I read that algae actually makes up more of what we know as oil than decomposed dinosaurs.
Edit: the source of that tidbit. He does a cool demo at the beginning.
Algae and plankton. It also obviously takes longer than a few minutes, like at least an hour.
To ruin the joke i learned recently that oil comes exclusively from dead marine life 🤓
but that T-Rex served as a marine
That t-rex was a swimmer 🏊
Fun fact: we now know for a fact that many dinosaurs could swim, including T Rex! How do we know? There are footprints that get smaller and shallower as the dinos got deeped into the water, eventually reduced to just small scratches by the tips of their claws and eventually disappearing altogether. It looks something like this:
That's super cool I had no idea!! Does anyone have fun sources to start with?
TIL, thanks.
You see, if aborted babies were a viable fuel source abortions would be government funded by now.
Imagine if when you died you just turned back into a pile of your component materials. Leaving behind a muddy puddle.
what are your component materials?
Carbon and Vodka.
Literally dirt and water. A muddy puddle. XD
He was under a lot of pressure
A Shell of their former selves.
That's what happens when you donate your body for science
