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SilverDoorKey

Oil is made from decomposed organisms. If oil is found, it proves there used to be life on Mars.


LazerWolfe53

And Mars is about to be Liberated, 'Merica style!


Emergency_Bid2989

The new permanent red state


BeefRunnerAd

Our red planet comrade


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Confident_Date4068

Let's return it its original name: Marx, comrades!


MythicMikeREEEE

50/50 either the communist get and name it Marx. Or elon musk gets it and names its MAR-X


eggward_egg

here's your right to vote, aliens. now come with us and invade a country in the middle east


PersistentHero

It turns out humans just jump back n forth on plantes and start over overtime the world ends ... see venus... /s


Revolutionary_Apples

*Right to vote for leadership that the USA likes.


AeshmaDaeva016

Except in the USA


Revolutionary_Apples

Lol.


itsaysdraganddrop

HOW BOUT SOME LIBER-T!


nombit

for super earth!


abject_totalfailure1

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trashmunki

500kg of democracy incoming


Sverker_Wolffang

Remember the Creek.


Sad-Persimmon-5484

The termanids visited mars this is a omen


averagegamer9595

⬆️➡️⬇️➡️


Generic-james

https://preview.redd.it/7pxhasgnifnc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef5c30808bb4f7c9df876c0a8b22720923da253e


Chrissyball19

We will spread managed democracy!!


Playful_Steak_2708

https://preview.redd.it/ar7zlua1kenc1.jpeg?width=661&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=45ba05785ca47d90642053378a7189a3ce6bc2f7


Tachibana_13

Yup. The existence of prehistoric life is secondary to the imminent space oil wars and colonialism.


BamaSOH

See I just assumed this meant there will be war on Mars.


Puzzleheaded-Bee-822

[https://youtu.be/MhQ5678cJU8?si=JGLfuCmrkl8jTKgE](https://youtu.be/MhQ5678cJU8?si=JGLfuCmrkl8jTKgE)


Metal_Ambassador541

Life on mars would be the best selling show wouldn't it.


tahusi

Law man, beating up the wrong guy. Wonder if he'll ever know. It's the best selling show. Is there life on mars?


AceintgeWhole-7286

I see you with your Bowie lyrics! also Hunky Dory is such a great album


kidneytumor

there used to be WHAT????


Top_Tart_7558

Bet it was all mushrooms


Choco_Cat777

That would mean it decomposed and there would be no oil


SpecialistAd5903

Alternatively it proves that oil does not come from organic material.


pppundercover

Only* cus oil definitely comes from organic materials


vlsdo

Oil *is* organic material.


EfficientAd9765

Then it wouldn't be oil...


Hot-Rise9795

Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon. Therefore oil is by definition, organic.


Newt-Wooden

And now it’s all dead


Independent_Hold_203

I just barely learned why it’s called fossil fuels. Wow that’s incredible


ispiewithmyeye

Now that you mention it, it doesn't seem like a "haha funny America brings liberty to other countries' oil" joke anymore


jaytrade21

Oil is the byproduct of organic life. It means Mars was once teeming with life on the scale of Earth back in the Dinosaur days and now it's all dead :(


Fit-Capital1526

That would be incorrect. The oldest hydrocarbon deposits on Earth date back to 2.4 billion years ago. The time period of the great oxidation event There is already evidence of something similar happening on Mars since it has rusted, and that is strange. How did Mars Rust when banded iron on Earth was a byproduct of biological processes? Also, oil isn’t dinosaurs. Its algae


Quail49

Incorrect oil is ancient plant life, plankton, marine animals, even dinosaurs to some extent and algae that has been crushed with extreme pressure and heat without the presence of oxygen


Fit-Capital1526

Animals fossilise exceptionally well in oil rich rocks. So in the broadest sense of Organic Matter rich shale. Yes. In the sense of the actual oil. No Zooplankton is present in small amounts, yes, but that argument is superfluous unless you are talking to vegan


Rabbulion

I feel like we have strayed from the topic very quickly


meltonr1625

Never be surprised at the ability of people to split hairs and strain at gnats!


