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Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’ (www.theguardian.com)

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Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach

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[–] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 228 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You only have to lay a cable down once and it'll work for however many decades. People trudging through on a regular basis to leave rocks would be an ongoing concern.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This assumes a lot of things about the installation and longevity of the cable and its jacket, and forgets that some of these things have been so magnetically interfering to their surroundings that sharks have bitten them.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

To be fair, sharks bite a lot of things.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This sounds a bit cliche, or like just a joke, but it's really quite true.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Haha yeah, it sounds like a joke doesn’t it. I was thinking of the shark that’s known for eating license plates and nails. Or the one that eats car tires.