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August 11, 2026, 10:05 AM
mjlennon
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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
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Originally posted by konata88: Important question: is that the gravesite as depicted in the book? Or as depicted in the movies which may have taken some locational liberties. <snip>
“In the Harry Potter story, Dobby is buried in the garden of Shell Cottage. In the real world, the movie scene was filmed at Freshwater West Beach in Pembrokeshire, Wales, where fans built a popular commemorative site in the sand dunes.”
Wait, we're changing construction plans for a fictitious gravesite twice removed from reality?
Look, wife and I took our grown daughter to Universal last year to do, among other things, Harry Potter. Whom I barely know who that is. To prepare I think I watched the first two movies. Look, it's all great fun, but it's just a movie, before that it was a book and before that an idea. We had fun, but it was pricy.
I work in the construction business, and there's one all present need when faced with change. Who pays for it? I can promise you this, Harry Potter fans the world over did not perform a fund raising campaign. The contractor would unlikely be willing to do so out the kindness and generosity of their heart. Yep, you guessed it, the owner.
In this case, however, since the change was made while still in design phase, there was no appreciable increase in the cost of the $580 million project other than tweaking the design. It added no length to the 125 mile cable. Again, that cost was borne by Greenlink Interconnector Ltd.
August 11, 2026, 10:10 AM
HRK
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Again, that cost was borne by Greenlink Interconnector Ltd.
Who knows, the CEO's grandkids could be HP fans... and he got a lot of press for free, could be friends of JK Rowling too!
August 11, 2026, 10:15 AM
PHPaul
In addition to the obviously ridiculous initial premise, it brings to my mind another question:
England has enough excess power production to make running a cable to Ireland cheaper/more practical than just building a power plant IN Ireland?
Da fuq?
If it's the Green Energy wackos behind it, then make it a wind farm.
Oh. Wait. NIMBY, right?
Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent.
August 11, 2026, 11:03 PM
tatortodd
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Originally posted by MNSIG:
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Originally posted by tatortodd: I'm not talking the little toys HDD machines that lay fiber optic through neighborhoods, I'm talking the big machines with millions of pounds of pullback. For example, here is a pic from the HDD drill site that set the current world record at 4102m under a river in India where they went 47m under the river.
How in the heck do they get that to go straight and not pop up half a mile from the intended connection?
Straight is easy. They can steer left, right, up, and down. Some of the drillhead tracking technology on big oil & gas drills is owned by DARPA and is a civilian application of guided missile technology.
Here is a good 2 min video:
If you want a more in-depth explanation, here is a more detailed 15 min video:
Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity
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