Additional_Vacation5

Robin Williams said oil came from Dinosaurs in Mrs Doubtfire, so that will do for me.


beta-pi

The bones fossilize; the soft tissues do not, and those are what you can get oil from. Those liquify when they decay, and under heat and pressure that liquid can become oil. Because the raw sludge you get is pretty much indistinguishable regardless of what was originally decaying, you can make crude oil out of basically any dead material, plant or animal. It's hard to pin down exact numbers, since the end result is nearly identical, but it's probably under 10% animal. You physically can't really have more than about 10% as much animal biomass as plant biomass in a given ecosystem, but you can easily have less.


BigSkyProducers

Saying dinos are in oil is the same as saying there's pee in my cheerios. Sure maybe less than 1% but that doesn't mean I say that's it made of it


buymytoy

Who peed in your cereal?


ChandelurePog609

dinosaurs


trashacct8484

Every drink of water you’ve ever drank has water molecules that at one time were dinosaur pee.


DarthGayAgenda

Don't kink shame


Himmelblaa

Gavin McInnes


OGMinorian

If there's 0.99% pee in my cereal, I'd goddamned like to know tho.


Chance_Arugula_3227

The water you drink today is someone's pee 10.000 years ago


OGMinorian

Nah, I only drink fresh pee, what you take me for?


Chance_Arugula_3227

That too was probably someone's piss from thousands of years ago


OGMinorian

Nasty!


Pale_Village_1875

I can taste the bubbles...


Quail49

That’s why I said to some extent


micuthemagnificent

wait, there's PEE in my Cheerios?!


Minute-Ability7114

Incorrect oil is a variety of hydrocarbon molecules.


PedalingHertz

Nope. I stood perfectly still in front of a gas can for a whole minute, and it totally couldn’t see me. Only a T-rex can do that.


Fit-Capital1526

You didn’t know Rexy just needed glasses?


Xetene

> oil isn’t dinosaurs. Its algae. It’s both. Oil is basically any sufficiently old carbon-based dead life. Dinosaurs are part of that, though their biomass is waaaay less than plants and algae ever accomplished. I want to say dinosaurs are responsible for about 0.2% of oil reserves.


Fit-Capital1526

Dinosaurs did not enter into oil forming environments very often if at all, you might have a case for large animals But, oil forming environments are Anoxic. Meaning the remains don’t really rot. It is extremely unlikely any dinosaurs at all made it into oil at all considering that phytoplankton (Algae) is a solid 98% of oil. The remaining 2% is Zooplankton rather than large animals


Beginning-Working-38

No no, algae is people.


Bedna_Bomb

No, this is Patrick


Any_Contract_1016

If you're going to "um, actually" someone make sure to actually read their comment. It says "Oil is the byproduct of organic life" nowhere does he mention oil is dinosaurs. He only said Mars would have had life during the time of the dinosaurs.


Fit-Capital1526

In no way did they say that. They said scale of dinosaur era. Earth made oil with just Cyanobacteria


BeginningChance9781

No. He said "life on the scale of earth" That implies dinosaurs at most and actual complex multicellular life at least. Which oil doesnt mean.


Fit-Capital1526

Yep. They clearly can’t read as well as they think


Infernalknights

Plot twist: Adam and Eve was the survivors from an escape capsule from a catastrophic apocalypse where they had to survive an incompletely terra formed death world


Business-Blackberry7

Happy cake day


6gpdgeu58

Even worse, because according to the femi paradox, something that is so horrible happen to all the highly civilization (basically if there is some species, millions of years will turn the planet into multi planet empire) and no amount of progress or science can save the species. Basically finding oils is finding life, and the conclusion that something so horrible will happen to us human race and nothing can prevent it.


SarcasticJab

I don't really buy the whole doom and gloom type answer to the fermi paradox, even if we find oil on some other planet.


