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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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[–] 246 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Fans of the wizard series come to leave stones reading “Here Lies Dobby” despite being asked not to by the land owner, the National Trust, because the beach is an ecologically sensitive site.

But apparently not so ecologically sensitive that an undersea cable couldn't run through it.

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  • [–] 225 points 3 months ago (4 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.

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  • [–] 28 points 3 months ago (3 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.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    To be fair, sharks bite a lot of things.

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