Post AdfzcXBxikkRCWiywa by loehwe@social.tchncs.de
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 (DIR) Post #AdfzSTp3OTFPr4DOF6 by stux@mstdn.social
       2024-01-09T17:26:20Z
       
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       Few nights ago in bed I was wondering; "is a plastic bottle basically the same as a dinosaur?"Luckily we have the internet and now I know!It's not :ed_grin: "the petroleum we use to make plastics actually comes from ancient ocean floors, where there weren't any dinosaurs"
       
 (DIR) Post #AdfzcXBxikkRCWiywa by loehwe@social.tchncs.de
       2024-01-09T17:28:06Z
       
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       @stux pitty, makes these bottles even less exciting :/
       
 (DIR) Post #AdfzfUrQqPegq8XBUO by vincent@mastodon.coffee
       2024-01-09T17:28:42Z
       
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       @stux Maybe a plesiosaur carcass slipped into the muck of algae and plankton that we eventually extruded as crude oil. They're dinosaur-adjacent.
       
 (DIR) Post #Adfzg7uHfk6rwHAVqi by stux@mstdn.social
       2024-01-09T17:28:47Z
       
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       @loehwe But also a good feeling we don't use their ancient bodies for something so stupid and toxic
       
 (DIR) Post #AdfzhYLypUYIFensEi by cmdr_nova@corteximplant.com
       2024-01-09T17:29:03Z
       
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       @stux makes me think of that time i was watching a video where either a real person or a fictional character said that all the water we drink is a little bit recycled dinosaur pee and I've never stopped thinking about that
       
 (DIR) Post #AdfzpTywxyT50hoQe8 by stux@mstdn.social
       2024-01-09T17:30:28Z
       
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       @cmdr_nova Perhaps a bit :bloblaugh: Atoms are even more extreme! Some you have now where part of Einstein and Newton!
       
 (DIR) Post #Adfzr4UYi1ywX7M3WK by mmaniac90@mstdn.social
       2024-01-09T17:30:48Z
       
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       @stux Here's the question I pondered. Why is oil not renewable? Why is it not being formed rn? Answer-- Because NOW there are microbes that eat the dinosaurs (or whatever sea life) when it dies instead of letting it turn into oil. Now ya know. 😀
       
 (DIR) Post #Adg0C5LkiM9pH8FvCC by trantion@masto.ai
       2024-01-09T17:34:39Z
       
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       @stux Randall Munroe looked into this for #XKCD and apparently the answer is more "not much, but maybe a little":https://what-if.xkcd.com/101/
       
 (DIR) Post #Adg0LQkEXQluEjA9Eu by stux@mstdn.social
       2024-01-09T17:36:18Z
       
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       @trantion Yeah that must be! :blobcatgiggle: Ofc there where dino's down there but prob just a super small percent indeed