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..."
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Hmmm its got me thinking. How many mommoths does it take to fill up my car? How much biomass was it before it turned into oil?
Like maybe 10 mammoths? Maybe just 1? Or maybe 1000?!
Maybe we can use dead people to start making new oil? I mean, grave yards usually take up very valuable real estate anyway, and they are growing in size exponentially all the time. We need to start being realistic about the dead. How long does it take for someone to turn into gas anyway? Like 1000 years?
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.
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.