Cosmic Horror
A community to discuss Cosmic Horror in it's many forms; books, films, comics, art, TV, music, RPGs, video games etc.
"cosmic horror... is a subgenre of horror fiction and weird fiction that emphasizes the horror of the unknowable and incomprehensible more than gore or other elements of shock... themes of cosmic dread, forbidden and dangerous knowledge, madness, non-human influences on humanity, religion and superstition, fate and inevitability, and the risks associated with scientific discoveries... the sense that ordinary life is a thin shell over a reality that is so alien and abstract in comparison that merely contemplating it would damage the sanity of the ordinary person, insignificance and powerlessness at the cosmic scale..."
- Wikipedia
#Horror, #Cosmic Horror, #science fiction,
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Relevant xkcd https://what-if.xkcd.com/101/
It's not dinosaurs, oil is mostly sea stuff like plankton and algae. Coal is mostly land vegetation, trees.
Dinosaurs didn't really contribute much to this pool.
Still, people can be good for Soylent Green though.
I guess maybe not by comparison, but imagine all the millions of years and millions of generations of gaint (and small) dinosaurs that lived lived and died. Thats a Hella Lotta biomass biodegrading.