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[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I read that algae actually makes up more of what we know as oil than decomposed dinosaurs.

Edit: the source of that tidbit. He does a cool demo at the beginning.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Algae and plankton. It also obviously takes longer than a few minutes, like at least an hour.

[–] idunnololz 3 points 2 months ago

At least