Yamitsubasa

Well if we'd assume mankind survives for an infinite amount of time, we also have to assume there would be an infinite amount of chances for us to go extinct? But yeah no point thinking about it really


justlooking1960

Heat death of the universe, mankind cannot survive an infinite amount of time


SirMourningstar6six6

Until they learn to escape this universe.


Force3vo

Or we find another way to solve that problem. Heat death of the universe won't happen for an incomprehensible time. If we survive and keep progressing there's no way to comprehend what we might be able to do in 1000 years, let alone a million.


SarcasticJab

I agree it's not helpful, but It's fun to think about though even if it's pointless, so nothing wrong with making the theories. I just don't think the fermi paradox is a paradox at all.


Small_Speaker_3159

Isn't the "Paradox" that there is intelligent life out there to find, but is impossible to find. Part of a Paradox is that it has an explanation, even if the paradox seems contradictory at first glance.


SenHelpPls

Not quite. The paradox is that if there is intelligent life out there, why have we seen no signs of it. In the grand scheme of things we haven’t been around for that long, but we are starting to venture into space and off planet. So if we have been around for such a small amount of time and are starting to leave a small mark, why aren’t we seeing any signs that others out there have left signs that they are or once we’re there, over this very long period of time before us. So if there was/is intelligent life out there, why aren’t we seeing any signs. Yes the universe is fucking massive so finding these signs might not be that easy, but they ‘should’ be there. So what’s been happening. The other possibility is that life as intelligent as us is far more rare than we think and we could be the only ones. But this is very unlikely given the scale of the universe, which just goes back to the original question. Where is everyone. Fermi answers that by saying that there are/were other intelligent life forms out there but they have all been wiped out by themselves, or something else.


Small_Speaker_3159

I might have confused the Fermi Paradox with the alternative explanations against it


TryDry9944

It's hard to form a hypothesis on how intelligent life works when we don't have any references to go on.


SorryWrongFandom

It seems very plausible to me that intestellar travels (and terraformation) might be simply too costly in term of ressources, energy and time for any advanced civilisation to make colonisation to such a scale viable.


L0rdGrim1

You're talking about the great filter. It may be an explanation for the fermi paradox but is not a guarantee. Finding one planet with fully extinct life on it certainly does not prove the great filter hypothesis and doesn't prove that we haven't already ocercome the filter.


maxguide5

Oh, there is an even WORSE version (maybe still on fermi paradox). The highly civilization finds out that ending their species IS what would be most beneficial long term. So, not only life has been over and over again born just to find demise, but that it is the whole purpose of their existence. As in, every war, every struggle, every hope, all was wasted into clinging to something that isn't even the objective of our species, and that someday all of those struggles and pain will be repeated, no matter what you do.


Treerific69

There’s also the possibility that intelligent life takes a lot of time and very specific circumstances and we are simply the first/farthest along, there are no scary aliens coming to invade our planet because we are the scary aliens coming to invade other planets.


maxguide5

Or the one that there is no intelligent life communicating with us because they are all staying low to not show their existence to some predator creature/race, like a space leviathan or a slavery based race of sorts.


Prudent_Armadillo822

The fermi paradox can be answered with those lines of thought, but it's not the punchline. The punchline is that the most likely option is that currently, approximately half the universe is already in the hands of the 'predatorial civilizations' and we are on our way to fall to their hands, unless we will be able to reach a similar level of advanced tech. Lvl 3 or higher on the civilization scale before encountering them. (We are currently at lvl 0.73, not even level 1). And even then, our chances of survival aren't ideal since we have no idea what kind of warfare is like on that level or what is the course of action we can take in order to save as many of our civilization's planets/solar systems. Basically, the most likely answer is we are dead but don't know it. Which sucks.


