Our oil is made up of fossil fuels from the dinosaurs. How many dinosaurs could their possible have been ever. Will this imaginary oil product last man kind forever. Neat trick.
2007-10-26 01:59:31 · 10 answers · asked by Jill S 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
http://www.livescience.com/environment/051011_oil_origins.html
The majority comes from plant material. A small amount from dinosaurs, possibly. Scientists are still not sure how much or where it all comes from.
2007-10-26 02:22:41 · answer #1 · answered by klemichek 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A dinosaur makes a better symbol of an oil company (Sinclair) than a fern or a diatom. People remembered the dinosaur symbol. Industrial surveys repeatedly rank the Sinclair dinosaur as one of the most potent symbols of American business. Remarkably high percentages identify the dinosaur with Sinclair. This association is positive and pleasant. There is almost no confusion between Sinclair's Dino and other corporate trademarks. Marketing experts agree that the dinosaur is a "powerful unifying and associating concept." the connotation penetrates deeply. Children are as fascinated with the pre-historic uniqueness of the dinosaurs as are adults and the correlation with Sinclair therefore begins at an early age. Few trademarks can equal Dino's unique appeals.
A series of advertisements in 104 newspapers featured dinosaurs. At the Chicago World's Fair exhibit -- 1933-1934 there seven life-size dinosaurs, two of which fought battle with horrendous sounds. 16 Million people viewed them. Magazines featured a dozen of the strange dinosaurs, from hideous-fanged tyrannosaurus rex and three-horned triceratops, to the Dealer's love Dino! This display was in Indianapolis . It featured an unaggressive, vegetarian apatosaurus (brontosaurus), a 40-ton lizard with neck and tail each 30 feet long. The campaign -- confined entirely to Wellsville oils -- was a great success. The curiosity value of it was tremendous.
Travelers also saw Dino on display in New York's Grand Central Terminal around 1944. The fact was Dino was a real glamour boy: a peace-loving but massive apatosaurus. The public equated him with power, endurance and stamina, the prime qualities of Sinclair products.
Without any particular promotion, the public accepted the apatosaurus affectionately as Sinclair's "Dino." He's been Dino ever since.
So people associate a dinosaur with oil. With the educational level America possesses, it isn't suprising that they believed oil was made from dinosaurs.
2007-10-26 05:17:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oil is not an imaginary product, it exists. I think you meant to say that the theory of where it comes from seems wrong.
Most people believe it comes from huge amounts of plant material accumulated over huge amounts of time. There is very good evidence of this, on different spots of the globe people use all stages of the material as sources of heat. Wood, peat, coal and petroleum all have the same primary source of energy in different stages of natural processes.
I never before heard that oil came from dinosaurs. People do say that oil comes from vegetation laid down in the time of dinosaurs (or earlier).
We will run out of oil not because dinosaurs went extinct but because petroleum is being consumed far faster then it is being formed. (If you want to see some oil starting to be processed go to some bayou areas in Louisiana.)
2007-10-26 05:36:07 · answer #3 · answered by dougger 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
fossil fuel like oil does not come from dinosaurs. rather most of it came from vegetation during the "Jurassic period" -that's the period when the dinosaurs ruled the earth. Yes we will run out of fossil fuel.
2007-10-26 03:48:10 · answer #4 · answered by chalcocite 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most oil is thought to come from phyto- and zooplankton in the marine realm. Another source of organic material is from plant detritus deposited at delta fronts...
Dinosaurs are NOT the source of oil.
And yes, there is much plankton available for this. For example, most of the oxygen on earth released via photosynthesis is NOT from the rainforests, but from phytoplankton in the oceans
2007-10-26 02:56:23 · answer #5 · answered by outcrop 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
fossil fuels are not only made up of dinosaurs, but from every organism that dies and decomposes. even humans i guess.
2007-10-29 10:54:15 · answer #6 · answered by Yaryos Y 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OIL DOES NOT COME FROM DINOSAURS, it is formed from marine orginisms and there were billions upon billions of them. (Douger is thinking of coal and peat etc, coming from plants) And no it will not last forever it is an exhaustable resource
2007-10-27 01:58:41 · answer #7 · answered by geo3598 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oil comes mostly from vegetation, some from animal matter. Oil is a nonrenewable energy source, since we use so much of it, so fast.
2007-10-26 02:30:17 · answer #8 · answered by Lionheart ® 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What? I don't understand the question.
Yes- fossil fuels come from the remains of the dinosaurs.
It is a non-renewable resource, obviously. We will run out of gas, probably, within about 25 years. I hate being pessimistic, but I am afraid that it's true.
2007-10-26 02:09:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
Oil comes from animals and coal from plant material.
2007-10-26 03:27:44 · answer #10 · answered by Petero 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