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[-] Lux 60 points 1 year ago

OIL DOES NOT COME FROM DINOSAURS

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

Plastic algae is real algae?

[-] gramgan@lemmy.ml 45 points 1 year ago
[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

unexpectedly.... profound?

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

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

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

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

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

that's where coal comes from I thought

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

*Lignin, not cellulose.

[-] Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz 25 points 1 year ago

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

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 17 points 1 year 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 year ago

Yes, we are all stardust.

[-] Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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

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

See, I knew the world revolves around me.

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

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

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

Chicken nuggets shaped like dinos are a better example

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] AncientFutureNow@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

im 14 and this is deep

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

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

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