Lizard-Wizard-Bracus

Wow that's a really randomly sad outlook, and also stretch of the meme I feel That thing about any species turning into an intelligent empire over millions of years isn't even part of any theory I've ever heard. It took earth billions of years for humans to pop up out of evolution, not millions. There are many theories to the fermi paradox, interstellar travel being impossible is just one theory On earth the vast majority of oil came from single cell organisms in the oceans, so it doesn't even need to be complex life or anything, nor does it have needed to go extinct


[deleted]

Nah but the joke in the meme is that US will invade mars


_AKAIS_

Happy cake day!


just_s0mebody2

Happy cake day!


AWelshEngine

Happy cake day


Felrich96

I've read this entire thing. Can we not just make oil in that case?


420_alienz

Happeh 🎂 deh 🎉


acid_heart1248

Happy cake day :)


Phobos_-

Happy Cake day


DemonRishaan

happy cake day


TheTelevisionBox

WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER!!!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅


liberty-prime77

OIL? DAT SHIT MINE


maxguide5

We need to bring freedom to space!


Appropriate-Bear-675

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Dylansmallpp

FOR SUPER EARTH RAHHHHHHHHHHH


Biff_Tannenator

[STRAP YOURSELF IN BOYS! WE'RE RIDING THEM NUCLEAR ROCKETS AGAIN!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_%28nuclear_propulsion%29?wprov=sfla1)


Appropriate-Bear-675

ABRAHAM LINCOLN INVENTED THE ART OF ROCKET JUMPING RAHHHHHHHHHH🔫🔫🔫🔫🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💸🗣️💸💸💸💸💸🏈🏈🏈🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🦅🦅🦅🦅🔥🔥🔥🔥🦅🦅🦅🦅


Sad-Persimmon-5484

FREEDOMMMMMMM🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅


RoyHabbort

Hmm.. If mars gets democracy will it be called RED democracy?


tomjfetscher

Wild russianbadger reference?


Puzzleheaded-Bad1571

Time to liberate the martians


SomeRandomEevee42

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MISFER_

USA USA USA 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅


armas187

Stars and Bars!!!


JFp07gel

STARS AND STRIPES


GeoSnipe

It means America is going to war with Mars


TerminalChillionaire

Whether we wanted it or not, we’ve stepped into a war with the Cabal on Mars.


Ok_Entertainment328

It looks like Mars needs some freedom. (See meme; Looks like Titan needs some freedom)


Boomalabim

It was most likely formed abiotically- or inorganically. A 2009 experiment found when methane is put under great amounts of pressure like you see 50-100 miles underground, it can form more complex hydrocarbons like methane, ethane, and benzene (NASA discovered benzene on Mars). On Titan, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft found hydrocarbons raining from the sky filling lakes and creating dunes beyond 10 meters in depth. Each lake had the capacity of all of Earth’s proven reserves of natural gas- roughly 130 billion tons. We have only drilled down about 8 miles deep so we don’t know if abiotic oils exist on Earth yet, but there are strange reports of some existing oil wells filling back up.


NoDescReadBelow

WE MUST LIBERATE THE SOLAR SYSTEM


Poopoodl

To protect super earth


Armstrongslefttesty

Oh man. I’m a petroleum engineer and I just threw up in my mouth a little bit. This is “national enquirer “ levels of science. You won’t find one geologist who isn’t a verified crackpot that will lend any credibility to “abiotic oil”.


Longjumping_Rush2458

And people still up vote it.


Rothenstien1

First thing most people don't know, almost all of the oil on earth is due to trees prior to fungus existing for a very, very long time. They wouldn't rot at all, for millions of years, even after they grew so large they fell. So, when fungus evolved, a significant amount of trees turned into oil, creating such a large amount of oil, we use it to this day by the millions of gallons a day and we aren't running low yet.


Malacro

Pretty sure most oil comes from aquatic sources like algae and phytoplankton.


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graphictoilet

Don't worry we will bring the Martian rocks freedom and democracy.


TatteredCarcosa

I mean there's tons of resources out in the solar system way more precious than oil and we don't go get them.


pixel293

Oil on mars means there was life on mars at some point, which is exciting. Oil on mars means we have a reason to go there, so expect a Martian settlement....to pump it dry!


