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[โ€“] [email protected] 72 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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

[โ€“] pyre 33 points 2 months ago

but that T-Rex served as a marine

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That t-rex was a swimmer ๐ŸŠ

[โ€“] Klear 30 points 2 months ago (1 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€“] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

Awesome fact btw

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] yogurtwrong 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

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.

[โ€“] asteriskeverything 5 points 2 months ago

That's super cool I had no idea!! Does anyone have fun sources to start with?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

TIL, thanks.

[โ€“] [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.

[โ€“] [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.

[โ€“] idunnololz 3 points 2 months ago

At least

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

You see, if aborted babies were a viable fuel source abortions would be government funded by now.

[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Imagine if when you died you just turned back into a pile of your component materials. Leaving behind a muddy puddle.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

what are your component materials?

[โ€“] jaybone 7 points 2 months ago

Carbon and Vodka.

[โ€“] Reddfugee42 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The rocks, in time, compress
Your blood to oil,
Your flesh to coal,
Enrich the soil,
Not everybody's goal.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Literally dirt and water. A muddy puddle. XD

[โ€“] merari42 15 points 2 months ago

He was under a lot of pressure

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

A Shell of their former selves.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

That's what happens when you donate your body for science

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

brutal.