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[โ€“] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 73 points 1 month ago (9 children)

To ruin the joke i learned recently that oil comes exclusively from dead marine life ๐Ÿค“

[โ€“] ICastFist@programming.dev 21 points 1 month ago (5 children)

That t-rex was a swimmer ๐ŸŠ

[โ€“] Klear@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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:

[โ€“] Courantdair@jlai.lu 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How do they know they weren't taking off? Maybe they were able to fly without wings!

Awesome fact btw

[โ€“] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Then there'd be one really deep print as they kicked off.

[โ€“] yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

But what if they had a organelle which generated helium and made them slowly float

Hydrogen.

You can't generate helium unless you have a fusion reactor.

Actually, nuclear powered flying T. rex sounds cool, so let's go with it.

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