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The circle of life (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

restoration

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Following the flow chart I came to the conclusion that plastic dinosaurs are real dinosaurs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

This meme never gets old

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Where’s my steggo?

ah there it is. hiding in the back,

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes, triceratops and T-Rex.

Why not the iPad? It’s as far time wise to the Rex as the Rex is to the tops.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are you confusing Triceratops with Stegosaurus? Triceratops and T. Rex both lived in the late Cretaceous.

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

Totally. I’m no Expertosaurus on this, I’d consider myself more a… Nooboraptor.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The circle of life is really about the CO~2~ we make along the way

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Actually, it's mostly plancton.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Let's make microplancton plastic toys.

Wait. What about microplastics in the oceans ?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They will become new oil in a million years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They won't. There are bacteria that eat plastic. There is no path* to creating oil or coal again, biology is too good at breaking hydrocarbon precursors

*Except by deliberate human industry

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

If enough greenhouse gasses get released by this breakdown of hydrocarbons, and the temperature rises enough, the oceans may stop circulating and loose all their oxygen. The resulting die off and anoxic environment might be enough to form a massive new layer of tar and proto-oil with some luck.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I thought this was a guide to the game "Workers and Resources: Society Republic"

I must be playing it too much...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I just picked that up in the summer sale! Looking forward to playing it.

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

It's way too addicting... But oh so good

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Since we are all full of microplastics, does that mean we are part dinosaur?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Plastic is almost entirely made from plants much older then dinosaurs, but if you ate a chicken on the other hand...

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

Does mechanically separated chicken count?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

We are full of stars

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I'd say no, because the microplastics aren't really a part of our DNA. But that's just my definition.

I think we could say that we all have dinosaurs inside us, just like our pesky skeletons.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Does it need to be part of your DNA?

If I weigh 99 Kg, and I eat 1 Kg of ravioli, I am 1% ravioli.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Like I said, it's just the way I feel about it. Yours is a compelling argument though, and honestly more fun!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

no, you'd be 69% ravioli

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

But aren't like 50% of cells in your body bacteria? I'd say those are considered part of you. But I get what you are saying.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

And yet, a sense of the true self exists in the false self.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Dinosaurs -> chickens

Chickens -> pulverized chicken paste

Pulverized chicken paste -> dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Dinosaurs = Chickens

Therefore dinosaur shaped dinosaur nuggets

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't think we have the technology yey to create dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets. The ones I have seen usually are shaped like nondescript blobs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It is possible, but it's wasteful and expensive.

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