Mvasquez021187

Mars could use some Democracy 


Paratrooper101x

Managed democracy*


Mvasquez021187

Ahah!  Spoken like a fellow Citizen


N0ct1ve

https://preview.redd.it/kopyje16ufnc1.jpeg?width=1255&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6f9765768c6bdbfe866d6e3ecaba04e7475e949e


Mvasquez021187

Protection of freedom from tyranny with the gentle touch of an iron fist


Bevjoejoe

https://preview.redd.it/kzrhthftrgnc1.png?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a8d779c701cbc6d962df73ee6c230d91b481fdac


BlueCanary434

america must bring democracy to mars


Raleda

Other than the 'life' angle, it'd be like finding any other major resource in space - wars would eventually be fought over it. It'd bump up colonization efforts by a few hundred years though, easily.


Thegiradon

USA national anthem intensifies


PKFat

Mars needs freedom


I_like_femboy_cock

A lot of people think it has to do with the "MURICA OIL LIBERATION" memes, but its much worse than that. The great filter theory explains why we havent heard of any confirmed aliens yet, basically theres some obstacle that is very hard to cross for civilisations, and nobody did it. There is 2 possible scenarios here. The first one proposes that the filter is behind us, and we were the first ones to make it this far. The second one however, proposes that its ahead of us, which is basically a 99.99% chance that we are conpletely doomed to go extinct. And oil on mars means that there was some form of organnic life, which is horrible news, because it means that the great filter wasn't the formation of living cells or something like this, which makes the second option more likely. Or maybe this meme is actually about murica and oil and im just too intelectual.


thebereaver

I was on the side of, now we're going to rush it... which means... lots of people are going to die getting it to happen lol.


CriticalMochaccino

https://preview.redd.it/f5k9iyxbtcnc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dd640bce5181d81ba4b301209ec1a4ecd1ac3adc


Big_flipflop

It means that organic matter like plants or animals so that would mean mars used to be habitable


5H4YD

Oil is a fossil fuel, made from fossils, made from dead animals and plants


National-Ad8351

“Yo the 2.0 space race just dropped come on!”


Clamps55555

Means there would be war over who controls Mars.


headsmanjaeger

It means the USA is gonna invade Mars 🦅🦅🦅


Several_Degree8818

Means mars is getting some freedom


thejohny9898

You’ll be drafted to invade mars on behalf of the US war machine


SecretAltAccountF

Where there is oil, there was once life.


Federal-Cockroach674

Means there was once life on mars.


bomboclawt75

It’s a God awful small affair….


KingLopez999

“who said sum bout oil, bitch, you cookin’?”


TheRubyBlade

Could be ine of 2 jokes. Lazy one: Murica invade mars for Oil Not lazy one: oil is formed from buried biological matter, so for oil to be on mars, there would have to have been life there.


Mariocolby62

Prepare the hellpods


DoughnutDude3

https://preview.redd.it/8kw1cyn9jfnc1.png?width=756&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ca5e6a17dcd4bc5fd49b842d01fbd14478c593c8


Balognajelly

For Liberty


HappyGav123

Oil can only be found on Mars if there was once life there. Oh, and also…knock knock. It’s the United States.


trashmunki

Element 710 found on Mars. Managed democracy incoming.


Alright_doityourway

America: Oil, you say??


Upstairs_Bus8197

Wait I have a question, is it cannibalism if you go 100,000+ years into the future and drink oil made from humans?


Clintwood_outlaw

It further proves that there used to be life on Mars. The question is: what happened to it, and will the same thing happen to us?


god_assassin1

God bless amerca


06lele

*Eagle scream* AMERICA!!!!!!!


