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minus-squarelawrence@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkarrow-up57·1 month agoI mean, it’s not just dino corpses. We also use an incredible amount of dead forests as fuel. We really showed nature who’s the boss, huh?
minus-squareSunschein@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up50·1 month agoFun fact: Oil mostly comes from the a mass extinction event involving cyanobacteria, not dinosaurs. We just can’t stop calling them fossil fuels.
minus-squareprettybunnys@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up20arrow-down1·1 month ago… are they not fossils of the cyanobacteria
minus-squareIrateAnteater@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up20·1 month agoNot by the usual definition. The carbon, etc that used to form the cyanobacteria is completely broken down and formed into miscellaneous hydrocarbons. There’s no petrified remains, nor rock impressions of the bacteria.
minus-squareprettybunnys@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·1 month agoFWIW that was always my concept of fossil fuels to begin with. Like whatever you just said, but for dinosaurs and all the life from before.
minus-squarehypnicjerk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agodinosaurs are a basically insignificant % of the biomass by my understanding
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoBut aren’t their atoms perfectly preserved? (gasping at straws)
minus-squareIrateAnteater@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoNot all of them. Some of the carbon atoms will have decayed into (I think) nitrogen.
minus-squareramble81@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 month agoI mean, it’s not our fault nature is so flammable
minus-squareWanderingThoughts@europe.publinkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 month agoIn think nature is warming up a big dish of karma.
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoIt was way, way, way before dinosaurs. Actually dinosaur remains are a poor combustible (whereas mummies, on the other hand…).
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I mean, it’s not just dino corpses. We also use an incredible amount of dead forests as fuel. We really showed nature who’s the boss, huh?
Fun fact: Oil mostly comes from the a mass extinction event involving cyanobacteria, not dinosaurs. We just can’t stop calling them fossil fuels.
… are they not fossils of the cyanobacteria
Not by the usual definition. The carbon, etc that used to form the cyanobacteria is completely broken down and formed into miscellaneous hydrocarbons. There’s no petrified remains, nor rock impressions of the bacteria.
FWIW that was always my concept of fossil fuels to begin with.
Like whatever you just said, but for dinosaurs and all the life from before.
dinosaurs are a basically insignificant % of the biomass by my understanding
But aren’t their atoms perfectly preserved? (gasping at straws)
Not all of them. Some of the carbon atoms will have decayed into (I think) nitrogen.
I mean, it’s not our fault nature is so flammable
In think nature is warming up a big dish of karma.
It was way, way, way before dinosaurs. Actually dinosaur remains are a poor combustible (whereas mummies, on the other hand…).