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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OIL DOES NOT COME FROM DINOSAURS

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Plastic algae is real algae?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is pure gold

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

unexpectedly.... profound?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think I heard that most of it is algae and plankton and stuff.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That and trees from a time when there wero no organisms yet that could decompose cellulose.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

that's where coal comes from I thought

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

*Lignin, not cellulose.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Petrolium is made from ancient algae and plants, not dinosaurs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ancient algae that fed on dinosaurs

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

mostly...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Chicken nuggets shaped like dinos are a better example

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Sort of, like Pringles aren’t really potato chips, but they are made of the same stuff and have the same shape.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

im 14 and this is deep

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So we're eating credit cards-amounts of dinosaurs, got it (I think this has been debunked, recently?)