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[–] lawrence@lemmy.world 63 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I mean, it's not just dino corpses. We also use an incredible amount of dead forests as fuel. We really showed nature who's the boss, huh?

[–] Sunschein@lemmy.world 57 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fun fact: Oil mostly comes from the a mass extinction event involving cyanobacteria, not dinosaurs. We just can't stop calling them fossil fuels.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

… are they not fossils of the cyanobacteria

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not by the usual definition. The carbon, etc that used to form the cyanobacteria is completely broken down and formed into miscellaneous hydrocarbons. There's no petrified remains, nor rock impressions of the bacteria.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

FWIW that was always my concept of fossil fuels to begin with.

Like whatever you just said, but for dinosaurs and all the life from before.

[–] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

dinosaurs are a basically insignificant % of the biomass by my understanding

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But aren't their atoms perfectly preserved? (gasping at straws)

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Not all of them. Some of the carbon atoms will have decayed into (I think) nitrogen.

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago

I mean, it’s not our fault nature is so flammable

[–] WanderingThoughts 9 points 1 week ago

In think nature is warming up a big dish of karma.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It was way, way, way before dinosaurs. Actually dinosaur remains are a poor combustible (whereas mummies, on the other hand...).

[–] amorpheus@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Additionally, the batter is made up of their eggs.

[–] mogoh@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago
[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So vegetarians who use solar power are really helping human-dino relations

[–] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I dont know, hopefully
i eat veggy dino nuggies
so i still might scare them

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

This is our vengeance for them causing global warming.

[–] Mustakrakish@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

You cook dino nuggies in a pan?

[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Does the Dino ask "What's a Human?"

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Not after that anymore.