You guys ever wonder if oil wells had ecosystems in them that we don't know

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drilldo squirt: a beautiful, soft meat sack

about? Like subterranean oil fish or something? I mean, it's both an energy source and a liquid medium.

# ? Jan 15, 2016 01:04

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# ? May 26, 2024 03:19

drilldo squirt: a beautiful, soft meat sack

Can you imagine the dead oil fish littering used wells? Entire ecosystems being destroyed so we can drive to McDonald and get fat.

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# ? Jan 15, 2016 01:21

drilldo squirt: a beautiful, soft meat sack

I guess that will be their revenge on us. We will kill ourselves with the things we gained from killing them.

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# ? Jan 15, 2016 01:22

Luvcow: One day nearer spring

there are ghosts that live in that oil, thats what oil is

# ? Jan 15, 2016 01:32

SIDS Vicious

the ghost sof dinosaurs ooooOOOOOooooooOOOOOooooo ROAR

wow that was an old sig lol
chec k out my drawings the sidsons

# ? Jan 15, 2016 01:36

drilldo squirt: a beautiful, soft meat sack

If oil comes from dinosaurs we should clone some bury them and then check on it in a couple years to make oil a renewable resource.

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# ? Jan 15, 2016 01:43

mags: I am a congenital optimist.

Oil actually comes from decaying plant matter from the carboniferous period of geologic history, long before dinosaurs, during the age of reptiles when large, swampy forests covered the earth. All of the plants were related to ferns, and they spored instead of producing seeds. Predominant animal life included giant insects and four legged reptiles.

# ? Jan 15, 2016 01:48

Luvcow: One day nearer spring

they were really dirty nasty greasy creatures, just shambled around glistening with grease, left trails of grease behind them. I'm not sure if we want to bring back such a disgusting creature.

# ? Jan 15, 2016 01:48

mags: I am a congenital optimist.

Covering for sec drone is kinda fun.

# ? Jan 15, 2016 01:48

Luvcow: One day nearer spring

scientists think dinosaurs had really bad acne

# ? Jan 15, 2016 01:49

mags: I am a congenital optimist.

Correction, amphibians were the dominant land animal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous

# ? Jan 15, 2016 01:51

drilldo squirt: a beautiful, soft meat sack

I don't know what kind of thing we need to bury in the ground so that our lord God can turn it into oil but let's find out and do it!

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# ? Jan 15, 2016 01:52

mags: I am a congenital optimist.

...but we already know...

# ? Jan 15, 2016 01:53

drilldo squirt: a beautiful, soft meat sack

What is it? I have a hole dug and bad credit card debt.

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# ? Jan 15, 2016 01:54

drilldo squirt: a beautiful, soft meat sack

Question, do I have to kill them first or can I just throw them in the ditch and let nature take it's course? Which makes more expensive oil?

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# ? Jan 15, 2016 01:55

mags: I am a congenital optimist.

I just told you. Dead ferns from over 285 million years ago.

# ? Jan 15, 2016 02:01

alnilam

woah what if like.,. the oil itself is still alive?? the algae and ferns found a new level of consciousness and ascended into the gooey black

_{ty manifisto}

# ? Jan 15, 2016 02:15

drilldo squirt: a beautiful, soft meat sack

That would be super hosed up dude, can you imagine what it would be like to loose a little part of yourself every day? I'm getting uncomfortable just thinking about it.

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# ? Jan 15, 2016 02:46

Manifisto

*gazes wistfully at hairs in comb*

ty nesamdoom!

# ? Jan 15, 2016 02:53

alnilam

"Childhood's End" but about algae, and the sequel is them getting burned and loving up the planet

# ? Jan 15, 2016 03:09

joke_explainer

A really good question and really considerate. It's the kind of perspective change that you don't hear about a lot. There are few things as extensively studied with mad commercial dollars as crude oil up out of the ground, and we don't really see any sign of a complex ecosystem. Your basic subterranean crude reservoir is the result of layers of sediment cracking, where the sediment has sandwiched dead biomatter and cooked it under pressure and heat for ages. The layers crack and a 'trap' is formed, where there's a high-pressure pooling of the crude oil. As far as we can tell, it's not conducive to life, at least not any kind of multicellular life, and no single-celled organisms seem able to break it down at the temperatures and pressures you find in a natural reservoir. For non-bacteria life, there's basically two paths to energy: The bacteria specialization that gave rise to plants and the bacteria specialization that gave rise to animals. Bacteria are nowhere near as limited and have hundreds of different ways of metabolising stuff. So if there was any kind of ecosystem in an petroleum reservoir it'd be bacteria, but I don't think we have any evidence of any thriving colonies down there (It'd be pretty obvious if there was something as big as fish or something was coming up the wells, it'd violently explode because of the sudden and catastrophic drop in pressure!)

# ? Jan 15, 2016 03:36

drilldo squirt: a beautiful, soft meat sack

Yeah but if their was evidence of that would the oil companies tell people?

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# ? Jan 15, 2016 03:39

joke_explainer

drilldo squirt posted:

Yeah but if their was evidence of that would the oil companies tell people?

