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[–] teft@lemmy.world 173 points 2 years ago (6 children)

No energy products come from dinosaurs. Coal is from trees and oil is from plankton. Natural gas is a byproduct of oil.

[–] PythagreousTitties@lemm.ee 51 points 2 years ago

Stop destroying the dream!!

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 35 points 2 years ago

No, can't be true. In Mrs. Doubtfire, it's explicitly said that crude oil is from the remainders of dinosaurs.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] teft@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago
[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Wait, has school been lying ALL This time? What actually happens to bones?

[–] teft@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Mostly they disintegrate. Some become fossils depending on how they died and the conditions surrounding their body.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No, they just haven't been clarifying.

It was an early misunderstanding of tar pit and peat bog excavations as I understand it.

Schools should teach about the bone wars and how they set back set back research by hundreds of years and created dinosaur myths that persist to this day.

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That sounds so bad ass. The bone wars, I would pay extra attention to that.

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Sounds like a full-length porno film to me.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 11 points 2 years ago

I think it's just that there's many orders of magnitude more plankton than anything else, so the dinos might still have ended up as oil, just a negligible fraction (though this is a complete guess by me)

[–] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oil is from plankton? Well, I learnt something today.

[edit] Is it because of the term fossil fuels and people go "wait, I've seen some fossils, OF DINOSAURS"

[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Also birds are not the descendants of terrestrial dinosaurs. They are dinosaurs, but their ancestors were also birds.

[–] OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are you saying that theropods weren't terrestrial?

[–] Guest_User@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Just look at them, they are clearly extraterrestrial!

[–] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

They are.

The common ancestor of all dinosaurs was certainly terrestrial, so logically that means birds are the descendants of terrestrial dinosaurs. That was in the Trias. By the Jurassic, small tree-climbing theropods with feathers were gliding and soon starting to fly.

[–] psmgx@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago

Crude is mostly prehistoric plants, not Dino

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago (3 children)

...who cooks nuggets in a pan???

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They’re extra crispy if you pan fry in a little oil.

[–] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 1 points 2 years ago

I prefer the kind of crispyness that only a deepfrier can achieve. You know what I'm saying?

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why not? You microwaving? Not a crispy enjoyer?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ever hear of frying, whether deep- or air-?

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Of course. Did I say pan was the only way to get crispy?

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 34 points 2 years ago
[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 23 points 2 years ago

Also there are ultra-popular movies about you.

However they keep messing up how you look on purpose, because since they've learned more about you, they think all the made-up bullshit was cooler than the real you.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Chekhovs_Gun@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

There are also shark shaped fish sticks....do you like fish sticks?

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't care if I am eaten after I die. Go nuts.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What kind of nut would you suggest baking with you? I'm thinking pecans.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I'm preferential to walnut

[–] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago

Don't ask what's it like for our remains in the future.

[–] neclimdul@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

"What's a human?"

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago

Whole lots of BM