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[–] [email protected] 181 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago

Stop destroying the dream!!

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Sounds like a full-length porno film to me.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months 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)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are you saying that theropods weren't terrestrial?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Just look at them, they are clearly extraterrestrial!

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 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"

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why not? You microwaving? Not a crispy enjoyer?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago

Crude is mostly prehistoric plants, not Dino

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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

I'm preferential to walnut

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

"What's a human?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Whole lots of BM

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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