims on social media platforms such as Reddit and X

      I fucking hate modern media.

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  • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sharks are older than the current rings of Saturn, and I’ll bet that the e-ring or f-ring (whichever one is primarily made of ice spewed out of enceladus) has been around for a few billion years.

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  • Academic_Bumblebee@ani.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is fuckin metal

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  • JillyB@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Ahh fuck

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• BillyClark@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “If a tree is so basic, then why aren’t there trees growing in the middle of the ocean?” seems like the sort of argument that would impress Ray.

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Bull kelp:

    Image

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• Penguincoder@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The oldest shark teeth are from the Early Devonian, about 410 million years old. These are without a doubt sharks, although different species than exist currently. The earliest fossil of a plant engaging in this evolutionary strategy is a 12 meter tall palm-like plant from China. It dates back, again, to the Early Devonian, but less than 400 million years ago.

  Which means the first toothed sharks predate the first plant which could be called a tree by 10 million years.

  Sharks are older than the rings of Saturn!

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• TheNamlessGuy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  1000% engagement bait

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• SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Huh. Yeah I never knew. Never really thought about it but knew not nonetheless.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Ask that dude if he ever saw a tree under the ocean.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This whole drowned forests off the coast of the UK and I also believe New Zealand has something similar. That whole region is basically just a drowned continent with a few mountains sticking up, forming islands.

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