it wont, but it technically could. We would just need to be able to achieve the ability to travel near the speed of light

Cool info. The phrase "fossil fuel" was & is just a marketing technique to imply very limited scarcity.

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True. Humans could even manufacture oil and refine gasoline from it... But multinational corporations take crude oil bc it has a better profit margin & they have to maintain the overwhelmingly successful guise of scarcity, bc that too is good for profit margins.

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You exploit grass and twigs to survive then

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I agree with your statement but your link is hot garbage.

Let’s make a new years resolution to not post this one again.

The number of people who saw the original post will never increase, so being that I'm not one of them in all the years I've been on reddit, I'm thankful for reposts, and nonjudgemental of those who imply they are. Happy holidays.

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No, but the number of times this thought gets reposted does. . . constantly

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Stupid people shouldn’t post because they don’t understand science

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If only I was willing to waste my time “researching” fossil fuels and the Mesozoic era to then anoint myself an expert in the field that’s do ‘doing my own research’. If only I was arrogant to think that these are such simple questions.

At what depths, and locations, are all types of fossil fuels found around the world?

What are all the locations and depths of dinosaur life that died ?

Calculate probability that, on some reasonable level, these remains formed hydrocarbon materials potentially used as fuel?

Super simple.

That's smart, I may have to do that next year.

>am vegan and am also alive

Source? /s

Well, since eating animals isn’t needed to survive it doesn’t really matter anyway. Source: am vegan and am also alive.

If only there were some infinitely vast collection of information at our fingertips, through which we could look up such simple questions.

No it doesn’t. The vast majority of fossil fuels come from plants, namely trees during a specific interval in history, because detritivores hadn’t yet evolved the ability to break down lignin. Funny how many people actually think fossil fuels are derived from dinosaur remains.

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I always had someone else write things for me. We did a week long Secret Santa exchange and it was a different writer each day to throw them off the path.

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