Living things live and die all the time, plant and animal. I don't understand why the things that have died since the dinosaurs do not make fossil fuels.
I also don't understand how dinosaurs could be stuck in tar pits created by other decaying dinosaurs if took as long to generate fossil fuels as the scientific community would have us believe.
2006-06-21 10:03:06 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Whoa, Nellie. I wasn't looking for a fight. I was asking a real question. Also, some of you could be a liiittle more gracious, maybe some kid had the same question .
2006-06-21 10:48:15 · update #1
It takes millions of years for the flesh and stuff to be put under enough pressure and change into fossil fuels. The stuff we're using today came from animals that died like, 15 million years ago or something like that.
2006-06-21 10:07:38 · answer #1 · answered by savannah 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, some scientists have found what might be a bacteria that reproduces that might be able to be used as fuel for cars (the bacteria, unfortunately, is only found a couple miles under the Earth's surface in a gold mine in Africa)...the bacteria will reproduce and the global fuel supply will never run out. I forget lots of information on the topic because I lost the magazine article in which I read it.
2016-05-20 09:37:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not just roting flesh. It's dead organic material, time, and pressure. More fossil fuel WILL regenerate eventually, we're just going to have to wait a few million years.
It's more complex than just dead dinosaurs, it's a huge process of many different types of materials, and conditions.
2006-06-21 10:11:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it takes time to turnorganic matter into oil or coal, as well as heat and pressure only found deep inside the earth. Stuff that's died recently is on the surface, and turns into soil rather than fossil fuel.
2006-06-21 10:05:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you weren't paying attention in class when they taught relative time periods. If you go to most colleges that have a good science department, most have the capability to make synthetic coal, rubies, diamonds and so on using the process we understand creates these things from organic matter under conditions of high heat and temperature (or less heat and temperature for really, really long time periods).
But if you don't "trust the scientific community" that's fine by us. Just please don't ask for medicine or surgery if you get sick or get hit by a bus. It would be disingenuous of you.
2006-06-21 10:13:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
b/c fossils not only take thousands of years to make, but it takes extreme circumstances.
and FYI-- it doesnt come from rotting flesh, it comes fromt he fossilized bones, which wouldnt have any flesh on it by the time it fossilized.
2006-06-21 10:09:17 · answer #6 · answered by neonatheart 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because the fossil fuel takes a long time to get an amount large enough to actually be usable.
2006-06-21 10:06:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We're using it at a fantastic rate, about 1,000,000 times faster than it forms.
2006-06-21 10:07:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