To ruin the joke i learned recently that oil comes exclusively from dead marine life π€
69 0 Replybut that T-Rex served as a marine
31 0 ReplyThat t-rex was a swimmer π
19 0 ReplyFun 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:
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That's super cool I had no idea!! Does anyone have fun sources to start with?
4 0 ReplyTIL, thanks.
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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.
72 0 ReplyAlgae and plankton. It also obviously takes longer than a few minutes, like at least an hour.
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He was under a lot of pressure
14 0 ReplyImagine if when you died you just turned back into a pile of your component materials. Leaving behind a muddy puddle.
24 0 Replywhat are your component materials?
9 0 ReplyCarbon and Vodka.
7 0 ReplyThe rocks, in time, compress
Your blood to oil,
Your flesh to coal,
Enrich the soil,
Not everybody's goal.7 0 ReplyLiterally dirt and water. A muddy puddle. XD
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You see, if aborted babies were a viable fuel source abortions would be government funded by now.
26 1 ReplyA Shell of their former selves.
13 0 ReplyThat's what happens when you donate your body for science
12 0 Replybrutal.
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