I don't know. But there's plenty of well-documented oil drilling and analysis, and you've no doubt seen open wells that just spewed their contents around after tapping like you see in old videos of the oil rush, and scientific, non-corporate sponsored oil drilling even. Plus the damage they could do to their competitors if they were to reveal it. Given the probably-billions of oil reservoirs around the planet it would be a very difficult secret to keep.

# ? Jan 15, 2016 03:54

Luvcow: One day nearer spring

mister magpie posted:

Covering for sec drone is kinda fun.

mister magpie posted:

Correction, amphibians were the dominant land animal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous

i stand by my greasy dinaosaurs

# ? Jan 15, 2016 04:22

Luvcow: One day nearer spring

joke_explainer posted:

A really good question and really considerate. It's the kind of perspective change that you don't hear about a lot. There are few things as extensively studied with mad commercial dollars as crude oil up out of the ground, and we don't really see any sign of a complex ecosystem. Your basic subterranean crude reservoir is the result of layers of sediment cracking, where the sediment has sandwiched dead biomatter and cooked it under pressure and heat for ages. The layers crack and a 'trap' is formed, where there's a high-pressure pooling of the crude oil. As far as we can tell, it's not conducive to life, at least not any kind of multicellular life, and no single-celled organisms seem able to break it down at the temperatures and pressures you find in a natural reservoir. For non-bacteria life, there's basically two paths to energy: The bacteria specialization that gave rise to plants and the bacteria specialization that gave rise to animals. Bacteria are nowhere near as limited and have hundreds of different ways of metabolising stuff. So if there was any kind of ecosystem in an petroleum reservoir it'd be bacteria, but I don't think we have any evidence of any thriving colonies down there (It'd be pretty obvious if there was something as big as fish or something was coming up the wells, it'd violently explode because of the sudden and catastrophic drop in pressure!)

in the idea that everything has a soul, spirit or connection with the universal unconscious is it not reasonable to assume that there are ghosts in oil or that oil is ghosts, as everything that has passed is ghosts or an echo of the life that once lived there?

# ? Jan 15, 2016 04:24

drilldo squirt: a beautiful, soft meat sack

If that's true then everything would be haunted and I don't notice a lot of ghosts.

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# ? Jan 15, 2016 04:49

i am he

thats because my cars eats them up and spits them out to make me go fast

# ? Jan 15, 2016 04:50

Luvcow: One day nearer spring

drilldo squirt posted:

If that's true then everything would be haunted and I don't notice a lot of ghosts.

everything is haunted :shrug:

# ? Jan 15, 2016 04:51

Luvcow: One day nearer spring

i am he posted:

thats because my cars eats them up and spits them out to make me go fast

your car eats the ghosts by exploding them

# ? Jan 15, 2016 04:52

GODSPEED JOHN GLENN: I put my thumb up my bum and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth.

joke_explainer posted:

if there was something as big as fish or something was coming up the wells, it'd violently explode because of the sudden and catastrophic drop in pressure!

story of my life

# ? Jan 15, 2016 05:50

drilldo squirt: a beautiful, soft meat sack

Ghost world.

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# ? Jan 15, 2016 05:54

SIDS Vicious

love that comic the movie was okay, steve buscemi was brilliant

wow that was an old sig lol
chec k out my drawings the sidsons

# ? Jan 15, 2016 05:58

drilldo squirt: a beautiful, soft meat sack

Ghost oil fish swimming around in the blackness of a dried out well are real.

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# ? Jan 15, 2016 06:08

Cyberpunkey Monkey: by Nyc_Tattoo

this is, also, why I use my thighs to make a bicycle go.

also, food tastes better than gasoline and I like to eat.

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# ? Jan 15, 2016 06:51

drilldo squirt: a beautiful, soft meat sack

osirisisdead posted:

this is, also, why I use my thighs to make a bicycle go.

also, food tastes better than gasoline and I like to eat.

Yeah, but can you bike across town for a job every day? Plus I would rather deal with vengeful ghost oil fish than vengeful ghost burgers.

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# ? Jan 15, 2016 06:57

Cyberpunkey Monkey: by Nyc_Tattoo

My job right now is about a mile away because I make comprimises in the rest of my life to go with my desire to cycle commute rather than to get in a loving car to join your stupid rat race every day.

I hate cars and wish we would ban them in cities so that fat faggots would have to not sit in their fatmobiles behind their tinded windows and instead be visible to the universe wherever they shall go. gently caress your fatmobiles.

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# ? Jan 15, 2016 07:01

drilldo squirt: a beautiful, soft meat sack

osirisisdead posted:

My job right now is about a mile away because I make comprimises in the rest of my life to go with my desire to cycle commute rather than to get in a loving car to join your stupid rat race every day.

I hate cars and wish we would ban them in cities so that fat faggots would have to not sit in their fatmobiles behind their tinded windows and instead be visible to the universe wherever they shall go. gently caress your fatmobiles.

I hate them also.

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# ? Jan 15, 2016 07:04

i am he

if i make the ghosts comfy they make cool engine revving nioses when there are cuties walking by

# ? Jan 15, 2016 07:05

drilldo squirt: a beautiful, soft meat sack

Driving sucks.

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# ? May 26, 2024 03:19

Cyberpunkey Monkey: by Nyc_Tattoo

I like to ride my bicycle. It allows me to eat ghost burgers and pizza without worrying that my heart will forget how to pump blood.

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# ? Jan 15, 2016 07:07

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