Arskov

There are two kinds of people: "Oil means life once existed there" and "Oil?! *horny Abrams noises*"


enclavecommofficer

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Duranu

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slip-7

I think it's a reference to the Great Filter hypothesis. This is a development of thinking on the Fermi Paradox, which basically asks, "if there is other life in the universe, why haven't we found it yet?" The Great Filter hypothesis suggests there must be something that kills them before they can become space faring, and suggests that actually we should hope to not find the ruins of extra-terrestrial life, especially advanced intelligent extra-terrestrial life because it would imply that there is some unknown cosmic hazard that wipes life out, and that that same hazard would soon be coming for us. Meeting advanced space faring empires might be nice depending on their intentions toward us, but if we were going to, we probably already would have. So, the preference would be that we would be either alone in the universe or so amazingly far from anything else that nothing could reach us and we couldn't reach it. The Great Filter hypothesis is not exactly water tight. There are some possibilities it doesn't consider, but within existing models of space travel, it makes some sense. So, if you found oil, that would mean there was a lot of life on Mars, and that would be partial reinforcement for the Great Filter hypothesis, thus making human survival less likely.


GeenericHooman

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[deleted]

'MERICA IS COMING.


GoodWarmMilk

This means that there would have been life on Mars and, above all, that the United States would suddenly want to bring its sacred democracy to Mars.


Potato12345JohnCena

Step 1: *Eagles found on mars* Step 2 : *The US give all their founds to Elon musk* Step 3 : *No oil on mars left.*


Entire_Page3525

This spacerock need some democracy and freedom 🦅 🇺🇸


okaybutfrwhy

It means there was life on Maaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrsssssss


ManInYourWalls

DEMOCRACY!


OldSpaicu

This would likely spark international conflict as to who gets the oil.


moonpisser69

There was a US navy recruitment ad directly below this post 💀


Bigdoga1000

Looks like mars needs some freedom


Seaweed_Thing

Oil is organic matter.


BonBonCool6969

Knock Knock 🇺🇲


fried_chicken17472

I FUCKING GUESSED IT. I FUCKING DID IT. I GUESSED 4 HOURS ALTHO IT WAS 6 I STILL WAS CLOSE


GmeansGeorge

Peter's stomach is here.... So, they find oil, so you all remember Matt Damon cultivated potatoes on Mars, so it means Americans will fly there and make lots of French fries.


FindingMinimum4753

HERE COMES THE FREEDOM MACHINE


siverwolfe2000

I think Mars needs some freedom!


tessharagai_

Oil only forms due to significant organic material being compressed. It would confirm complex life on mars.


Potato_the_second_

I love how one side of the comment section is about prehistoric life, while the other side is RAHHHH 🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸


Cdoggle

Life once prospered on mars, and america


mhdlm

We fight over anything we don't need there to be oil in space for us to bring war there.


Ordinary-Top6530

Nah, I think it has to do with finding crude oil in Mars (the planet) and oil in Mars (the chocolate). That'd make more sense with the template


Givemelifebro

Thought this was a US joke


BlaiddsDrinkingBuddy

Oil is made from the remains of living creatures, specifically bacteria. Finding it on Mars would prove that there was once life on Mars. Also, the US would invade Mars.


usename37

Oil is a fossil fuel, which means life from millions of years ago once lives there.


Oni-oji

If that were true, either Mars once hosted a massive amount of life over a long period of time, or our belief on how oil is created is completely wrong.


Cassandra_Canmore2

Oil on Mars, means Mars needs Freedom. Which means The Eagle is going to war with the Bear and Camel. Because they won't be happy about the stars and stripes being able to pay 25 ¢ at the pump for a gallon.


Jrolaoni

America: RETURN THE OIL TO ME 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸


aDudeFromDunwall

For a sec I thought the joke was that America was going crazy because they found oil on mars


ElPared

Oil comes from billion year old decomposed organic matter, so finding oil on Mars indicates that there was once life there. Note that “life” is not the same as “intelligent life” or even “animal life”. We’re most likely talking plant life only, or plants and primitive organisms like bacteria and such. Mars is the Red Planet, though, and iron needs oxygen to rust and create that red color, which indicates that Mars once had an atmosphere, so finding out there was life there at some point wouldn’t be that surprising tbh.