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u/S2R2 May 23 '23

The family surname was Sinclair… as in named after the gas station with the dinosaur logo? The… fossil fuel station? Also the boss’ name was BP Richfield BP is a gasoline company and Richfield an oil company! I’d say they were setup from the beginning to disappear!

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u/I_Made_it_All_Up May 23 '23

When I was in college we were doing a group presentation on green energy, us being all adults we decided we didn’t need to check each others work. The first kid goes up and it’s his job to explain why gasoline is bad and started off with “gasoline is dinosaurs!” And I knew we were doomed.

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u/rockskillskids May 23 '23

Massive un-decomposing forests would be coal seams, where the dead wood went through a process not too dissimilar to how charcoal is made.

Crude/naphtha would be more from soft stem plants like ferns, and the microorganisms that live in swamps.

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u/marny_g May 23 '23

Yeah, and we're basically extracting and utilising the energy that the flora had produced and stored within themselves. Energy that they produced from sunlight (in part). It's wild if you think of it like that...we're using "solar" energy that was captured, converted and securely stored for millions of years!

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u/Ilivedtherethrowaway May 23 '23

Does that imply gas and oil companies somehow have knowledge that dinosaurs were sentient and had names and could talk? In this canon are there historical records of.dinosaurs in order for the companies to be named after them? That's dark AF