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[–] lawrence@lemmy.world 61 points 1 month 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 month 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 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

… are they not fossils of the cyanobacteria

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 month 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 month 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 month ago

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 8 points 1 month ago

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

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

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

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

This is our vengeance for them causing global warming.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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

[–] amorpheus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Additionally, the batter is made up of their eggs.

[–] Mustakrakish@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

You cook dino nuggies in a pan?

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

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

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

Not after that anymore.