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[-] Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 59 points 1 week ago

OIL DOES NOT COME FROM DINOSAURS

[-] Malgas@beehaw.org 11 points 1 week ago

Plastic algae is real algae?

[-] gramgan@lemmy.ml 48 points 1 week ago
[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago
[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

unexpectedly.... profound?

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago

I think I heard that most of it is algae and plankton and stuff.

[-] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

That and trees from a time when there wero no organisms yet that could decompose cellulose.

[-] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago

that's where coal comes from I thought

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

*Lignin, not cellulose.

[-] Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz 26 points 1 week ago

Petrolium is made from ancient algae and plants, not dinosaurs.

[-] xor@infosec.pub 1 points 5 days ago
[-] UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ancient algae that fed on dinosaurs

/s

[-] Tyfud@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

Except most fossil fuels come from decayed plant matter.

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 18 points 1 week ago

But if carnivorous dinosaurs eat herbivorous dinosaurs, and herbivorous dinosaurs eat plants, then all dinosaurs are plants.

And plants eat sunlight, so all life on earth is the sun.

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

Yes, we are all stardust.

[-] Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Im vegan because i subsist off of grass-fed beef.

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

See, I knew the world revolves around me.

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 2 points 1 week ago

Or, in this formulation, the world is you? :-O

[-] doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 week ago

Chicken nuggets shaped like dinos are a better example

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[-] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

Sort of, like Pringles aren’t really potato chips, but they are made of the same stuff and have the same shape.

[-] AncientFutureNow@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

im 14 and this is deep

[-] jlow@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

So we're eating credit cards-amounts of dinosaurs, got it (I think this has been debunked, recently?)

this post was submitted on 09 May 2024
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