Ackchually, oil is mostly from plant matter.
TIL
Does Oil Come From Dinosaur Fossils?
It’s a commonly spread fiction that oil comes from dinosaurs because when people hear fossils, their brains immediately jump to dinosaurs. However, that’s not the case.
The truth may be less exciting to some, but oil and other fossil fuels are not actually formed from the remains of dinosaurs. The oil we’re drilling and pumping to the surface as fuel is formed from diatoms, small organisms such as algae and bacteria that lived long before dinosaurs even existed. Source
A more entertaining source:
We need to induct Randal into the wholesome four at some point.
Edit: typo
I am under the impression that’s coal.
Oil is from sea life. Though I did read that in the 80s so entirely possible its nonsense.
Yes and no. They’re both hydrocarbons.
Coal is organic matter from dry land, so typically plants.
Oil is from organic matter that fell to the ocean floor, so microbial life, algae and the like.
But both are from and end up as the same types of organic molecules. Carbon and hydrogen.
Wow ok that’s cool… so then every* oil well is in a place that historically was underwater?
Dinosaurs -> chickens
Chickens -> pulverized chicken paste
Pulverized chicken paste -> dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets
@roguetrick @TheSlad I occasionally talk to groups kids or sometimes adults about dinosaurs. A lot of them are still surprised to learn that all birds actually are dinosaurs (descendants from the only lineage(s) that managed to survive the K-Pg extinction event).
Surprisingly (or perhaps not surprisingly) people’re often resistant to the idea that birds are dinosaurs, i.e. that not all dinosaurs died out. The fact that many were feathered is helping shift the paradigm
I don’t think we have the technology yey to create dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets. The ones I have seen usually are shaped like nondescript blobs.
Actually, it’s mostly plancton.
Let’s make microplancton plastic toys.
Wait. What about microplastics in the oceans ?
They won’t. There are bacteria that eat plastic. There is no path* to creating oil or coal again, biology is too good at breaking hydrocarbon precursors
*Except by deliberate human industry
Since we are all full of microplastics, does that mean we are part dinosaur?
I’d say no, because the microplastics aren’t really a part of our DNA. But that’s just my definition.
I think we could say that we all have dinosaurs inside us, just like our pesky skeletons.
Does it need to be part of your DNA?
If I weigh 99 Kg, and I eat 1 Kg of ravioli, I am 1% ravioli.
Plastic is almost entirely made from plants much older then dinosaurs, but if you ate a chicken on the other hand…
dinosaur necromancy
