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Wednesday, 11 January 2017

playing with pleistocene

A youngster recently asked me a good question.

If oil is made of fossils like plants and dinosaurs and plastic is made from oil then are plastic toy dinosaurs made of real dinosaurs?

Whoosh!

I said it was a good one!
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4 comments:

  1. KevinD1/11/2017 6:23 pm

    I thought oil was the remains of decomposed marine microorganisms, rather than bits of dead reptile (but then I'm a physicist, not a biologist!).

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    1. WOODSY1/11/2017 7:54 pm

      your'e right of course Kev, I just liked the symmetry of his argument! ha ha

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  2. KevinD1/11/2017 8:25 pm

    Maybe there's scope for a range of plastic pre-cambrian plankton toys?

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    1. WOODSY1/11/2017 8:41 pm

      H ah, there already is one! Plankton fro Spongebob! https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BQu-ZAhIL._SS500_.jpg

      In a bizarre twist in the tale, I read on the New Scientist site that plankton has been filmed eating plastic in the sea!

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