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• gergolippai@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And iirc it’s something like 500m deep… absolutely awesome human achievement apart from the tiny little problems with it (it keeps eating up neighboring villages plus it produces brown coal which is the worst kind, environmentally speaking)

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  • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It really is a funny feeling, where it looks genuinely awesome (in the literal sense) but at the same time is also horrifically destructive

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    • gergolippai@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Exactly that!

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  • Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Also destroyed one of germanys oldest forests

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• bob_lemon@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Don’t worry, they will fill it with water once they are done mining. It’ll take about 40 years to fill though, between ground water and extracting water from the Rhine river.

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