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[–] teft@lemmy.world 185 points 1 month 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 56 points 1 month ago

Stop destroying the dream!!

[–] Successful_Try543 39 points 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] teft@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago
[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

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

[–] teft@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month 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 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Sounds like a full-length porno film to me.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 11 points 1 month 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)

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

Are you saying that theropods weren't terrestrial?

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

Just look at them, they are clearly extraterrestrial!

[–] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month 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.

[–] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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"

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 1 points 1 month 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 1 month ago (1 children)

Why not? You microwaving? Not a crispy enjoyer?

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

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

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 36 points 1 month ago
[–] psmgx@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago

Crude is mostly prehistoric plants, not Dino

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 29 points 1 month 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 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Chekhovs_Gun@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm preferential to walnut

[–] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

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

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

"What's a human?"

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

Whole lots of BM

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I don't think bones alone count as a corpse, so the fossilized remains of bones definitely don't.