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[โ€“] [email protected] 72 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

[โ€“] pyre 33 points 1 month ago

but that T-Rex served as a marine

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

That t-rex was a swimmer ๐ŸŠ

[โ€“] Klear 30 points 1 month 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 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€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] yogurtwrong 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

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

TIL, thanks.

[โ€“] [email protected] 71 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] idunnololz 3 points 1 month ago

At least

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 1 month 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 1 month ago (3 children)

what are your component materials?

[โ€“] jaybone 7 points 1 month ago

Carbon and Vodka.

[โ€“] Reddfugee42 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month ago

Literally dirt and water. A muddy puddle. XD

[โ€“] merari42 15 points 1 month ago

He was under a lot of pressure

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

A Shell of their former selves.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

brutal.