We need to be talking about dinosaurs way more. @J@JackCoyne
Summary
A straphanger drops an absolute mind-bender: we need to be talking about dinosaurs way more. Kareem agrees. The conversation spirals gloriously as they debate whether dinosaurs are even real or just "in the same category as ghosts," whether they're lizards or birds, and why adults get stuck with kids' books while children waste their dinosaur knowledge on youth. Things escalate. They compare dinosaurs to blue whales, which apparently used to be deer. Then comes the revelation: "OH, I JUST REALIZED THAT'S WHY THEY'RE CALLED FOSSIL FUELS." Gasoline comes from dinosaurs. So does plastic. The epiphany hits hard. Maybe if people were more sympathetic to dinosaurs, we wouldn't be destroying the planet with their liquefied remains.
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So, what's your take? We need to be talking about dinosaurs way more.
100% agree. You think about them all the time when you're a little kid. It's wasted on the youth. We need to stop telling kids about dinosaurs, and you need to wait until you're like 18, cuz then you would be able to take it seriously. Dinosaurs are insane.
Dinosaur mythical creatures.
First of all, are dinosaurs even real? Did they really happen? Or is it just like a made-up thing? I don't know.
They were in the same category as ghosts. Like, it's like a Halloween thing. Like why do so many people think the earth is flat but nobody's questioning dinosaurs? Cuz there was fossils. There was fossils man.
Yeah, but they could be fake. Some people say the earth is only 6,000 years old and the dinosaurs are God put them there to test your faith.
What? That is a thing that people say.
What are you see? There's certain like kind of fundamentalist groups that believe that yes, there are fossils, but that's because it's a test to confuse us so that you don't like believe in like the true word of God. It's like so some people do think that the fossils were are fake.
Do you agree with me that we need to talk about them more? I love dinosaurs.
Do you think about them a lot? Yeah, constantly.
What are you thinking about? Big lizard.
Are they lizards though? Cuz people say they're like birds. They're cousins.
It's confusing. Well, just like read more dude. I need to read more. But there's there aren't a lot of books. They're kids books.
Jurassic Park is not a book for kids. But Jurassic Park is made up. That's what I'm saying. It's confusing.
You know who was thinking about dinosaurs? Michael Crichton. Michael Crichton.
That's the guy who wrote Jurassic Park. He also wrote Eros.
You can't buy dinosaurs. You can buy dinosaurs.
Buy dinosaurs. You can't buy dinosaurs. You can buy fossils.
There's a whole black market for this. You can sincerely buy anything you want. You can. If you got enough money, you can buy all the damn fossils you want. You can buy dinosaur egg and you try to put it under a heat lamp hoping to bring it back to life. I think they're real. If blue whales are real, then they got to be real. Blue whales are dinosaurs.
And they used to be here. What?
Blue whale like history. They were fish, you know, mammals in the water. They left the water, grew legs and stuff, and then they were like, "This I'm going back." Blue whales came out of the water and became dinosaurs.
Well, they came out became like deer. Blue whales were a deer. Yeah.
I I I don't agree with the rest of that part. This guy knows so much about dinosaurs. I love this. Another thing, gasoline comes from dinosaurs.
Correct. Correct. CORRECT. GASOLINE DINOSAURS.
OH, I JUST REALIZED THAT'S WHY THEY'RE CALLED FOSSIL FUELS. Oh my God. Are you kidding me?
If people were a little bit more sympathetic to the dinosaurs, maybe we wouldn't be using gas. I THOUGHT THEY JUST CALL IT FOSSIL FUEL. IT'S LITERALLY—
PLASTIC. Dinosaurs are also made out of dinosaur because it's a plastic product. Holy—